Isokon and the Bauhaus in Britain: Talk with authors Leyla Daybelge and Magnus Englund

Daunt Books 51 South End Road, London, United Kingdom

The hugely influential Lawn Road Flats, or Isokon building, was commissioned by visionary couple Jack and Molly Pritchard and designed by architect Wells Coates. Isokon and the Bauhaus in Britain (Batsford) by Leyla Daybelge and Magnus Englund tells the extraordinary story of Isokon, and how its network of residents helped shape modern Britain.

£5

Four Parts of a Folding Screen

Birkbeck Cinema 43 Gordon Square, London, United Kingdom

Based on documents found in Berlin archives, Four Parts of a Folding Screen explores exclusion, statelessness and the legalised theft and sale of everyday family possessions by the National Socialist regime.

Hans Keller Centenary Celebration

Clare Hall Herschel Road, Cambridge, Cambridge

Cambridge University Library (home of the Hans Keller Archive), the Faculty of Music and Clare Hall combine in a day of talks, discussion and music celebrating Hans Keller’s Centenary.

Talk: ‘Albert Reuss in Mousehole, The Artist As Refugee’

Royal Cornwall Museum River Street, Truro, Cornwall, United Kingdom

Albert Reuss (1889-1975) was a Jewish émigré artist. Born in Vienna, he fled to England in 1938 to escape Nazi persecution, losing family, possessions and his reputation as an artist. In 1948, he moved to Mousehole, Cornwall, where he continued to work as an artist, but his style changed dramatically, reflecting the trauma he had suffered.

£4 – £7

“Child Migrants Welcome?”

Migration Museum at The Workshop 26 Lambeth High Street, London, United Kingdom

Come to the screening of a series of short films about the welcome and non-welcome experienced by young people who have migrated to the UK – from Syrian children on the Isle of Bute in Scotland, to Iraqi Kurdish youth in Norwich, to Eritreans in Harrow and Polish children in Sidmouth.

£5 – £8.97

A Celebration of Czechoslovak Culture in Wartime Britain

University of London Senate House Room 243, Malet Street, London, London, United Kingdom

Senate House, University of London Aspects of Exile This series of lectures, running from February to December 2019, will be given by members of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies, based at the Institute for Modern Languages Research, University of London, who all have a strong interest in German-speaking exile from Nazism. The lectures cover a broad…

Free

London’s Czechoslovak Institute during World War II

University of London Senate House Room 243, Malet Street, London, London, United Kingdom

Lecture given by member of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies, based at the Institute for Modern Languages Research, University of London

Free

Modernist Hampstead Walk

Hampstead Tube Station Hampstead High Street, London, London, United Kingdom

Discover the revolutionary Modernist homes and idealistic architecture built in Hampstead in the 1930s

£9 – £12

Great British Jews: A Celebration – Curator talk

Jewish Museum London Raymond Burton House 129-131 Albert Street, London, United Kingdom

This playful exhibition celebrates the huge contribution that Jews have made to this country across a variety of cultural, scientific and commercial fields.

Free

Talk: ‘Albert Reuss in Mousehole, The Artist As Refugee’

Penlee House Gallery & Museum Morrab Road, Penzance, Cornwall, United Kingdom

Albert Reuss (1889-1975) was a Jewish émigré artist. Born in Vienna, he fled to England in 1938 to escape Nazi persecution, losing family, possessions and his reputation as an artist. In 1948, he moved to Mousehole, Cornwall, where he continued to work as an artist, but his style changed dramatically, reflecting the trauma he had suffered.

£3 – £4

Anna Freud and the Conscience of Society

Freud Museum London 20 Maresfield Gardens, London, United Kingdom

Drawing on a wealth of still and video archival materials, this new digital exhibit brings to life the fascinating intersection of psychoanalysis and education.

£8 – £10

The Laban Lecture

The Place 17 Duke's Road, London, United Kingdom

Every year The Laban Guild celebrates the legacy of Rudolf Laban through a lecture from a leading academic or practitioner who actively promotes the work and heritage of this modern dance pioneer, who took refuge in the UK from Germany in 1938. This is part of the annual conference /AGM

£25 – £95

Marie-Louise von Motesiczky: The Forgotten Expressionist

New Walk Museum and Art Gallery 53 New Walk, Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom

Join us for a special lecture on the artist on Sunday 28th April – ‘Marie-Louise von Motesiczky: The Forgotten Expressionist’, given by Dr Ines Schlenker. Please note: this event was previously scheduled for Sunday 24th March.

£4.50

Showcasing Art History: Britain ∩ Europe

Courtauld Institute of Art, Vernon Square Campus Penton Rise, London, Kings Cross, United Kingdom

Encounters in Art: Refugees from Nazi Europe and their Contribution to British Visual Culture