Mann at War
Manx Museum Manx Museum, Douglas, Isle of Man, United KingdomThe role that the Isle of Man and its people have played in conflict from the 18th Century to present day
Free
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The Art of Eugene Halliday and Käthe Schuftan
Tan-y-Garth Hall Retreat Pontfadog, Llangollen, North Wales, United KingdomKäthe Schuftan was a Jewish artist who escaped from Berlin in June 1939. Her work was linked with both Käthe Kollwitz and the Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) movement, including Otto Dix and George Grosz.
Selected dates from September to April
Free
Art Aiding Politics: Hampstead in the 1930s and ’40s
Burgh House and Hampstead Museum Burgh House, New End Square, London, United KingdomHampstead has been a place of refuge, reflection and community for centuries. This exhibition aims to show the response of some of its most creative residents to the tumultuous political events of the early twentieth century; from the Spanish Civil War to the rise of the Nazi party and the outbreak of the Second World War and beyond.
Free
Marie-Louise von Motesiczky
Tate Britain Millbank, London, London, United KingdomThis free display covers the life and work of Marie-Louise von Motesiczky alongside other émigrés who escaped Nazi Europe for the relative safety of Britain.
Free
Refuge and Renewal: Migration and British Art
Royal West of England Academy Queens Road, Bristol, United KingdomArtist refugees in the last hundred years and their influence on British art
Child Survivors’ Drawings of the Genocide in Darfur
The Wiener Library 29 Russell Square, London, United KingdomThis exhibition features drawings by child survivors of the genocide and ethnic cleansing perpetrated by Sudanese government forces and the Janjaweed militia against non-Arab Darfuri people since 2003.
Free
George Him: A Polish Designer for Mid-Century Britain
The House of Illustration 2 Granary Square, Kings Cross, London, London, United KingdomSpanning George Him’s long and versatile career as both an independent designer and as one half of the prolific Lewitt-Him partnership (1933-1954), the exhibition will include iconic wartime propaganda posters for the Ministries of Food and Information, corporate branding for El Al airlines and adverts for clients like Schweppes, Technicolor, the Post Office and The Times.
Dissent and Displacement: A Modern Story – Monica Petzal and Margarete Klopfleisch
New Walk Museum and Art Gallery 53 New Walk, Leicester, Leicester, United KingdomAn exhibition in two parts: wall-mounted prints by Monica Petzal; and sculptures and works on paper by Margarete Klopfleisch
*Postponed* Another Eye: Women Refugee Photographers in Britain after 1933
Four Corners Gallery 121 Roman Road, London, United KingdomThis Women's History Month, we celebrate some remarkable women who escaped Nazi persecution and helped to transform Britain’s photography scene.
Farewell to Vienna: A New Beginning
JW3 341-351 Finchley Road, London, United KingdomJoin Ensemble Burletta on a journey from the Vienna of Mozart and Brahms, to the dark days of pre-war Austria and the flight of Jewish-born nationals from the Nazi regime.
£17
How ‘the most dangerous spy in history’ was recruited in Hampstead
Burgh House and Hampstead Museum Burgh House, New End Square, London, United KingdomFor the Kuczynskis, fighting fascism by helping the KGB was a Hampstead family business.
£8
Naum Gabo
Tate St.Ives Porthmeor Beach, St Ives, Cornwall, United KingdomTate St Ives presents this major exhibition of one of the pioneers of constructivism, Naum Gabo.
Jacques & Jacqueline Groag: Architect & Designer
The Isokon Gallery Lawn Road, London, United KingdomJacques Groag, architect and furniture designer, and Jacqueline Groag, textile and pattern designer, were two celebrated residents of the Isokon building in the 1940s and early 1950s.
Modernist Hampstead Walk
Hampstead Tube Station Hampstead High Street, London, London, United KingdomDiscover the revolutionary Modernist homes and idealistic architecture built in Hampstead in the 1930s
£9 – £12
A Celebration of the Life and Work of Eva Ibbotson
Kings Place 90 York Way, London, United KingdomTo celebrate the reissuing of three of her adult novels - among them The Morning Gift and The Secret Countess - featuring Jewish heroines, and ahead of a forthcoming biography, her friends and colleagues Nicola Beauman, Amanda Craig and Marian Lloyd discuss her writing and her legacy.
£9.50
The Fashion Revolution: From Berlin to London
Kings Place 90 York Way, London, United KingdomA panel discussion focussing on two new publications, with Daniel Snowman, Michael Gee, Uwe Westphal, author of Fashion Metropolis Berlin1836-1939: The Story of the Rise and Destruction of the Jewish Fashion Industry and Anna Nyburg, author of The Clothes on our Backs: How Refugees from Nazism Revitalised the British Fashion Trade.
£14.50
Between Two Worlds
Buxton Museum and Art Gallery Terrace Road, Buxton, United KingdomBetween Two Worlds explores the art created during this tumultuous period featuring work by John Minton, Fred Uhlman, Josef Herman and Ben Enwonwu. It draws exhibits from Derbyshire County Council’s collection, such as the bequest of Arto Funduklian, the son of Armenian émigrés, including work by Marc Chagall, Duncan Grant and Wyndham Lewis.
Emigration, Displacement, and Art: Testimonies from the AJR Refugee Voices
University of Leicester University Road, Leicester, United KingdomThe seminar is part of Refugee Week Breaking Barriers as well as the “Dissent and Displacement” Public Seminar Series.