Red Sea – Red Square – Red Thread. A Philosophical Detective Story
Virtual Event
New book by leading scholar Lydia Goehr, in conversation with Steven Gerrard and Daniel Herwitz.
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Londoni Pódium Cabaret
Liszt Institute 17 Cockspur Street, London, United KingdomAn immersive tribute to the 1930s uniquely Budapester humour as presented in London by Hungarian Jewish émigrés a hundred years ago.
A conversation with Jas Elsner on the art of his father, Dante Elsner
Camden Image Gallery 174 Royal College Street, LondonA conversation with Jas Elsner on the art of his father, Dante Elsner
‘Following Dante’ – Maia Elsner Poetry Reading
Camden Image Gallery 174 Royal College Street, LondonPoet, Maia Elsner, will be reading past work and new pieces inspired by the art of her grandfather, the late Dante Elsner (1920-1997)
Stolperstein for Ada (Anna) van Dantzig
3 Golden Square London, United KingdomCeremony to lay a Stolperstein for Dutch-Jewish paintings conservator Ada (Anna) van Dantzig
Charlotte Salomon: A Life Before Auschwitz Lecture
Virtual Event
Charlotte Salomon (1917-1943):
A Life Before Auschwitz
Lecture by Monica Bohm-Duchen
Marginalised Spaces and Émigré Artists
Virtual Event
The second in a series of summer research seminars on The Arts of Postwar Britain 1945–1965 with Sheridan Palmer and Jane Eckett
Remembering Ervin Bossányi, Stained Glass Artist
Liszt Institute London 17-19 Cockspur Street, London, United KingdomTribute to Hungarian-born stained glass artist Ervin Bossányi, best known for the windows he created for Canterbury Cathedral.
Barbed Wire University – A talk by Dave Hannigan
Virtual Event
A talk about The Untold Story of the Interned Jewish Intellectuals Who Turned an Island Prison into the Most Remarkable School in the World
Jussuf Abbo – re-constructing the life and work of a forgotten artist
Virtual Event
A talk by Dorothea Schöne about Jussuf, Abbo, a fascinating but still too little-known émigré artist, who died in London in 1953.
Get the Children Out! Unsung Heroes of the Kindertransport
Virtual Event
Holocaust researcher and educator Mike Levy talking about his recent book, Get the Children Out! Unsung Heroes of the Kindertransport
Gallery Tour: Postwar Modern
Virtual Event
Art historian and Insiders/Outsiders founding director Monica Bohm-Duchen gives a tour of the Barbican Centre’s fascinating exhibition, Postwar Modern: New Art in Britain, 1945-1965.
*POSTPONED* Rozsa’s Wish and The Angel of Chomutov: Two New Works by Marilyn Herman
Virtual Event
Composer Marilyn Herman introduces a video-recorded recital of two brand new works relating to her family’s tragic wartime history
Film Event: Still Haunted by History
Birkbeck 43 Gordon Square, London, United KingdomThe film-makers will be present to participate in a Q&A after each screening, and the evening will conclude with a panel discussion
Walking Tour – Modernist Hampstead
Forecourt outside Wagamamma 58-62 Heath Street, London, United KingdomIn this walking tour we'll discover the revolutionary Modernist homes and idealistic architecture built in Hampstead in the 1930s onwards
£9 – £12
Airbrushed: The story of a family lost and found. A talk by Fanny Mills
Virtual Event
Playwright and author Fanny Mills will speak about the hidden story of her family which had always shadowed her life.
Lunchtime Lecture: The Émigrés Who Transformed the British Art World
Virtual Event
Get to know the émigrés who, having fled Nazi Europe, embraced the future and introduced avant-garde European and British artists to the public and press.
Erna Pinner’s Graphic and Literary Production in London Exile: An Example of Cultural and Ideological Transference
Virtual Event
This seminar focuses on the analysis of Erna Pinner's graphic and literary work, with particular emphasis on how the ideological discourse that influenced her work during the interwar period is transferred to her artistic production during her years of exile in London.