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SUMMARY:Taking Sides: Bobby Carter\, Godfrey Samuel and the Refugee Architects
DESCRIPTION:Valeria Carullo\, Curator\, The Robert Elwall Photographs Collection at RIBA British Architectural Library\, will talk about her ongoing researches into the important role played by Bobby Carter and Godfrey Samuel of the RIBA Refugee Committee in rescuing their fellow architects from the clutches of the Nazi regime during the late 1930s. \nFollowing the rise of Nazi Germany and the related tumultuous political events of the 1930s\, the number of requests for admission to Britain from architects based in Central Europe rose sharply at the end of the decade. The conditions required to be considered for residence and job permits did not make their task easy: the country’s immigration laws at the time did not make any distinction based on the circumstances of emigration. Additionally\, would-be émigrés needed either a Guarantor or proof to be self-supporting. The general feeling towards refugees was also influenced by a certain degree of antisemitism\, and the fear that foreigners would compete for the same jobs in a period of economic depression. \nIn this difficult climate a number of figures in the British architectural establishment became points of reference for architects who were trying to leave their countries of origin: arguably more than anyone else\, Edward ‘Bobby’ Carter\, RIBA Librarian\, and architect Godfrey Samuel tirelessly devoted time and effort to assist their Central European colleagues and help them find a future devoid of oppression and discrimination. \nTo book\, click here or scan the QR code \n \n  \nImage: Left to right: Serge Chermayeff\, Godfrey Samuel and Bobby Carter © RIBA Collections \n  \n\nInsiders/Outsiders was a year-long nationwide arts festival celebrating the indelible contribution of refugees from Nazi-dominated Europe to British culture. Coinciding with the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of World War Two\, the festival included exhibitions\, concerts\, dance and theatre performances\, film screenings\, walks\, lectures and literary events.\nA substantial companion volume to the festival is published by Lund Humphries.
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/taking-sides-bobby-carter-godfrey-samuel-and-the-refugee-architects/
CATEGORIES:Architecture,Artforms
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SUMMARY:Gardens of Culture: Visionen und experimentelle Projekte für eine Zukunft
DESCRIPTION:This conference explores artistic and utopian communities and places of education and will be introducing Santiniketan in India\, Dartington Hall in Devon and the ‘Republic’ in Albania and Akademia in Paris. Also newly emerging places\, such as the Performing Arts Forum in St. Erme and O Espaço do Tempo in Montemor-o-Novo will be featured and discussed. \nHosted at Warburg Haus\, Hamburg this two-day event will present illustrated talks\, narrative photography and film screenings. The conference takes place in-person but can also be accessed via Zoom. \nThe organisers KOÏNZI-DANCE e. V. are asking for donations: \n40 EUR at Warburg Haus\, Hamburg in person \n30 EUR for online participation via Zoom \n9 EUR for additional film screenings \nTo book\, please email karten@koinzi.de and specify how you would like to take part.
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/gardens-of-culture-visionen-und-experimentelle-projekte-fur-eine-zukunft/
LOCATION:Warburg-Haus\, Heilwigstr. 116\, Hamburg\, 20249\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Symposia
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231123T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231123T180000
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SUMMARY:Tribute to Mira Hamermesh
DESCRIPTION:In the centenary year of her birth\, Jeremy Coopman will pay tribute to his mother\, the remarkable Polish-born film maker and artist Mira Hamermesh\, who spent most of her working life in England. The event will be chaired by David Herman. \nMira Hamermesh was born in July 1923 in Lodz\, Poland into a comfortable middle-class Jewish family\, the youngest of three children. Mira was 16 when the German invaded Poland in September 1939. She and her brother Mietek decided to go to Palestine to join their sister. Her parents stayed in Lodz: her mother died of starvation in the Lodz ghetto in 1942; her father perished in Auschwitz in 1944. \nMira and her brother escaped to Lvov in Soviet-occupied Poland where they were separated. Mira reached Vilnius in Lithuania in 1940. Her sister Genia\, who had emigrated in 1938\, procured her an entry visa to Palestine and she finally reached Palestine in 1941 where she was reunited with her sister. Her brother reached Palestine in 1943. Mira won a British Council scholarship to study at the Slade School of Fine Art and moved to London in 1946. \nIn 1961\, Mira was accepted into the Polish National Film School in Lodz. In 1968 she was invited to help set up Israel Television and produced several documentaries for the fledgling broadcaster\, including the much praised ‘The Fighters of the Ghetto’ about a kibbutz set up by Holocaust survivors in northern Israel. \nThe mid-80s to the early 90s saw Hamermesh’s most creative period\, including several acclaimed documentaries for Channel 4. Her final film\, ‘Loving the Dead’ (BBC TV\, 1991)\, was a deeply moving exploration of how present-day Poles live with the ghosts of their missing Jewish neighbours. \nMira Hamermesh died in 2012. In 2014 the BFI celebrated her life and works with a short retrospective introduced by Jeremy Isaacs\, founding father of Channel 4 and one of her greatest advocates. \n  \nBooking link here\nImage: Josef Herman: Portrait of Mira Hamermesh
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/tribute-to-mira-hamermesh/
CATEGORIES:Artforms,Film,Fine Art,Lectures,What's On
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240122T183000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Tour - Modernist Hampstead
DESCRIPTION:Online Tour\n\n\nIn this virtual tour discover the revolutionary Modernist homes and idealistic architecture built in Hampstead in the 1930s such as The Sun House by Maxwell Fry\, and 66 Frognal by Connell Ward and Lucas. Much of the architecture echoed design trends in Europe and the walk includes passing housing by the émigré architects Ernst Freud and Erno Goldfinger. Elements of eighteenth-century architectural design were also an influence for some architects. \nPassing some more recent examples and of course striking non modernist Hampstead buildings\, this walk will finish at the iconic and idealistic Isokon flats in Belsize Park. \nTo book\, click here. \n“Very interesting and well delivered virtual tour of Modernist architecture in Hampstead\, drawing on influences of designs from bygone eras. Advantage of virtual tour can cover large area in shorter time than actually walking and can zig zig!! \nGreat photos and expert knowledge of speaker.” \nTrip Advisor July 2020 \n  \nThis is a live virtual tour hosted via Zoom video conferencing where your guide will give an illustrated presentation of the tour route with an accompanying talk. There will be opportunities for questions and interaction both during and after the virtual tour. \n\n\n 
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/virtual-tour-modernist-hampstead-2/
CATEGORIES:Architecture,Lectures,Walks,What's On
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SUMMARY:Virtual Tour - A Walk Through Highgate: Experiments in Urban Living
DESCRIPTION:In this virtual\, scenic walk through Highgate\, we discover its history and important architectural experiments in urban living. \nDiscover some of Highgate’s twentieth century housing developments in this historic Virtual walk through Highgate. We will pass Lubetkin’s iconic Highpoint flats\, learn about Highgate’s early history\, walk through Waterlow Park and learn of it conception\, pass Highgate Cemetery where Karl Marx is buried and explore Abraham Davis’s Holly Lodge Estate and Walter Segal’s 1950s St Anne’s Close. And to top it we will walk up Parliament Hill to see the view of where we walked and the City Skyline. \nThis is a live virtual tour hosted via Zoom video conferencing where your guide will give an illustrated presentation of the tour route with an accompanying talk. There will be opportunities for questions and interaction both during and after the virtual tour. \nTo book\, click here. \n\n“I joined Marilyn Greene’s tour around Highgate yesterday and thoroughly enjoyed it. I was amazed at how much you could learn in 1 hour. Marilyn was really knowledgeable and I will definitely be joining her again.” \n5* Trip Advisor comment
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/a-walk-through-highgate-experiments-in-urban-living-4/
CATEGORIES:Architecture,Artforms,Walks,What's On
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240127T163000
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SUMMARY:Walking Tour - Diverse London - City Public Art by Refugees and Immigrants
DESCRIPTION:The City of London has always been home to immigrant communities. This walks winds its way through the City streets and highlights immigrants who made a mark here in a literal way as it is home to some of their sculptures and reliefs. \nWe will discover the first official public sculpture\, the Monument which was carved by Caius Gabriel Cibber a Danish immigrant; a drinking fountain by French refugee\, Aimé-Jules Dalou; mosaics by Russian born Boris Anrep and perhaps the most significant contribution of sculptures are by a number of refugees from Nazi Europe who settled in the UK such as Naomi Blake\, Frank Meisler\, Oscar Nemon and Georg Ehrlich. The tour finishes with the most recent sculpture\, Unity\, 1992 by a Croatian refugee from former Yugoslavia\, Ivan Klapez. Please note that a couple of sculptures may not be accessible to view due to security or building work issues. \nThis particular walk is timed to be on Holocaust Memorial Day \n  \n\nBook here. \n\nMeet outside the front of St Botolph’s Church\, Aldgate \nAldgate High Street London EC3N 1AB
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/diverse-london-city-public-art-by-refugees-and-immigrants/
CATEGORIES:Architecture,Artforms,Walks,What's On
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240206T180000
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SUMMARY:Lubetkin and Goldfinger: Misunderstood Visionaries?
DESCRIPTION:Russian-born Berthold Lubetkin (1901-1990) and Hungarian-born Ernö Goldfinger (1902-1987) established themselves as two leading British architects who designed high-rise council housing after the Second World War; a type of building that now holds a poor reputation. \nLubetkin built one of the earliest post-war estates in London\, Spa Green in Finsbury\, while Goldfinger designed the last and most notorious council block in the city\, Trellick Tower in North Kensington. Although both architects were communist Jewish migrants from central Europe who shared much in common\, they were rivals who disliked each other. Their reputations suffered with the physical decline of their buildings and from their sometimes less than pleasant personalities. \nYet they were both idealists\, dedicated to building the best possible homes for ordinary people. Lubetkin and Goldfinger: The Rise and Fall of British High-Rise Council Housing by Nicholas Russell\, recently published by Book Guild Publishing Ltd\, aims to shine a light on the overlooked work of these two visionary architects and give them the credit they undoubtedly deserve. \nIn this session\, which will be chaired by Dr.Anna Nyburg\, Nicholas Russell will set this aspect of the two men’s work in a wider context\, both of their own colourful lives and careers and of the history of 20th century British architecture. \nNicholas Russell was a university reader in Science Communication and a college lecturer in Biology and History of Technology. Having had a lifelong interest in art and design\, he now works as a heritage volunteer and spent several seasons as a National Trust guide at Erno Goldfinger’s house in Hampstead. His book on industrial invention and design through a history of the manufacturing firm Russell Hobbs\, Household Names\, was published in 2021. Nicholas lives in Bath \n  \nBooking link here\nImage: book cover
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/lubetkin-and-goldfinger-misunderstood-visionaries/
CATEGORIES:Architecture,Artforms,Design,Lectures,What's On
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240210T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240210T130000
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SUMMARY:Walking Tour: A Walk through Highgate Experiments in Urban Living
DESCRIPTION:Walking Tour\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDiscover some of Highgate’s twentieth century housing developments in this historic walk through Highgate. We will pass Lubetkin’s iconic High Point flats\, learn about Highgate’s early history\, walk through Waterlow Park and learn of it conception\, pass Highgate Cemetery where Karl Marx is buried and explore Abraham Davis’s Holly Lodge Estate and Walter Segal’s 1950s St Anne’s Close. \nStarts Opposite the Woodman Pub\, Archway Road\, finishes at Parliament Hill Fields at the bottom of Swain’s Lane. From here one has the choice to discover Highgate\, see the views from Parliament Hill or further explore Highgate East or West Cemetery \n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo book\, click here. \n 
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/walk-through-highgate-experiments-in-urban-living-2/
CATEGORIES:Architecture,Lectures,Walks,What's On
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240212T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240212T180000
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SUMMARY:From Berlin to London: The Industrial Photography of Walter & Rita Nurnberg
DESCRIPTION:Nick Warr and Simon Dell – the curators of a fascinating exhibition Norwich Works: The Industrial Photography of Walter and Rita Nurnberg currently on at Norwich Castle Museum until 14 April – will talk about the too little known German-born émigré photographers Walter and Rita Nurnberg.Walter (1907-1991) and Rita (1914-2001) Nurnberg established a commercial photographic studio in London in 1934 after relocating from Germany. Walter\, a former pupil and tutor at the prestigious Reimann School of Art and Design in Berlin\, made a name for himself in product photography. After the Second World War\, the Nurnbergs concentrated their collective skills in documenting and celebrating the workers of Britain. \nOver the subsequent decade\, the Nurnbergs made photographs for many of the nation’s most significant companies and their distinctive style of black and white images transformed the image of post-war British industry. While the work they produced for three Norwich manufacturing institutions – Boulton and Paul\, Mackintosh-Caley and Edwards and Holmes – form the centrepiece of the current exhibition\, the speakers will set this work in the broader context of Walter and Rita Nurnberg’s lives and careers. \nDr.Nick Warr is Lecturer in Art History and Curation in the School of Art\, Media and American Studies at the University of East Anglia\, Norwich. He is also Curator of Photographic Collections\, Course Director of Art History and World Art Studies\, and Academic Director of the East Anglian Fim Archive. \nDr.Simon Dell is an art historian who taught at the University of East Anglia for over twenty years. His key research interests include photography\, with special reference to France\, Germany\, the Soviet Union and the United States\, and the relationship of the visual and the political in interwar Europe. \nImage: Walter and Rita Nurnberg\, Delivery of Soles\, 1948 \n  \nBooking link here
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/from-berlin-to-london-the-industrial-photography-of-walter-rita-nurnberg/
CATEGORIES:Artforms,Lectures,Photography,What's On
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240304T180000
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SUMMARY:The Lives of Edith Hoffmann\, Art Historian
DESCRIPTION:Edith Hoffmann\, who lived for 108 ½ years\, 1907-2016\, was brought up in Germany and reached London in 1934. After four years of volunteering in various jobs\, her involvement in the exhibition “20th-Century German Art” led to her twelve-year employment at the Burlington Magazine\, to which she continued to contribute while accompanying her Israeli diplomat husband to various countries. She has been termed “the first woman editor of the Burlington”. She wrote the first book in English about Oskar Kokoschka. \nYonna Yapou-Kromholz\, daughter of Edith Hoffmann(-Yapou)\, is an art historian\, as was her mother.  After studying at the Courtauld Institute\, and a 15-year stint as curator at the Israel Museum\, Jerusalem\, she contributed exhibition reviews to Apollo Magazine from the United States. She is now living in Jerusalem. \n  \nImage: Edith Hoffmann\, 1950 \n  \nBooking link here
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/the-lives-of-edith-hoffmann-art-historian/
CATEGORIES:Artforms,Fine Art,Lectures,What's On
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240319T180000
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SUMMARY:Peter László Péri (1889-1967) - Péri's People
DESCRIPTION:The exhibition “Peter László Péri – Péri’s People” at the Gerhard-Marcks-Haus in Bremen (which runs from 10 March to 2 June 2024\, and is organized in cooperation with Kunsthaus Dahlem in Berlin)\, draws attention to a fascinating sculptor who contradicts the common narrative of modern art in the 20th century. He began as a constructivist and ended as a figurative artist. Yet he was not a traditional academic sculptor but combined the achievements of the avant-garde with a socialist-influenced idea of realism. \nPéri was born Ladislas Weisz in Budapest in 1889. Peri became the Hungarianized family name in 1918. In 1919 he participated in the Hungarian soviet republic\, and in 1920 settled in Berlin. At the beginning of 1933\, as a Jew and Communist\, he had to leave Germany and moved to London with his second\, English\, wife. These brief facts reveal a biography typical of all too many Jewish artists in early 20th century Europe\, and they also explain why so many of these artists remain overlooked. Despite all the methodological innovations of the discipline\, art history is still written primarily according to national patterns. And artists who were forced to move through Europe fall through the cracks. Hungarian and German art history is mostly interested in Péri before 1933\, while English art history focuses on the artist after 1933. This lecture by Arie Hartog will present the results of recent research on Péri and represents a more holistic approach. \n  \nDr. Arie Hartog has been the director of the Gerhard-Marcks-Haus in Bremen since 2009\, having previously worked there as a curator. Since 2013 he has been the chair of the AG Bildhauermuseen and Skulpturensammlungen\, the German working group for sculptor museums and sculpture collections. His research focus is the history of sculpture in the 20th century and the posthumous afterlife of modernist sculpture. \nImage: Peter László Péri\, Reflections\, mid-1960s (detail) © The Estate of Peter László Péri \n  \nBooking link here
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/peter-laszlo-peri-1889-1967-peris-people/
CATEGORIES:Artforms,Fine Art,Lectures,What's On
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240325T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240325T180000
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SUMMARY:Esther Simpson: The True Story of her Mission to Save Scholars from Hitler's Persecution
DESCRIPTION:  \nBorn in Leeds in 1903 to Russian-Jewish emigrants\, as a young woman Esther Sinovitch (Simpson from 1933) stood out academically and musically. With a first-class degree from Leeds University\, she initially worked as a secretary in Paris\, Vienna and Geneva. But when Hitler assumed power in 1933\, she took a job in London at the Academic Assistance Council\, newly set up to rescue displaced German scholars. Over more than five decades\, her work for the Academic Assistance Council and its successor\, the Society for the Protection of Science and Learning\, ensured refuge for thousands of displaced academics worldwide and had a profound impact on twentieth-century science\, philosophy\, philology\, architecture and art history. By the end of her life\, Esther could count among her ‘children’\, as she called them\, sixteen Nobel Prize winners\, eighteen Knights\, seventy-four fellows of the Royal Society and thirty-four fellows of the British Academy. Her ‘children’ also made a major contribution to Allied victory in World War Two. \nSurprisingly\, she has remained a largely unknown historical figure. John Eidinow’s book is a study of Esther Simpson: who she was and how she lived\, what moved her to take up and never to relinquish her calling\, her impact on the world\, and the historical context that helped shape her achievements. \nJohn Eidinow has published three books with his co-author David Edmonds: Wittgenstein’s Poker\, Bobby Fischer Goes to War and Rousseau’s Dog and a novel\, Innocence to Die For. He was a presenter/interviewer for BBC Radio 4 and World Service radio\, working in news and current affairs and making documentaries on historical and contemporary issues. \nThe session will be chaired by writer David Herman. \n  \nImage: book cover \n  \nBooking link here
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/esther-simpson-the-true-story-of-her-mission-to-save-scholars-from-hitlers-persecution/
CATEGORIES:Artforms,Lectures,Music,What's On
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SUMMARY:Memorials\, Past and Present: Caren Garfen in conversation with Monica Bohm-Duchen
DESCRIPTION:London-based Caren Garfen is an award-winning artist specialising in textiles and meticulous hand stitching underpinned by extensive research. When these facets are combined\, the artworks transcend their materiality\, transforming them into powerful dialogues that explore and reflect upon the pressing issues that resonate within our society. Since 2019\, Caren has been delving into themes concerning the Holocaust and examining the troubling resurgence of global antisemitism in the 21st century. Her recent works have been exhibited in Australia\, Bulgaria\, Canada\, Germany\, Latvia and the UK. \nIn conversation with Insiders/Outsiders founding director\, art historian Monica Bohm-Duchen\, Caren will explore artworks crafted over the past five years\, motivated by her urgent mission to memorialise those murdered during the Holocaust and beyond. One of these\, the 2021 project Fragments – which examines the fashion and textile industry in Berlin in the 1930s\, and the impact of Nazi policies of that period on Jewish clothing manufacturers\, designers\, design houses and fashion stores – acts as a dark backdrop to the theme of Fashion City: How Jewish Londoners shaped global style\, the exhibition currently showing at the Museum of London Docklands until 14 April. \nPrompted by the devastating events of the 7 October 2023 massacre of Israelis\, and the disturbing surge in antisemitism\, Caren has recognised the necessity of continuously updating and stitching many of her pieces in real time and will delve into the significance of documenting our recent history through a closer examination of selected works. \nImage: Fragments (detail)\, 2021 \n  \nBooking link here
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/memorials-past-and-present-caren-garfen-in-conversation-with-monica-bohm-duchen/
CATEGORIES:Artforms,Fine Art,Lectures,What's On
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SUMMARY:Mid-European Art Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:Andrea Lehmann\, senior researcher and associate director of restitution at Christie’s\, Brussels\, will talk about her ongoing researches into the tactfully named Mid-European Art Exhibition held at Leicester Museum and Art Gallery in 1944 – 80 years ago this year. In fact\, this was an extraordinary project with a remarkable history\, an exhibition of world-class avant-garde German art condemned by the Nazis as ‘degenerate’ held in a provincial gallery in wartime Britain and organised largely by the Free German League of Culture\, set up by refugees from Nazi persecution.\nAs the impassioned Foreword to the modest catalogue put it: “The instability of the period is reflected in the paintings… The rise of Hitlerism destroyed the schools and the spirit\, exiled and oppressed the men and their works. Modern art was persecuted. Here we can only show and judge what was attempted before this catastrophe overtook the creative spirit of a continent… We wish to thank all those who have loaned their pictures… and rescued them from certain destruction.” \nAndrea will explain how she set about reconstructing this remarkable and still too little-known exhibition\, and will be joined by Simon Lake\, former Curator of Fine Art at Leicester Museum and Art Gallery\, who will set the exhibition in its local context\, focussing on the links between the German-Jewish Hess family and Leicester\, and the role of British curator Trevor Thomas. \n  \nTo book\, click here
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/mid-european-art-exhibition/
CATEGORIES:Artforms,Fine Art,Lectures,What's On
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240429T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240429T180000
DTSTAMP:20260419T103537
CREATED:20240407T083906Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240407T084145Z
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SUMMARY:Otti Berger: Weaving for Modernist Architecture
DESCRIPTION:Otti Berger (1898-1944) was a hugely talented Jewish textile designer\, born in present-day Croatia\, who both studied and taught at the Bauhaus in Dessau\, Germany. She found temporary refuge in the UK in 1937-8 but failed to thrive here\, and ultimately perished in Auschwitz. \nBerger created fabrics that fundamentally changed the understanding of what textiles could be and do. A core member of the experimental approach to textiles at the Bauhaus\, she also was a female entrepreneur in the frenzied time that was the early 1930s in Berlin. Yet to date Berger’s textile work has only been explored in fragments. \nTo mark the publication by Hatje Cantz of a major new book entitled Otti Berger. Weaving for Modernist Architecture\, Berlin-based artist Judith Raum\, the book’s contributing editor\, will talk about this challenging yet rewarding project. The book is the first comprehensive study of the complexity and beauty of Berger’s work and makes her treatise on fabrics and the methodology of textile production accessible in full for the first time. It also highlights the largely unrecognized significance of textiles in the history of architecture and design. Judith will be joined by British design historian Tanya Harrod\, author of the chapter about Berger’s time in England. \n  \nTo book\, click here \nFrom 12 March until 24 August\, the temporary bauhaus-archiv in Berlin will play host to an installation by Judith Raum\, also entitled Otti Berger. Weaving for Modernist Architecture. The exhibition features a new video piece alongside two large scale wall-spanning fabrics.
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/otti-berger-weaving-for-modernist-architecture/
CATEGORIES:Artforms,Design,Lectures,What's On
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240508T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240508T170000
DTSTAMP:20260419T103537
CREATED:20240426T125814Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240426T125855Z
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SUMMARY:Across the Land and the Water: The Two Journeys of the Family Basch
DESCRIPTION:On Wednesday 8 May at 5pm\, there will be a special screening at Maggs Bros\, London\, of ‘Across the Land and the Water: The Two Journeys of the Family Basch’\, an intensely moving and beautifully crafted film by Second Generation artist Barbara Loftus. This will be followed by a Q&A hosted by cultural historian Julia Winckler\, with the artist present. The event also marks the recent publication of the two-volume limited edition artist’s book\, Barbara Loftus: The Distanced Observer. \nTo book\, email euphemia@maggs.com with ‘Barbara Loftus Screening’ as the subject heading. \nImage: Barbara Loftus\, Passing (detail)\, oil on canvas
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/59414/
LOCATION:Maggs Booksellers\, 8 Bedford Square\, London\, WC1B 3DR\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Artforms,Film,Film screenings,Fine Art,Lectures,What's On
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240518T133000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240518T153000
DTSTAMP:20260419T103537
CREATED:20210803T180638Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240502T104812Z
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SUMMARY:Walking Tour - Diverse London - Art and Refugees in Hampstead
DESCRIPTION:In the late 1930s the Hampstead Art scene rallied support to rescue artists trapped in Czechoslovakia under Nazi rule. Led by the refugee lawyer/artist Fred Ulman and his aristocratic English wife Diana Croft from their Downshire Hill house\, they formed the artist refugee committee. We learn about how their house became a refuge for artists and about the organizations that they were involved with. We visit sites Uhlman was known to frequent and discuss the role of his artistic friends and neighbours and consider other refugees who settled in Hampstead during this time. \nBefore or after the tour you may wish to visit the Isokon Gallery and/or 2 Willow Road (advance booking required). \n  \n\n\n\nBook here. \n  \n\nMeet in the forecourt outside Wagamama\, 58-62 Heath Street\, London\, NW31EN. \nYou can check travel options at the Transport for London Journey Planner. \n\nPicture: The Coffee Cup\, Hampstead which Fred Uhlman frequented by Marilyn Greene
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/diverse-london-art-and-refugees-in-hampstead/
CATEGORIES:Architecture,Artforms,Walks,What's On
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240520T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240520T180000
DTSTAMP:20260419T103537
CREATED:20240426T124727Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240426T125213Z
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SUMMARY:Crossed Wires\, Broken Lines: Ernst Schoen and Charlotte Wolff
DESCRIPTION:Professor Esther Leslie and Dr Sam Dolbear\, co-authors of the 2023 book Dissonant Waves: Ernst Schoen and Experimental Sound in the Twentieth Century\, will first talk about the life of Ernst Schoen (1894-1960)—poet\, composer\, radio programmer\, theorist\, and best friend of Walter Benjamin from childhood—as he moves between Frankfurt\, Berlin\, Paris\, and London. Through friendship and comradeship\, a position in state-backed radio\, imprisonment\, exile\, networking in a new country\, re-emigration\, ill-treatment\, neglect\, Schoen suffers the century and articulates its broken promises. \nSam Dolbear will then discuss his latest project\, on Charlotte Wolff (1897–1986)—a friend of Walter Benjamin\, Helen Grund and also Ernst Schoen⁠—a doctor who\, after fleeing Germany in 1933\, took up hand reading in Paris to make ends meet. She read the hands of anonymous members of certain professions—acrobats\, dancers\, and department-store managers—but also members of the surrealist and modernist avant-gardes of Paris and London: from Antonin Artaud to Romola Nijinsky to Marcel Duchamp to Virginia Woolf. His book Hand That Touch This Fortune Will:  A history and theory of hand reading (After Charlotte Wolff) is forthcoming with Ma Bibliothèque. \nSchoen and Wolff were friends in the early 1920s and both made it to London\, the former in 1933\, the latter in 1936. The session will address their differing experience of exiled life and their feelings about ‘returning’ to Germany after the end of the war – Schoen going back in 1947 on a BBC mission and\, permanently\, in 1951 and Wolff only twice\, for two short trips\, with great nervousness. \n  \nBooking link here
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/crossed-wires-broken-lines-ernst-schoen-and-charlotte-wolff/
CATEGORIES:Artforms,Design,Lectures,Music,What's On
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240530T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240530T180000
DTSTAMP:20260419T103537
CREATED:20240426T125133Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240426T125242Z
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SUMMARY:Becoming Kathrine Talbot: A Jewish Refugee and the Novelist She Invented
DESCRIPTION:In 1935\, when she was fourteen years old\, Ilse Gross fled Germany for the safety of England. Alone. Seventeen years later\, she published her audacious first novel Fire in the Sun. Her pen name: Kathrine Talbot. Her German Jewish identity she carefully concealed. Becoming Kathrine Talbot: A Jewish Refugee and the Novelist She Invented\, first published in German in 2022\, recreates the life of a refugee who lost her parents and sister in the Holocaust and who resisted telling their stories until it was almost too late. Only at the end of her life did she turn her family’s fate into prose.\nIn the just-published English translation of his book\, Professor Dr. Christoph Ribbat of the University of Paderborn\, Germany\, traces the life of a once well-known but now nearly forgotten 20th century novelist from an Isle of Man internment camp to postwar Cornwall\, New York\, and California\, and then to a green hill in Sussex. He will be joined for this discussion of the new publication by Professor Sue Vice of the University of Sheffield\, who has written: ‘Christoph Ribbat’s remarkable book is a creative biography and literary retrieval of Kathrine Talbot\, née Ilse Gross … It will make everyone who reads it reconsider what they believe they know about the lives of refugees\, and rush to find copies of Talbot’s fiction.’ \nPlease note that those signed up to attend this event will be able to benefit from a 20% discount on the cover price of the book. \n  \nBooking link here
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/becoming-kathrine-talbot-a-jewish-refugee-and-the-novelist-she-invented/
CATEGORIES:Artforms,Lectures,Literature,What's On
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240621
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240622
DTSTAMP:20260419T103537
CREATED:20240531T140047Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240531T140715Z
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SUMMARY:Architects Seeking Refuge on the Brink of WWII
DESCRIPTION:On 21-22 June the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) is hosting a hybrid conference entitled Architects Seeking Refuge on the Brink of WWII. In January 1939 the RIBA set up a special committee to deal with the increasing number of requests of assistance from architects from Nazi-occupied Central Europe. The Refugee Committee Papers are held in the RIBA Archives and have inspired ongoing research on the topic\, of which this conference – will be the first major output. \nFor full details\, click here and to book\, click here.
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/architects-seeking-refuge-on-the-brink-of-wwii/2024-06-21/
CATEGORIES:Architecture,Artforms,Educational events,Symposia
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240622
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240624
DTSTAMP:20260419T103537
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LAST-MODIFIED:20240531T140715Z
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SUMMARY:Architects Seeking Refuge on the Brink of WWII
DESCRIPTION:On 21-22 June the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) is hosting a hybrid conference entitled Architects Seeking Refuge on the Brink of WWII. In January 1939 the RIBA set up a special committee to deal with the increasing number of requests of assistance from architects from Nazi-occupied Central Europe. The Refugee Committee Papers are held in the RIBA Archives and have inspired ongoing research on the topic\, of which this conference – will be the first major output. \nFor full details\, click here and to book\, click here.
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/architects-seeking-refuge-on-the-brink-of-wwii/2024-06-22/
CATEGORIES:Architecture,Artforms,Educational events,Symposia
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240623T133000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240623T163000
DTSTAMP:20260419T103537
CREATED:20210803T180638Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240502T105319Z
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SUMMARY:Walking Tour - Diverse London - City Public Art by Refugees and Immigrants
DESCRIPTION:The City of London has always been home to immigrant communities. This walks winds its way through the City streets and highlights immigrants who made a mark here in a literal way as it is home to some of their sculptures and reliefs. We will discover the first official public sculpture\, the Monument which was carved by Caius Gabriel Cibber a Danish immigrant; a drinking fountain by French refugee\, Aimé-Jules Dalou; mosaics by Russian born Boris Anrep and perhaps the most significant contribution of sculptures are by a number of refugees from Nazi Europe who settled in the UK such as Naomi Blake\, Frank Meisler\, Oscar Nemon and Georg Ehrlich. The tour finishes with the most recent sculpture\, Unity\, 1992 by a Croatian refugee from former Yugoslavia\, Ivan Klapez. \nPlease note that a couple of sculptures may not be accessible to view due to security or building work issues. \nThis particular walk is timed to be during refugee week Refugee Week – 17 – 23 June 2024 \n\n\n\nBook here. \n\nMeet outside the front of St Botolph’s Church\, Aldgate \nAldgate High Street London EC3N 1AB
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/diverse-london-city-public-art-by-refugees-and-immigrants-2/
CATEGORIES:Architecture,Artforms,Walks,What's On
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240923T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240923T193000
DTSTAMP:20260419T103537
CREATED:20240821T092548Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240919T111225Z
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SUMMARY:Painting Trauma: The Story of Heinz Inlander (1925-83)
DESCRIPTION:Fragments of experience can be brought together by colour and shape\, form and canvas\, but also by craft and an intense awareness of painting as one of the foundations upon which humans build their understanding of the cultures and environments they inhabit. For Austrian-born Henry (born Heinz) Inlander\, who settled in England in 1938\, paintings of landscapes brought the richness of the physical world into contact with human vision\, memory and the imagination. It was also his way of exploring the trauma of his family history\, especially the loss of family in the Holocaust. \nHenry Inlander painted the eruption of the real world onto the canvas\, and this is best exemplified by his early drawings and paintings which explored everything from the textures of trees to the shape of a mountain against the sky. As an artist he was obsessed by the transformative power of art and by an inner impulse that made it impossible to live without creating\, imagining and recreating the world that he loved. \nDr. Ron Burnett\, Inlander’s nephew\, was born in London. He was President and Vice-Chancellor of Emily Carr University of Art and Design\, Vancouver\, from 1996-2018 and is now its President Emeritus. He is a recipient of the Order of Canada as well as the Order of British Columbia and has been recognized with a Knighthood by the French Government. He is the author of five books (including Explorations in Film Theory and How Images Think) and over one hundred and fifty articles. \nBooking details here
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/painting-trauma-the-story-of-heinz-inlander-1925-83rene-halkett-1900-1984/
CATEGORIES:Fine Art,Lectures,What's On
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240930T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240930T193000
DTSTAMP:20260419T103537
CREATED:20240821T092548Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240919T111242Z
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SUMMARY:Dirt on Flat Surfaces: René Halkett 1900 – 1983
DESCRIPTION:Artist René Halkett wasn’t what he seemed. In 1936 he escaped to Britain with his fourth wife Hilde\, and he wanted to be reborn. A master of many languages\, he could conjugate ‘Renaître’. But his Weimar birthright named him Albrecht Georg Friedrich Freiherr Von Fritsch. Born to be a baron\, all he ever wanted was to paint. \nRené featured in last year’s ‘Refugees at Dartington’ online conference. But there’s more to reveal. Multiple turning points from his picaresque life were confided 50 years ago to the (then) BBC journalist Ian Fell\, who is giving this talk. Hours of recordings & papers survive. \nYes\, he’d trained in the Prussian Cadet Corps and served on the Western Front\, but with WW1 done he kicked over the baronial traces. He joined the Bauhaus\, danced at Loheland\, made avant-garde theatre\, and expressed his ‘idiotic urge to put coloured dirt on flat surfaces’. \nOnce in British sanctuary\, Dartington empowered René’s coloured dirt\, and promoted his seminal book\, The Dear Monster. He joined Dartington’s Chekhov Theatre Studio\, overlapped with Kurt Jooss\, and then – as with so many – life about-turned into the Pioneer Corps. He escaped into Sefton Delmer’s darkness\, broadcasting covert propaganda to Germany. \nUltimately (post-war) he joined fellow ‘enemy aliens’ in the BBC’s German Service. But not before he’d ‘re-educated’ Germany with British movies\, documented at Nuremberg\, and discovered his POW General cousin in Wales. Halkett’s ‘Brief aus Cornwall’ 1970’s broadcasts enticed German Service listeners into his Cornish village home. There he died in 1984\, having left us countless more ironic tales of a life incessantly reborn. \nBooking details here
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/dirt-on-flat-surfaces-rene-halkett-1900-1984/
CATEGORIES:Lectures,What's On
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241010T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241010T193000
DTSTAMP:20260419T103537
CREATED:20240821T092548Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240919T111258Z
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SUMMARY:The Laterndl: A Light in Dark Times
DESCRIPTION:Das Laterndl (The Little Lantern) was the first and largest of a number of German-language theatres run by exiles in London during the Second World War. It reunited friends and colleagues who had worked together in Vienna at one or other of the political cabaret theatres which had flourished during the period of Austro-fascism\, 1934-1938. \nThe three actors who proposed the opening of a theatre at the Austrian Centre in March 1939 – Fritz Schrecker\, Franz Hartl and Franz Schulz – had clear aims in mind for the theatre. They wanted to give the wider refugee community hope and belief in the future\, contribute to the fight for a free and independent Austria and reach out and share stories with their British hosts. Perhaps\, just as importantly\, was an unspoken hope that theatre would bring a sense of agency and purpose to their life in exile. \nThis talk by Kat Hubschmann\, project archivist\, Martin Miller and Hannah Norbert-Miller Trust\, coincides with a new online exhibition entitled A Light in Dark Times on the same subject\, based on the holdings of The Martin Miller and Hannah Norbert-Miller Archive at the University of London. \nBooking details here
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/the-laterndl-a-light-in-dark-timesrene-halkett-1900-1983/
CATEGORIES:Lectures,Theatre,What's On
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241021T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241021T193000
DTSTAMP:20260419T103537
CREATED:20240821T092548Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240919T111321Z
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SUMMARY:Connecting the Dots: Reconstructing the Uncharted Life of Jella Lepman in Wartime Britain\, 1937-1945
DESCRIPTION:A rare Jewish émigré to return to Germany immediately after WWII\, Jella Lepman (1891-1970) spearheaded an effort to re-educate the children of Germany\, and the world\, so they would become less susceptible to the pull of ultra-nationalism and xenophobia that led to the horrors of two world wars. \nWhile Allied occupations sought to de-Nazify Germany—efforts which were quickly dismantled after the Allied armies returned home\, Lepman thought the only true way forward was to “start with the children.”  She sought to change the hearts and minds of the next generation by exposing youth to books from other countries\, so they would become more empathetic and internationally-minded. Her work resulted in the establishment of what has since become the largest children’s book library in the world\, an international consortium that links 80 countries\, and indirectly\, the mammoth Children’s Book Fair in Bologna\, Italy.  Those institutions still exist today. \nLepman documented her work in an autobiography\, A Bridge of Children’s Books (1964) but glossed over the formative experiences in wartime Britain that shaped and inspired her later achievements. Lecturer David Jacobson has mined numerous archives in the U.K.\, Germany and the United States to sketch a vivid picture of her life and work in Britain\, undescribed until today.  An effort that literally required connecting the dots. \nDavid Jacobson is a veteran writer\, journalist and Japanese translator.  His first biography\, Are You an Echo?  The Lost Poetry of Misuzu Kaneko (a picture book for children)\, introduced the life and work of a beloved Japanese children’s poet to the English-speaking world. He is currently working on a biography of Jella Lepman. \nPhoto credit: Walter Poehlmann\, 1945. International Youth Library Hausarchiv\, 46.1127 \nBooking details here
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/connecting-the-dots-reconstructing-the-uncharted-life-of-jella-lepman-in-wartime-britain-1937-1945-dark-times/
CATEGORIES:Lectures,What's On
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241022T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241022T130000
DTSTAMP:20260419T103537
CREATED:20210104T092107Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241004T172610Z
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SUMMARY:Walking Tour: A Walk through Highgate Experiments in Urban Living
DESCRIPTION:Walking Tour \n\n\n\n\n\n\nDiscover some of Highgate’s twentieth century housing developments in this historic walk through Highgate. We will pass Lubetkin’s iconic High Point flats\, learn about Highgate’s early history\, walk through Waterlow Park and learn of it conception\, pass Highgate Cemetery where Karl Marx is buried and explore Abraham Davis’s Holly Lodge Estate and Walter Segal’s 1950s St Anne’s Close. \nStarts Opposite the Woodman Pub\, Archway Road\, finishes at Parliament Hill Fields at the bottom of Swain’s Lane. From here one has the choice to discover Highgate\, see the views from Parliament Hill or further explore Highgate East or West Cemetery \n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo book\, click here. \n  \nMeet on the green opposite the Woodman Pub\, Archway Road London N6 5UA
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/walking-tour-a-walk-through-highgate-experiments-in-urban-living/
CATEGORIES:Architecture,Lectures,Walks,What's On
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241023T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241023T200000
DTSTAMP:20260419T103537
CREATED:20240821T092548Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240919T154551Z
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SUMMARY:Exhibition Talk – ‘The Handicaps of Exile’: Fred Kormis and Refugee Sculptors in Britain\, c. 1933–45
DESCRIPTION:This event is organised as part of the Fred Kormis: Sculpting the Twentieth Century event series at The Wiener Holocaust Library\n \nWhen Fritz (later Fred) Kormis arrived in England (via Holland) in 1934 he was among more than 300 artists\, around one-sixth of them sculptors\, who found refuge from Nazism in Britain. \nThis talk situates Kormis within this wider context and among a cohort of refugee sculptors who included Benno Elkan\, Georg Ehrlich and Willi Soukop\, among many others. \nIt explores his interaction with émigré networks and their pre- and interwar exhibition platforms\, most notably\, the groundbreaking Exhibition of Twentieth Century German Art\, held at the New Burlington Galleries\, London in 1938\, intended as a riposte to the famous Nazi Entartete Kunst (‘Degenerate Art’) show\, mounted in Munich the previous year.  Simultaneously\, it also seeks to answer why in other ways\, Kormis stands apart from other refugee sculptors\, working largely beyond the émigré sphere and how this affected his pre- and postwar career trajectory. \nAbout the Speaker \nSarah MacDougall is Director of Scholarship at Ben Uri Gallery and Museum and heads the Ben Uri Research Unit for the Study of the Jewish Refugee and Immigrant Contribution to the Visual Arts in Britain since 1900\, and collections and exhibition programming. She has a particular interest in refugee sculptors and has lectured and published extensively on this subject. A committee member of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies (University of London)\, she co-edited Yearbook 18 on Émigrés and the Applied Arts. \nBooking details here \n  \nImage: Photograph showing Kormis’ Two Heads\, c. 1930s\, which was featured in the Twentieth Century German Art exhibition in 1938. Wiener Holocaust Library Collections
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/exhibition-talk-the-handicaps-of-exile-fred-kormis-and-refugee-sculptors-in-britain-c-1933-45econstructing-the-uncharted-life-of-jella-lepman-in-wartime-britain/
LOCATION:The Wiener Library\, 29 Russell Square\, London\, W1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Lectures,What's On
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241030T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241030T200000
DTSTAMP:20260419T103537
CREATED:20240821T092548Z
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SUMMARY:Exhibition Talk – Insiders/Outsiders: Refugees from Nazi Europe and their Contribution to British Public Sculpture
DESCRIPTION:This event is organised as part of the Fred Kormis: Sculpting the Twentieth Century event series at The Wiener Holocaust Library\n \nJoin us for an illustrated lecture by London-based art historian Monica Bohm-Duchen about the émigré sculptors who created so many of the works still visible in public spaces throughout the UK\, whose names and life stories nevertheless remain too little examined. \nAmong the 300 or so visual artists who found sanctuary from Nazi persecution in the UK during the 1930s were a significant number of sculptors\, whose practice included commissions for diverse public spaces. While many of these works have become a taken-for-granted feature of the (mostly) urban landscape\, too little attention has been paid to those who created them. \nThis lecture will consider both their pre-and post-war careers\, paying particular attention to the circumstances of their arrival\, the challenges involved in their integration into British cultural life\, and the support networks that enabled them to establish themselves and ultimately to thrive here. \nSculptors to be discussed include Siegfried Charoux\, Peter László Peri\, Georg Ehrlich\, Franta Belsky\, Ernst Müller-Blensdorf\, Bernard Schottlander\, Oscar Nemon and Fred Kormis. \nThis event\, like several of the others in this series\, is held in partnership with Insiders/Outsiders. \nAbout the Speaker \nMonica Bohm-Duchen is an independent London-based writer\, lecturer and curator. The institutions she has worked for include the Courtauld Institute of Art\, Sotheby’s Institute of Art\, Tate\, the National Gallery and the Royal Academy of Arts. Her many publications include After Auschwitz: Responses to the Holocaust in Contemporary Art and Art and the Second World War. She is the Founding Director of Insiders/Outsiders\, an ongoing celebration of the contribution made by refugees from Nazism to British culture\, and editor of its companion volume\, Insiders/Outsiders: Refugees from Nazi Europe and their Contribution to British Visual Culture. \n  \nBooking details here \n  \nImage: Following the Leader (Memorial to the Children Killed in the Blitz)\, Peter László Peri.
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/exhibition-talk-insiders-outsiders-refugees-from-nazi-europe-and-their-contribution-to-british-public-sculpture/
LOCATION:The Wiener Library\, 29 Russell Square\, London\, W1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions,Lectures,What's On
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SUMMARY:Exhibition Talk – The woodcut print in Germany after WWI: Remorse\, redemption\, reparation
DESCRIPTION:This event is organised as part of the Fred Kormis: Sculpting the Twentieth Century event series at The Wiener Holocaust Library\n \nAs became all too familiar after the Holocaust\, the experience of suffering and inhumanity often proves to be unrepresentable. However\, in the aftermath of the First World War in Germany\, the opposite was the case. Here\, a flood of works on paper gave Expressionist artists and their bruised public an outlet for sentiments that ranged from an insistence on bearing witness to the horrors of trench warfare\, to grief and despair; and to a redemptive hope on the other side. \nBased on the extraordinary evidence of woodcut prints made by Fred Kormis as a prisoner of war in Siberia\, this lecture explores the context of printmaking around 1918. Highlighting the cathartic process of woodcut printing for fellow sculptors and graphic artists Ernst Barlach and Käthe Kollwitz\, it considers the qualities of this spare graphic medium that make it suited to the direct expression of existential extremes. \nAbout the Speaker: \nDr Niccola Shearman is a historian of twentieth-century European art\, with a focus on Germany and Austria to 1945. She has taught a variety of undergraduate courses at The Courtauld Institute and at the University of Manchester and is a regular contributor to Courtauld Short Courses and to the V&A Academy. \nNiccola’s PhD (2018) concerned the intense wave of woodcut printmaking in the aftermath of the First World War in Germany. She has published articles on this subject and on related themes of art and empathy. Further research interests lie in the art of modernist Vienna\, and in the careers of Viennese exiles to the UK under the rise of Nazism. \n  \nBooking details here \n  \nImage: Christian Rohlfs\, The Prisoner\, (detail) woodcut print\, 1918
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/exhibition-talk-the-woodcut-print-in-germany-after-wwi-remorse-redemption-reparation/
LOCATION:The Wiener Library\, 29 Russell Square\, London\, W1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions,Lectures,What's On
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