Walking Tour – Diverse London – Art and Refugees in Hampstead
Discover how Hampstead’s war-time artistic scene supported and helped save refugee artists from Nazi Europe enabling them to come to London
£10 – £15
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Crossed Wires, Broken Lines: Ernst Schoen and Charlotte Wolff
Virtual EventProfessor 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.
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Becoming Kathrine Talbot: A Jewish Refugee and the Novelist She Invented
Virtual Eventn 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.
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Architects Seeking Refuge on the Brink of WWII
Hybrid EventIn 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.
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Architects Seeking Refuge on the Brink of WWII
Hybrid EventIn 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.
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Walking Tour – Diverse London – City Public Art by Refugees and Immigrants
Walking across the City, we discover the stories behind the people and sculptures of public art by immigrants and refugees
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Painting Trauma: The Story of Heinz Inlander (1925-83)
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.
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Dirt on Flat Surfaces: René Halkett 1900 – 1983
René featured in last year’s ‘Refugees at Dartington’ online conference. But there’s more to reveal.
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The Laterndl: A Light in Dark Times
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.
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Connecting the Dots: Reconstructing the Uncharted Life of Jella Lepman in Wartime Britain, 1937-1945
Virtual EventA 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.
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Walking Tour: A Walk through Highgate Experiments in Urban Living
Discover the experimental 20th century architectural homes in a stroll through Highgate Village, Waterlow Park and the Holly Lodge Estate
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Exhibition Talk – ‘The Handicaps of Exile’: Fred Kormis and Refugee Sculptors in Britain, c. 1933–45
The Wiener Library 29 Russell Square, London, United KingdomThis event is organised as part of the Fred Kormis: Sculpting the Twentieth Century event series at The Wiener Holocaust Library
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Exhibition Talk – Insiders/Outsiders: Refugees from Nazi Europe and their Contribution to British Public Sculpture
The Wiener Library 29 Russell Square, London, United KingdomThis event is organised as part of the Fred Kormis: Sculpting the Twentieth Century event series at The Wiener Holocaust Library
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Exhibition Talk – The woodcut print in Germany after WWI: Remorse, redemption, reparation
The Wiener Library 29 Russell Square, London, United KingdomThis event is organised as part of the Fred Kormis: Sculpting the Twentieth Century event series at The Wiener Holocaust Library
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Walking Tour – Diverse London – City Public Art by Refugees and Immigrants
Walking across the City, we discover the stories behind the people and sculptures of public art by immigrants and refugees
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Exhibition Event – Curators’ talk: Dr Barbara Warnock and Dr Helen Lewandowski
The Wiener Library 29 Russell Square, London, United KingdomThis event is organised as part of the Fred Kormis: Sculpting the Twentieth Century event series at The Wiener Holocaust Library
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‘On Dorothy Bohm’: An Illustrated Lecture
Burgh House and Hampstead Museum Burgh House, New End Square, London, United KingdomVirtual EventMonica Bohm-Duchen will be giving a talk at Burgh House in Hampstead, about her photographer mother Dorothy Bohm.
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Karen Gershon (1923-1993) – Writing my mother’s story: a journey of redefinition
Virtual EventThe author and poet Karen Gershon, probably best known for her book We Came as Children (1966), arrived in England as the child Kate Loewenthal on a Kindertransport in December 1938.
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Exhibition Talk – A secret garden? Fred Kormis and the Memorial to Prisoners of War and Victims of Concentration Camps 1914-1945
The Wiener Library 29 Russell Square, London, United KingdomThis event is organised as part of the Fred Kormis: Sculpting the Twentieth Century event series at The Wiener Holocaust Library
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Insight and Observation: The Life and Work of Gerda Rubinstein (1931-2022)
Virtual EventRoger Lee of Parndon Mill in Harlow, who exhibited her work and knew Gerda personally, will be in conversation with Monica Bohm-Duchen, art historian and founding director of Insiders/Outsiders, to introduce us to the touching life story and artistic evolution of this still little-known woman émigré sculptor.
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Hybrid Exhibition Talk – Aurelia Young: My father, sculptor Oscar Nemon
The Wiener Library 29 Russell Square, London, United KingdomThis event is organised as part of the Fred Kormis: Sculpting the Twentieth Century event series at The Wiener Holocaust Library
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Hybrid Exhibition Talk – Dedication in Sculpture: The Story of Naomi Blake FRSS
The Wiener Library 29 Russell Square, London, United KingdomThis event is organised as part of the Fred Kormis: Sculpting the Twentieth Century event series at The Wiener Holocaust Library
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Arthur Fleischmann (1896-1990): A New Life in the UK
Virtual EventIn this talk Dominique Fleischmann will give an overview of his father’s career in London, his use of Perspex as a sculptural medium, and focus on public commissions for World Expos and the Festival of Britain.
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Charlotte Mayer (1929-2022) – The Spiral of Life
Virtual EventThis talk, given by the sculptor’s daughter, Antonia Salmon who is also an artist, will explore Charlotte Mayer’s early years growing up in Prague and the impact on her life of her experience of being a child refugee when she came to the UK in 1939 at the age of ten.
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