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SUMMARY:Charlotte Mayer (1929-2022) - The Spiral of Life
DESCRIPTION:This 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. Antonia will also discuss the influence on her mother’s approach to life of her creative and dynamic grandmother. Charlotte’s deep interest in and practice of meditation\, combined with her studies of nature\, led her to produce abstract forms that have dynamism and stillness in their apparent simplicity. Many of her sculptures were a healing response to life challenges. She will explore Charlotte’s working methods and materials and how these translated into the production of bronze and stainless works for private and public commissions. \nAntonia Salmon is an internationally renowned ceramic artist. Brought up in a household dedicated to modern sculpture and architecture\, her childhood was infused with an awareness of form and space. She studied Geography and Geology at Sheffield University\, and later attended Harrow School of Art as a studio potter. A year spent studying in the Middle East and India made a deep impression and after returning to England in 1985 she established her first workshop in London. In the late 1980s\, she returned to Sheffield where she still lives and works.\nThis talk forms part of the events programme – organised in partnership with Insiders/Outsiders – accompanying the Fred Kormis exhibition at the Wiener Holocaust Library\, which runs until 6 February 2025. \nTo book\, click here \nImage: Charlotte Mayer with two of her sculptures\, c.1990 © Steve Russell
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/charlotte-mayer-1929-2022-the-spiral-of-life/
CATEGORIES:Artforms,Fine Art,Lectures
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SUMMARY:Arthur Fleischmann (1896-1990): A New Life in the UK
DESCRIPTION:The sculptor Arthur Fleischmann was born into a Jewish family in Bratislava. He studied medicine in Budapest and Prague and qualified as a medical doctor – where in parallel he started his sculpture studies under Professor Jan Štursa. Immediately after qualifying as a doctor\, he turned his attention and energy fully to sculpture. He left Europe in the mid-1930s and\, following periods living and working in Bali and Australia\, returned to Europe in 1948\, where he settled in London and began to establish himself. His work was championed by Sir Charles Wheeler\, and despite cultural prejudices\, he was elected a Fellow of the Society of British Sculptors. \nIn 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. Among the latter were commissions for four sculptures at the Brussels World Exhibition in 1958 – two for the British Pavilion and two for the Vatican Pavilion. He and his young wife Joy spent a year on site in Brussels working to install the sculptures. The majority of his efforts were spent erecting the 40 foot high aluminium Resurrection. \nDominique Fleischmann\, son of the sculptor\, is a trustee of the Arthur Fleischmann Foundation and was instrumental both in setting up the Arthur Fleischmann Museum in Bratislava in 2002 and in publishing the book Bali in the 1930s: Photographs and Sculptures by Arthur Fleischmann in 2007. He has supported his mother Joy in the staging of numerous exhibitions and events since the death of Arthur Fleischmann in 1990. He has developed the Arthur Fleischmann Digital Archive that aims to provide a definitive catalogue of all Arthur Fleischmann sculptures\, drawings\, paintings and photographs around the world. In the last four years\, he has digitized the thousands of letters and photographs in his father’s archive that were recently acquired by Tate. \nDominique will be joined by sculpture expert Joanna Barnes\, who curated the exhibition ‘Arthur Fleischmann: a centennial celebration’ at the Mestke Múzeum in Bratislava in 1996 and helped establish the Arthur Fleischmann Museum there in 2002. A former trustee of the Public Monuments and Sculpture Association\, Joanna was editor of its online magazine\, 3rd Dimension and co-founder of the Sculpture Journal. Co-founder of The Public Statues and Sculpture Association (PSSA)\, she is currently its co-chair. \nThis talk forms part of the events programme – organised in partnership with Insiders/Outsiders – accompanying the Fred Kormis exhibition at the Wiener Holocaust Library\, which runs until 6 February 2025. \n  \nTo book\, click here \n  \nImage: Arthur Fleischmann\, 1972. With kind permission of the Arthur Fleischmann Archive
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/arthur-fleischmann-1896-1990-a-new-life-in-the-uk/
CATEGORIES:Artforms,Fine Art,Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250122T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250122T200000
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SUMMARY:Hybrid Exhibition Talk – Dedication in Sculpture: The Story of Naomi Blake FRSS
DESCRIPTION:This event is organised as part of the Fred Kormis: Sculpting the Twentieth Century event series at The Wiener Holocaust Library\n \nIn partnership with Insiders/Outsiders. \nNaomi Blake (nee Zisi Dum) was born in 1924 in Mukacevo\, Czechoslovakia to a large Jewish family within a thriving Jewish population. After enduring Auschwitz and the loss of many family members\, sculpture became a positive means of expression. She studied art at the Hornsey School of Art and became a Fellow of the Royal Society of British Sculptors. \nAs her work developed into abstract and semi-figurative pieces\, she sought to promote understanding between faiths. To date more than 50 works stand in many places of worship and public spaces such as around the UK and overseas\, such as\, Bristol Cathedral\, Norwich Cathedral\, St. Botolph’s Church\, Leeds Synagogue\, Great Ormond St. Hospital\, Fitzroy Square and Tel Aviv University. \nNaomi’s daughter\, Anita will introduce you to Naomi’s sculpture\, which stands determinedly to help keep alive the legacy of the six million slaughtered Jews\, as well as promoting Naomi’s vision for a more tolerant society and her hopes for the future. \nAnita will be speaking on behalf of Generation 2 Generation\, a charity that enables descendants of Holocaust survivors to tell their family stories. \nAbout the Speaker: \nAnita Peleg is a University Lecturer and National Teaching Fellow with a doctorate specialising in Business Ethics. She has also carried out significant research into the Holocaust and published two books about her mother\, Naomi Blake\, a sculptor and survivor of Auschwitz.  She is Chair of Trustees and a speaker for Generation 2 Generation\, a charity that enables descendants of Holocaust survivors tell their family stories to a range of audiences.  In these roles she is able to apply her 20 years of teaching experience to educate about the Holocaust\, speaking at universities\, schools\, civic and religious institutions. \nVirtual Event guidelines: \n\nThe Library will send you a Zoom link and joining instructions via email prior to the event. Please check your junk email folders.\nPlease try and join 5 minutes before the event start time and we will let you into the room (do try and bear with us if this takes a few minutes).\nIf you would like to ask a question during the event\, please type your question into the chat function\, and we will endeavour to answer as many questions as possible during the Q&A. Your webcam will not be seen during this event.\n\nThis event is free\, although registration via the link below is required. Please note that our free events are run by staff volunteers. Thank you for your patience should we have any technical or audio difficulties. We will do our best to correct them but this is not always possible. \n  \nBooking details here \n  \nImage: Naomi Blake\, Sculptor. Credit: The London News Service
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/hybrid-exhibition-talk-dedication-in-sculpture-the-story-of-naomi-blake-frss/
LOCATION:The Wiener Library\, 29 Russell Square\, London\, W1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions,Lectures,What's On
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SUMMARY:Hybrid Exhibition Talk – Aurelia Young: My father\, sculptor Oscar Nemon
DESCRIPTION:This event is organised as part of the Fred Kormis: Sculpting the Twentieth Century event series at The Wiener Holocaust Library\n \nIn partnership with Insiders/Outsiders. \nAurelia Young will trace Oscar Nemon’s (1906-1985) dramatic journey across Europe from his home in Croatia to seek refuge from the Nazis in England in the 1930s. \nNemon had to live with the knowledge that his mother had been murdered in the Holocaust and with his rejection by the  parents of his English wife on the grounds that he was a penniless Jew. \nAmongst Nemon’s many famous sitters were Sigmund Freud\, Winston Churchill\, Queen Elizabeth II\, Margaret Thatcher\, the Israeli diplomat Abba Eban\, Prof Sir Ernst Chain and Princess Diana. \nAbout the speaker: \nAurelia Young grew up in Oxford running in and out of her father’s studio. She has spent the last twenty years researching the life of her remarkable enigmatic father and has co-authored a biography of him ‘Finding Nemon’. She is married to the politician\, Lord Young of Cookham. \nVirtual Event guidelines: \n\nThe Library will send you a Zoom link and joining instructions via email prior to the event. Please check your junk email folders.\nPlease try and join 5 minutes before the event start time and we will let you into the room (do try and bear with us if this takes a few minutes).\nIf you would like to ask a question during the event\, please type your question into the chat function\, and we will endeavour to answer as many questions as possible during the Q&A. Your webcam will not be seen during this event.\n\nThis event is free\, although registration via the link below is required. Please note that our free events are run by staff volunteers. Thank you for your patience should we have any technical or audio difficulties. We will do our best to correct them but this is not always possible. \n  \nBooking details here \n  \nImage: Oscar Nemon with his bust of Winston Churchill and Churchill’s bust of Nemon (Churchill’s only work of sculpture). © Falcon Stuart.
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/hybrid-exhibition-talk-aurelia-young-my-father-sculptor-oscar-nemon/
LOCATION:The Wiener Library\, 29 Russell Square\, London\, W1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions,Lectures,What's On
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SUMMARY:Insight and Observation: The Life and Work of Gerda Rubinstein (1931-2022)
DESCRIPTION:Gerda Rubinstein was born in Berlin in 1931 to a Christian mother and a Jewish father. The family moved to Amsterdam in 1933\, but her father was taken by the Nazi regime and later died in Monowitz. Gerda first worked in a pottery and then in the studio of Wessel Couzijn. She attended the Rijks Academie\, gaining a grant which enabled her to study in Paris under Ossip Zadkine. Returning to Amsterdam she was awarded her first public sculpture commissions. \nHaving visited Jerusalem where she met Ada Karmi Melamede\, Gerda came to London in 1958 where she met her husband-to-be\, Christopher Stevens\, who had studied architecture at the Architectural Association with Ram Karmi. From the late 1960s onwards\, she was particularly active in Essex\, receiving numerous commissions for public sculptures from the Harlow Arts Trust and for the Gibberd Garden\, Harlow\, including a portrait of architect\, town planner\, landscape architect and art collector Sir Frederick Gibberd. Gerda’s warmly humanist\, naturalistic sculptures remain very popular in Harlow – familiar and well-appreciated\, they inspire real affection. \nAs Gerda herself explained: “My sculptures are almost always of people\, getting my inspiration from where I live. I have also made portraits and modelled birds and animals. I hope that the work\, which is generally figurative\, will be self-explanatory without the need for titles. I have come to realise that the sense of freedom and hope that I experienced as a teenager in Holland\, after five years of occupation in World War II\, has really never left me and that it still colours my work”. \nRoger 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. \nBooking link here
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/insight-and-observation-the-life-and-work-of-gerda-rubinstein-1931-2022/
CATEGORIES:Artforms,Fine Art,Lectures,What's On
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SUMMARY:Exhibition Talk – A secret garden? Fred Kormis and the Memorial to Prisoners of War and Victims of Concentration Camps 1914-1945
DESCRIPTION:This event is organised as part of the Fred Kormis: Sculpting the Twentieth Century event series at The Wiener Holocaust Library\n \nHolocaust memory has become seemingly ubiquitous. New memorials or museums continue to be built\, the Holocaust is on the national education curricula in many countries far away from the sites of atrocity\, and tens of thousands of visitors flock to sites of former concentration or extermination camps or engage online with new forms of digital interpretation and commemoration. \nAt the same time a reappraisal of the history of Holocaust memorialisation by David Cesarani and others suggests that while there has certainly been significant growth in the material manifestations of Holocaust memory since the 1980s\, a focus on this has tended to overlook the memory work that went on during the Holocaust itself and in the decades immediately afterwards. One such marginalised memorial is the ‘prisoners of war and victims of concentration camps 1914-1945’ in Gladstone Park\, located in the suburb of Dollis Hill\, northwest London. \nConceived by renowned Jewish émigré sculptor Fred Kormis in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War and the Holocaust\, the memorial comprises five figures which take the viewer on a symbolic journey through the mental state of a prisoner of war or concentration camp victim. \nUnveiled in 1969\, a decade before the contentious campaign for what would eventually become the Hyde Park Holocaust memorial\, Kormis’s life and work illustrates how Holocaust memory has a history and a geography\, a geography understood as imaginative and well as material. \nThis talk will argue that reconstructing the biography of the Dollis Hill memorial as a site of creative and disruptive practice helps us understand the long\, complex\, and ongoing histories of Holocaust memorialisation in the UK\, including the soon to be completed Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre near the Houses of Parliament. \nAbout the Speaker \nDr Steven Cooke’s work focuses on cultural heritage and difficult histories. Over a thirty-year career in academia and professional practice\, he has authored over 40 scholarly publications\, including three highly commended books on the memory of war and genocide. After a PhD on Britain’s memorial landscapes of the Holocaust\, Steve spent five years in higher education in the UK\, first as a Research Fellow at the University of Stirling then as a Lecturer in Historical and Cultural Geography at the University of Hull. \nIn 2002\, he moved to Australia and worked in high level management positions in some of Victoria’s most significant places\, including the Melbourne Maritime Museum – home of Polly Woodside and the Shrine of Remembrance. In 2011 he returned to academia at Deakin University where he was an Associate Professor of Cultural Heritage and Museum Studies and served as course director for the Cultural Heritage and Museum Studies Programs. He was appointed as Expert to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance Memorials and Museum Working Group by the Australian Government’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in 201. In 2024 Steve was appointed as CEO of the newly redeveloped Melbourne Holocaust Museum. He is an Associate Fellow of the Institute of Languages\, Cultures and Societies at the University of London. \n  \nBooking details here \n  \nImage: Fred Kormis’ memorial to Prisoners of War and Victims of Concentration Camps 1914 – 1945\, Gladstone Park\, London. Photograph: Adam Soller
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/exhibition-talk-a-secret-garden-fred-kormis-and-the-memorial-to-prisoners-of-war-and-victims-of-concentration-camps-1914-1945/
LOCATION:The Wiener Library\, 29 Russell Square\, London\, W1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions,Lectures,What's On
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SUMMARY:Karen Gershon (1923-1993) – Writing my mother’s story: a journey of redefinition
DESCRIPTION:The 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. For her daughter Naomi Shmuel\, writing her story has been a harrowing journey of redefinition as she uncovered stark truths in letters written to her sister over a lifetime. The unfolding story includes both the narrative of a child survivor forced to change languages who became the voice of a whole generation\, and the unfolding tragedy of a very English family largely unaware of their Jewish connection struggling with immigration to Israel and inevitable unsolvable conflicts. Some of the themes of her life – rootlessness\, the never-ending search for a viable identity and sense of home\, the aftershock of the Holocaust – are also clearly apparent in the lives of the next generation – her children. Assembling pieces of the puzzle of her mother’s life made Naomi\, whose  book The Legacy of Karen Gershon: Child Survivor to Author and Poet was recently published by Cambridge Scholars\, question her own. \nNaomi\, herself a prize-winning British-Israeli author with a particular interest in anti-bias education and human and cultural diversity\, will talk about Karen Gershon as her mother and about the experience of writing the book. She will be joined by Phyllis Lassner\, Professor Emerita at The Crown Center for Jewish and Israel Studies\, Gender Studies\, and Writing Program at Northwestern University\, Illinois\, who will discuss Gershon’s literary contribution to the understanding of the Kindertransport experience. \nTo book\, click here \nImage: book cover (detail)
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/karen-gershon/
CATEGORIES:Artforms,Lectures,Literature
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SUMMARY:‘On Dorothy Bohm’: An Illustrated Lecture
DESCRIPTION:Art historian Monica Bohm-Duchen – Dorothy Bohm’s daughter and co-curator of the About Women: Photographs by Dorothy Bohm exhibition currently on show at Burgh House – will give a wide-ranging yet personal illustrated talk about her photographer mother’s remarkable life and career\, which spanned more than seven decades. \nMonica’s talk will be followed by an audience Q&A. \nKindly funded by the Marie-Louise von Motesiczky Charitable Trust. \nTo book\, click here. \nImage: Dorothy Bohm\, Self Portrait\, aged 18 (detail)\, 1942
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/on-dorothy-bohm-an-illustrated-lecture/
LOCATION:Burgh House and Hampstead Museum\, Burgh House\, New End Square\, London\, NW3 1LT\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Artforms,Lectures,Photography
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241112T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241112T200000
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SUMMARY:Exhibition Event – Curators’ talk: Dr Barbara Warnock and Dr Helen Lewandowski
DESCRIPTION:This event is organised as part of the Fred Kormis: Sculpting the Twentieth Century event series at The Wiener Holocaust Library\n \nIn this talk\, Barbara Warnock and Helen Lewandowski will explore the genesis and development of the Fred Kormis: Sculpting the Twentieth Century exhibition\, from the deposit of the Fred Kormis Collection at the Wiener Library shortly after Kormis’ death in 1986\, to its rediscovery by Library staff in recent years\, and the process of the curation of the exhibition. They will discuss the collection and the themes explored in the exhibition. \nThis event includes an opportunity for a private view of the exhibition. \nAbout the speakers:  \nDr Barbara Warnock is the Senior Curator and Head of Education at The Wiener Holocaust Library\, where she has curated the exhibitions Jewish Resistance to the Holocaust\, Berlin-London; The Lost Photographs of Gerty Simon; Fighting Antisemitism from Dreyfus to Today\, and Forgotten Victims: The Nazi Genocide of the Roma and Sinti\, amongst others. She is the author (with John March) of Berlin-London: The Lost Photographs of Gerty Simon (2019)\, a Spectator Book of the Year\, and the editor of Anti-Antisemitism: Countering Anti-Jewish Racism in Western Europe\, 1890-2022 (2022). She has written a number of articles on refugee history\, the Nazi persecution of Roma and the history of The Wiener Holocaust Library. She obtained her Doctorate in Austrian history from Birkbeck College\, University of London\, in 2016. She was for many years a history teacher and examiner. \nDr Helen Lewandowski is an art historian and curator based in London. From 2020 to 2023\, she was Assistant Curator and Project Officer for the Refugee Family Papers at The Wiener Holocaust Library\, where she developed an exhibition on the life and works of Fred Kormis. Her doctoral research at The Courtauld Institute of Art examined aesthetic changes in modern and contemporary photography. She has curated exhibitions\, lectured\, and published on numerous subjects\, spanning photography\, printmaking\, and sculpture. Dr Lewandowski is currently Assistant Curator at the Royal Collection Trust. Previously\, she held curatorial positions at Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art\, Massachusetts College of Art and Design\, and the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum. \n  \nBooking details here \n  \nImage: Fred Kormis in his London studio\, Wiener Holocaust Library Collections
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/exhibition-event-curators-talk-dr-barbara-warnock-and-dr-helen-lewandowski/
LOCATION:The Wiener Library\, 29 Russell Square\, London\, W1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions,Lectures,What's On
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241110T163000
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SUMMARY:Walking Tour - Diverse London - City Public Art by Refugees and Immigrants
DESCRIPTION:Walking Tour \nThe 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. \n\n\n\nBook here. \n\nMeet outside the front of St Botolph’s Church\, Aldgate High Street London EC3N 1AB
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/walking-tour-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:20241107T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241107T200000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241030T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241030T200000
DTSTAMP:20260412T103030
CREATED:20240821T092548Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240919T144252Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241023T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241023T200000
DTSTAMP:20260412T103030
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:20241022T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241022T130000
DTSTAMP:20260412T103030
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:20241021T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241021T193000
DTSTAMP:20260412T103030
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:20241010T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241010T193000
DTSTAMP:20260412T103030
CREATED:20240821T092548Z
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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:20240930T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240930T193000
DTSTAMP:20260412T103030
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:20240923T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240923T193000
DTSTAMP:20260412T103030
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:20240623T133000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240623T163000
DTSTAMP:20260412T103030
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240622
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240624
DTSTAMP:20260412T103030
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/2024-06-22/
CATEGORIES:Architecture,Artforms,Educational events,Symposia
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240621
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240622
DTSTAMP:20260412T103030
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;TZID=Europe/London:20240530T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240530T180000
DTSTAMP:20260412T103030
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;TZID=Europe/London:20240520T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240520T180000
DTSTAMP:20260412T103030
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:20240518T133000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240518T153000
DTSTAMP:20260412T103030
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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240508T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240508T170000
DTSTAMP:20260412T103030
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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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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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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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: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: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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