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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Lubetkin and Goldfinger: Misunderstood Visionaries?
Virtual EventRussian-born Berthold Lubetkin and Hungarian-born Ernö Goldfinger 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.
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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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From Berlin to London: The Industrial Photography of Walter & Rita Nurnberg
Virtual EventNick 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.
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The Lives of Edith Hoffmann, Art Historian
Virtual EventTermed “the first woman editor of the Burlington”, Edith Hoffman wrote the first book in English about Oskar Kokoschka.
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Peter László Péri (1889-1967) – Péri’s People
Virtual EventThis lecture by Arie Hartog will present the results of recent research on Péri and represents a more holistic approach.
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Esther Simpson: The True Story of her Mission to Save Scholars from Hitler’s Persecution
Virtual EventOver 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.
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Memorials, Past and Present: Caren Garfen in conversation with Monica Bohm-Duchen
Virtual EventLondon-based Caren Garfen is an award-winning artist specialising in textiles and meticulous hand stitching underpinned by extensive research.
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Mid-European Art Exhibition
Virtual EventAndrea 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.
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Otti Berger: Weaving for Modernist Architecture
Virtual EventTo 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.
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Across the Land and the Water: The Two Journeys of the Family Basch
Maggs Booksellers 8 Bedford Square, London, United KingdomFilm 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.
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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
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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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