Seeing Daylight: The Photography of Dorothy Bohm
Screening includes a private viewing of the exhibition Little Happenings: photographs of Children by Dorothy Bohm
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Isokon and the Bauhaus in Britain: Talk with authors Leyla Daybelge and Magnus Englund
Daunt Books 51 South End Road, London, United KingdomThe hugely influential Lawn Road Flats, or Isokon building, was commissioned by visionary couple Jack and Molly Pritchard and designed by architect Wells Coates. Isokon and the Bauhaus in Britain (Batsford) by Leyla Daybelge and Magnus Englund tells the extraordinary story of Isokon, and how its network of residents helped shape modern Britain.
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Looking beyond the Bauhaus: Accents in Art
The Gallery 70 Cowcross Street, London, London, United KingdomModernism sans frontières
Speaker: Monica Bohm-Duchen
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Four Parts of a Folding Screen
Birkbeck Cinema 43 Gordon Square, London, United KingdomBased on documents found in Berlin archives, Four Parts of a Folding Screen explores exclusion, statelessness and the legalised theft and sale of everyday family possessions by the National Socialist regime.
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Hans Keller Centenary Celebration
Clare Hall Herschel Road, Cambridge, CambridgeCambridge University Library (home of the Hans Keller Archive), the Faculty of Music and Clare Hall combine in a day of talks, discussion and music celebrating Hans Keller’s Centenary.
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The art market under the Occupation 1940-1944
Mémorial de la Shoah 17, rue Geoffroy l’Asnier, Paris, FranceIn the summer of 1941, the French government began confiscating businesses, real estate, financial assets and art works from Jews across the country. Victims of both Nazi and Vichy laws, French Jews were stripped of their property and excluded from every sphere of political, social and economic life – a prelude to their physical elimination. Meanwhile, during the Occupation of 1940-1944, France’s art market thrived.
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Talk: ‘Albert Reuss in Mousehole, The Artist As Refugee’
Royal Cornwall Museum River Street, Truro, Cornwall, United KingdomAlbert Reuss (1889-1975) was a Jewish émigré artist. Born in Vienna, he fled to England in 1938 to escape Nazi persecution, losing family, possessions and his reputation as an artist. In 1948, he moved to Mousehole, Cornwall, where he continued to work as an artist, but his style changed dramatically, reflecting the trauma he had suffered.
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“Child Migrants Welcome?”
Migration Museum at The Workshop 26 Lambeth High Street, London, United KingdomCome to the screening of a series of short films about the welcome and non-welcome experienced by young people who have migrated to the UK – from Syrian children on the Isle of Bute in Scotland, to Iraqi Kurdish youth in Norwich, to Eritreans in Harrow and Polish children in Sidmouth.
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Marie-Louise von Motesiczky
New Walk Museum and Art Gallery 53 New Walk, Leicester, Leicester, United KingdomDisplay of gifted artworks
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A Celebration of Czechoslovak Culture in Wartime Britain
University of London Senate House Room 243, Malet Street, London, London, United KingdomSenate House, University of London Aspects of Exile This series of lectures, running from February to December 2019, will be given by members of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies, based at the Institute for Modern Languages Research, University of London, who all have a strong interest in German-speaking exile from Nazism. […]
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London’s Czechoslovak Institute during World War II
University of London Senate House Room 243, Malet Street, London, London, United KingdomLecture given by member of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies, based at the Institute for Modern Languages Research, University of London
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Insiders/Outsiders: Émigré Poster Designers
London Transport Museum Covent Garden Piazza, London, United KingdomLondon Transport commissioned many of the best émigré designers to produce some of the most distinctive posters on the network
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Great British Jews: A Celebration
Jewish Museum London Raymond Burton House 129-131 Albert Street, London, United KingdomThis playful exhibition celebrates the huge contribution that Jews have made to this country across a variety of cultural, scientific and commercial fields.
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Modernist Hampstead Walk
Hampstead Tube Station Hampstead High Street, London, London, United KingdomDiscover the revolutionary Modernist homes and idealistic architecture built in Hampstead in the 1930s
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A Walk through Highgate: Experiments in Urban Living
Opposite the Woodman Pub Archway Road, London, Highgate, United KingdomDiscover some of Highgate’s twentieth century housing developments in this historic walk through Highgate.
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National Portrait Gallery trail and online exhibition
National Portrait Gallery St Martin’s Place, London, United KingdomNational Portrait Gallery’s 20th Century galleries highlight portraits of or by artist-émigrés from Nazi Europe
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The Tailor of Inverness – Theatre Tour
The Tailor of Inverness is one of the most widely travelled and highly praised Scottish theatre productions of the last decade. Written and performed by Matthew Zajac
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Great British Jews: A Celebration – Curator talk
Jewish Museum London Raymond Burton House 129-131 Albert Street, London, United KingdomThis playful exhibition celebrates the huge contribution that Jews have made to this country across a variety of cultural, scientific and commercial fields.
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Talk: ‘Albert Reuss in Mousehole, The Artist As Refugee’
Penlee House Gallery & Museum Morrab Road, Penzance, Cornwall, United KingdomAlbert Reuss (1889-1975) was a Jewish émigré artist. Born in Vienna, he fled to England in 1938 to escape Nazi persecution, losing family, possessions and his reputation as an artist. In 1948, he moved to Mousehole, Cornwall, where he continued to work as an artist, but his style changed dramatically, reflecting the trauma he had suffered.
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Litz Pisk’s Pedagogic and Artistic Influence on Post-War British Theatre
University of London Senate House Room 243, Malet Street, London, London, United KingdomLecture given by member of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies, based at the Institute for Modern Languages Research, University of London
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Anna Freud and the Conscience of Society
Freud Museum London 20 Maresfield Gardens, London, United KingdomDrawing on a wealth of still and video archival materials, this new digital exhibit brings to life the fascinating intersection of psychoanalysis and education.
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Margaret Gardiner – A Life of Giving
The Pier Arts Centre Victoria Street, Stromness, Orkney, United KingdomMargaret Gardiner was born on 22 April 1904. An early activist against fascism and war, in 1936 she became honorary secretary of For Intellectual Liberty, a rallying point throughout the Second World War for writers, artists and academics in active defence of peace, liberty and culture.
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Maurice Blik Plasters: The Artist at Eighty
Sculpt Gallery Braxted Park Road, Gt. Braxted, Essex, United KingdomBorn in Amsterdam, Holland in 1939 and having survived Bergen-Belsen concentration camp as a child, Maurice Blik arrived in the UK aged seven. The ability to come to terms with this and to confront the face of humanity that he had witnessed, stayed silent in him for some forty years until it found a voice in the passionate and exquisite sculpture he began to produce in the late 1980s.
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The Laban Lecture
The Place 17 Duke's Road, London, United KingdomEvery year The Laban Guild celebrates the legacy of Rudolf Laban through a lecture from a leading academic or practitioner who actively promotes the work and heritage of this modern dance pioneer, who took refuge in the UK from Germany in 1938. This is part of the annual conference /AGM
£25 – £95