The Ben Uri Art Society: Emigré Artists 1933-1945
Lecture 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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University of London Senate House Room 243, Malet Street, London, London, United Kingdom
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Schwitters Spoken Loud and Softly: Florian Kaplick live performance
Cample Line Cample Mill, Cample, Dumfriesshire Scotland, United KingdomIn a special event to mark the closing of Heather Ross’ installation The Loud and the Soft Speakers, musician and performer Florian Kaplick (the main protagonist in Ross’s installation) will give a live performance of Kurt Schwitter’s two most iconic works. This will include a performance of Schwitters’ seminal sound poem The Ursonate (approx 40 mins) and a new interpretation of his famous poem An Anna Blume.
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Dorothy Bohm: Colour Photographs
Avivson Gallery 49 Highgate High Street, London, United KingdomThe Avivson Gallery is pleased to announce its next exhibition, a selection of small and exquisite colour prints, many of them images never seen in public before, by doyenne of British photography Dorothy Bohm
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In conversation: Artist Heather Ross and Performer/Musician Florian Kaplick
Cample Line Cample Mill, Cample, Dumfriesshire Scotland, United KingdomAs part of a closing event to mark the end of Heather Ross’s solo show The Loud and the Soft Speakers the artist will be in conversation with the performer Florian Kaplick. They will discuss how they collaborated on the performance within The Loud and the Soft Speakers, the process undertaken in the development and formation of this work and share their thoughts on how this can be contextualised with respect to the work of Kurt Schwitters.
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What Does Woman Want?
Freud Museum London 20 Maresfield Gardens, London, United KingdomThe relation of psychoanalysis, sexuality, and femininity is complex and laden with controversy. From its inception, psychoanalytic thought about female development was largely defined by men. Sabina Spielrein, Anna Freud, Lou Andreas-Salome, and Marie Bonaparte were among the intimate circle of Freud’s Women who challenged the main pillars of the 19th/early 20th century patriarchal social order.
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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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Showcasing Art History: Britain ∩ Europe
Courtauld Institute of Art, Vernon Square Campus Penton Rise, London, Kings Cross, United KingdomEncounters in Art: Kurt Schwitters in Britain
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The Experience of the Kindertransport – Film Screening & Panel Discussion
The Laboratory, Dulwich College Dulwich Common, London, United Kingdom80 years ago 10,000 children came to Britain as unaccompanied refugees on the Kindertransport from Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia, escaping Nazi Europe. Following a screening of some extracts of interviews, the panel discussion with two former Kinder, chaired by Dr Bea Lewkowicz, Director of the AJR Refugee Voices Testimony Archive, will explore how the Kinder adapted in Britain and how they dealt with being separated from their families and their homes
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Between Worlds
Glyndebourne Archive Gallery, Lewes, East Sussex, United KingdomAn exhibition exploring the founding and early years of the Glyndebourne Festival
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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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Showcasing Art History: Britain ∩ Europe
Courtauld Institute of Art, Vernon Square Campus Penton Rise, London, Kings Cross, United KingdomEncounters in Art: Ludwig Meidner and Oskar Kokoschka
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Belonging and Not Belonging: Émigré Artists in Britain after 1933: Lecture by Monica Bohm-Duchen
Jewish Museum London Raymond Burton House 129-131 Albert Street, London, United KingdomAn illustrated talk by Monica Bohm-Duchen, initiator and Creative Director of the Insiders/Outsiders Festival, will focus on the experiences of the émigré artists who found refuge in this country in the wake of Hitler’s accession to power in 1933
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The experience of the Kindertransport in oral history testimonies
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
Charleston Firle, Lewes, East Sussex, United KingdomMonica Bohm-Duchen will discuss the importance of cultural cross-fertilisation with eminent art historian and curator, Norman Rosenthal and novelist Esther Freud
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Towards an Open Land Project: On the Frontline: Jewish and Muslim Poets Speak Out
Nottingham Writers’ Studio 25 Hockley, Nottingham, United KingdomWith poets Amir Darwish, Dr Jennifer Langer, Mohamed Mohamed and Jill Abram. Come and hear their poems and join them in discussion.
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Fifth Biennial Ruth Borchard Self-Portrait Prize Exhibition
Piano Nobile Kings Place 90 York Way, London, Kings Cross, United KingdomCelebrating contemporary British and Irish self-portraiture, the Ruth Borchard prize offers a unique opportunity for new and established artists to compete for £10,000 and an opportunity for their work to be purchased for the Ruth Borchard Next Generation Collection.
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Edith Tudor-Hart and Wolfgang Suschitzky
Tate Britain Millbank, London, London, United KingdomFollowing the rise of Fascism in Vienna in the 1930s, brother and sister Edith Tudor-Hart (1908–73) and Wolfgang Suschitzky (1912–2016) found sanctuary in Britain, where both became leading documentary photographers. This display offers a rare opportunity to see a substantial group of photographs by brother and sister together.
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Showcasing Art History: Britain ∩ Europe
Courtauld Institute of Art, Vernon Square Campus Penton Rise, London, Kings Cross, United KingdomEncounters in Art: Women Émigré Artists: Marie-Louise von Motesiczky, Milein Cosman, Else Meidne
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Berlin/London: The Lost Photographs of Gerty Simon
The Wiener Library 29 Russell Square, London, United KingdomThe Wiener Library’s summer 2019 exhibition showcases the remarkable work of German Jewish photographer Gerty (Gertrud) Simon
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Refugees, Newcomers, Citizens: Migration Stories from Picture Post, 1938-56
Peltz Gallery 43, Gordon Square, London, United KingdomThis exhibition brings together for the first time over sixty original prints by renowned émigré photographers Gerti Deutsch and Kurt Hutton, together with Bert Hardy and Haywood Magee, revealing Picture Post magazine’s stories of refugees and immigrants to Britain from the 1930s to the 1950s.
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‘Jankel Adler: A “Degenerate” Artist in Britain, 1940-49’
Ben Uri Gallery & Museum 108a Boundary Road, off Abbey Road, London, United Kingdom“Adler died last summer in exile without a passport; driftwood cast upon a foreign shore by the European hurricane”.
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Elman Poole Concert: Egon Wellesz and other Emigrés in 1930s Britain
Lincoln College, Oxford Turl St, Oxford, United KingdomThis concert will feature some of Egon Wellesz’ works, written before and after his emigration, alongside those of fellow emigrées Ferdinand Rauter, Karl Rankl, Hans Gál and Robert Kahn, who all have recently featured in the research and performance project ‘Singing a Song in a Foreign Land’ at the Royal College of Music.
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Ellen Ettlinger: A Folklorist Flees the Nazis
Pitt Rivers Museum South Parks Road, Oxford, United KingdomThis display marks the eightieth anniversary of the outbreak of the Second World War by highlighting the work of Ellen Ettlinger, a Jewish folklorist who was forced to flee Germany in 1938 due to persecution by the Nazi regime.
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Book Talk: A Small Dark Quiet
Wiener Library 29 Russell Square, London, United KingdomMiranda Gold will be discussing her haunting novel, A Small Dark Quiet, with writer, critic and former deputy director of English PEN, Catherine Taylor.
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