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
£9 – £12
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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
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
Free
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
Free
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
£16
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.
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.
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.
Free
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
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
Free
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.
‘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".
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.
Free
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.
Free
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.
Free
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.
£12
Walter Nessler: Post-war Optimist
Pallant House Gallery 8-9 North Pallant, Chichester, West Sussex, United KingdomA significant display of the work of German-born artist Walter Nessler
Insiders/Outsiders Talk: Monica Bohm-Duchen
Five Leaves Bookshop 14a Long Row, Nottingham, United KingdomRefugees from the Nazis and their contribution to British visual culture: a talk by art historian, Monica Bohm-Duchen, the creative director of the Insiders Outsiders Festival
£3