Walter Nessler: Post-war Optimist
A significant display of the work of German-born artist Walter Nessler
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Pallant House Gallery 8-9 North Pallant, Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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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
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Edith Tudor-Hart, the Bauhaus and Isokon
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art 75 Belford Road, Edinburgh, Scotland, United KingdomLeyla Daybelge and Magnus Englund, authors of new publication ‘Isokon and the Bauhaus in Britain’ will speak about Bauhaus graduate Edith Tudor-Hart, her photography of the Isokon building and the émigré community in 1930s London.
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Celebrating Jewish Architecture – Routemaster Bus Tour
Jewish Museum London Raymond Burton House 129-131 Albert Street, London, United KingdomJump on board a classic Routemaster! In this tour with architecture expert Joe Kerr, you will have the chance to see buildings designed by famous Jewish architects whose work was crucial to the rebuilding of twentieth century London
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The Social Eye of Picture Post
Birkbeck Cinema 43 Gordon Square, London, United KingdomPicture Post magazine was the publishing sensation of the 1940s and early 1950s. Founded by anti-Nazi refugee journalists and photographers it blended continental large format photography with British social documentary to produce moving, funny, hard-hiting stories about Britain in times of war and peace. This event will hear from the two co-curators, Professor Amanda Hopkinson and Mike Berlin, about the themes they have explored in the current exhibtion at the Peltz gallery: Refugees, Incomers, Citizens: Migration Stories from Picture Post (4 June-5 July) with Professor Lynda Nead and Professor Steve Edwards in discussion.
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German-speaking Emigrés in British Theatre and Film
University of London Senate House Room 243, Malet Street, London, London, United KingdomLecture given by members of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies
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Friedrich Nagler: A Personal Mythology
Hove Museum and Art Gallery 19 New Church Road, Hove, East Sussex, United KingdomExhibition celebrating the extraordinary work of self-taught Jewish artist Friedrich Nagler, who fled Nazi-occupied Austria in 1938.
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Talk: Women Exile Photographers in Britain
The Wiener Library 29 Russell Square, London, United KingdomWhen Gerty Simon was forced into exile in 1933 she was one of many photographers who fled Germany and Austria during the 1930s. John March has made a study of the group of two dozen women exile photographers, some well-known, and others with brief or unrecognised careers.
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20:20 vision
Victoria and Albert Museum Cromwell Road, London, South Kensigton, United Kingdom20:20 vision is a dynamic arts and community legacy project from not-for-profits Salusbury WORLD Refugee Centre and FotoDocument, which celebrates the contribution of refugees to the UK. The project focuses on 20 children from diverse backgrounds who arrived in the UK circa 1999 and casts a long lens over their lives and achievements fast forwarding 20 years later to 2019.
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‘You, me and those who came before’: V&A
V&A Cromwell Rd, Knightsbridge, London, United KingdomAs part of Refugee Week Festival 2019, Counterpoints commissioned the celebrated photographer, Jillian Edelstein to respond to this year’s theme of the festival – ‘You, me and those who came before’. The result is a stunning series of portraits featuring first and second generation ‘refugees’, many of whom are public figures who we would not commonly associate with displacement.
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‘You, me and those who came before’: Queen Elizabeth Hall
Southbank Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, United KingdomAs part of Refugee Week Festival 2019, Counterpoints commissioned the celebrated photographer, Jillian Edelstein to respond to this year’s theme of the festival – ‘You, me and those who came before’. The result is a stunning series of portraits featuring first and second generation ‘refugees’, many of whom are public figures who we would not commonly associate with displacement.
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The Bauhaus in Britain
Tate Britain Millbank, London, London, United KingdomThis free display considers connections between Germany’s Bauhaus School (1919–33) and the visual arts in Britain
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Émigré designers in the V&A’s Archive of Art and Design
V&A Blythe House 23 Blythe Road, London, United KingdomSome of the most important contributors to British design in the mid- and late-twentieth century were Jewish émigrés, many of whom who escaped Nazi Germany in the 1930s or survived the persecution of the Second World War to make their homes in Britain in the 1940s. The working archives, and some private papers, of 28 Jewish designers and practitioners are represented in the AAD.
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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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Drumstick
Trinity Laban Bonnie Bird Theatre Laban Building, Creekside, London, United KingdomDance performance of re-imagined “lost” Laban work, Drumstick
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The Life and Work of Friedrich Nagler: A Conversation
Hove Museum and Art Gallery 19 New Church Road, Hove, East Sussex, United KingdomJoin Friedrich Nagler’s sons, Mervyn and Martin, in a conversation about this extraordinary artist to discuss their father’s life, experience and work.
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In the Footsteps of Fred Uhlman: Art and Refugees in Hampstead
Hampstead Tube Station Hampstead High Street, London, London, United KingdomWe 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
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Grete Marks
Pallant House Gallery 8-9 North Pallant, Chichester, West Sussex, United KingdomAn exhibition of intimate portrait paintings and drawings by Grete Marks
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1000 Londoners: Windrush Generation
Birkbeck Cinema 43 Gordon Square, London, United KingdomBirkbeck is delighted to host a screening of 1000 Londoners: Windrush Generations, part of an award winning series of documentary portraits of Londoners from Chocolate Films. This screening accompanies the Peltz gallery’s current exhibition Refugees, Newcomers, Citizens: Migration Stories from Picture Post, 1938-1956 (the Peltz Gallery, 3 June-4 July)
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Insiders/Outsiders – An Evening with Monica Bohm-Duchen and Sir Norman Rosenthal
Waterstones 68-69 Hampstead High Street, London, United KingdomInsiders/Outsiders, published by Lund Humphries to accompany the nationwide arts festival, examines the extraordinarily rich and pervasive contribution of refugees from Nazi-dominated Europe. Independent art historian Monica Bohm-Duchen, initiator and Creative Director of the festival, will be in conversation with Sir Norman Rosenthal, Exhibitions Secretary of the Royal Academy of Arts, London between 1977 and 2008, to discuss their shared interest – both personal and professional – in the rich cultural terrain covered by the book.
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Naomi Blake 1924-2018 – Artist Open House
Artists’ Open House 41 Woodside Avenue, London, United KingdomFor 50 years Naomi Blake gave life and shape to sculpture dedicated to victims of the Holocaust, while expressing positive hopes for the future and the promotion of understanding between faiths. As part of the East Finchley Artists Open House Festival you are now invited to view Naomi’s home, studio and beautiful sculpture and hear her inspirational story.
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Destroy, and you create… Gustav Metzger in King’s Lynn curated by Dr Elizabeth Fisher
Fermoy Gallery 7-9 St George's Courtyard (off King Street), King's Lynn, Norfolk, United KingdomAn exhibition of early works by internationally renowned artist Gustav Metzger (1926-2017), made while living and working in King’s Lynn in the 1950s.
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Naomi Blake 1924-2018 – Artist Open House
Artists’ Open House 41 Woodside Avenue, London, United KingdomFor 50 years Naomi Blake gave life and shape to sculpture dedicated to victims of the Holocaust, while expressing positive hopes for the future and the promotion of understanding between faiths. As part of the East Finchley Artists Open House Festival you are now invited to view Naomi’s home, studio and beautiful sculpture and hear her inspirational story.
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Being Second Generation: with Gaby Glassman
JW3 341-351 Finchley Road, London, United KingdomMore than 70 years after the Holocaust, children of survivors and refugees will explore together how it has affected their lives. This workshop will be led by Gaby Glassman, a psychologist and psychotherapist who has facilitated second generation and intergenerational groups in the UK and abroad since the 1980s.
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