Refuge Britain: Stories of Emigré Designers (film)
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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Refuge Britain – Stories of Emigré Designers
University of London Senate House Room 243, Malet Street, London, London, United KingdomSenate House, University of London Aspects of Exile Refuge Britain – Stories of Emigré Designers Speakers: Anna Nyburg and Robert Sternberg Refuge Britain is a 45 minute documentary film made by Anna Nyburg and Robert Sternberg, which will be screened alongside a Q&A. Framed by the life of a recent refugee from Pakistan, the film uses archive footage and conversations […]
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The Life and Work of Martin Bloch
New College of the Humanities 19 Bedford Square, London, United KingdomCharlotte Grant, talks about her grandfather Martin Bloch (1883-1954), a German-Jewish artist who came to Britain as a refugee in 1934. This talk reflects on Bloch’s artistic vision and considers his legacy as a colourist and teacher.
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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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Brave New Visions
St George Street Gallery, Sotheby’s 1-2 St George Street, London, United KingdomA group of émigrés, who had fled Nazi-dominated Europe, resolved to embrace the future and introduce avant-garde European and British artists to the public and press.
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Brave New Visions
St George Street Gallery, Sotheby’s 1-2 St George Street, London, United KingdomBrave New Visions shows how in bleak post-war London, a group of émigrés who had found sanctuary in Britain in the 1930s re-made their lives and introduced avant-garde European and British artists such as Naum Gabo, Oskar Kokoschka, Kurt Schwitters, Graham Sutherland and Ben Nicholson to the broader public.
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ART-EXIT: 1939 A Very Different Europe
12 Star Gallery Europe House, 32 Smith Square, London, United KingdomThe exhibition shines a spotlight on a very different Europe 80 years ago in the lead up to, and the start of, WW2. It features the forced journeys of many of central Europe’s most distinguished and pioneering artists, who fled tyranny in search of artistic and personal freedoms.
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Artbooks for all, from Vienna to London, Panel Discussion
St George Street Gallery, Sotheby’s 1-2 St George Street, London, United KingdomElly Miller, daughter of Béla Horovitz, co-founder of the Phaidon Press, and Constance Kaine, daughter of Walter Neurath, co-founder of Thames & Hudson, will be in conversation with Anna Nyburg, who has researched the histories of both publishing houses.
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Marie Neurath: Picturing Science
The House of Illustration 2 Granary Square, Kings Cross, London, London, United KingdomMarie Neurath – an émigré graphic designer and author, led a team at the Isotype Institute that produced over 80 illustrated children’s books from 1944-1971. The pioneering collaboration between researchers, artists and writers produced infographics and illustrated diagrams to explain scientific concepts.
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The Realities of Restitution, Panel Discussion
St George Street Gallery, Sotheby’s 1-2 St George Street, London, United KingdomRichard Aronowitz will illustrate the lengthy process of provenance research at Sotheby’s, Shauna Isaac will discuss her family’s landmark restitution victory – United States vs Portrait of Wally, René Gimpel will shed light on a current case involving his family, and Abby Brindley will offer a legal view.
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Navigating the Art World, Panel Discussion
St George Street Gallery, Sotheby’s 1-2 St George Street, London, United KingdomAmanda Gray, Partner, and Jon Sharples, Associate, both of Art Law, Mishcon de Reya LLP and Tom Christopherson, former European General Counsel at Sotheby’s, Legal Consultant at Bonhams, and Head of Art and Law Studies at Sotheby’s Institute of Art and Gilane Tawadros from DACS, will discuss how those entering the art market can best navigate this world – from the very start of their careers to ensuring their standing in the longer term.
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To Catch an Art Thief
St George Street Gallery, Sotheby’s 1-2 St George Street, London, United KingdomRichard ‘Dick’ Ellis, former head of New Scotland Yard’s Art Squad, will unravel the intricacies in finding and recovering stolen art. He will reveal how his leads include an international network of both law enforcement officials and criminals. Dick has solved several high profile cases including the theft of Edvard Munch’s The Scream from Norway’s National Gallery, and Audubon’s Birds of America lifted from the State Library in St. Petersburg.
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Hampstead’s Pioneers of Modern Art
Hampstead Tube Station Hampstead High Street, London, London, United KingdomIn the first half of the 20th century Hampstead was home to some of the era’s most pioneering artists. We will walk in the footsteps of the Slade School artists. In Downshire Hill we learn of the artistic Carline family and will also discuss the role that Roland Penrose, Margaret Gardiner and Fred and Diana Uhlman played in the art world in the years leading up to, and during, the Second World War. We walk to Belsize Park to learn of the Modernists including Henry Moore, Piet Mondrian and Barbara Hepworth whom Herbert Read described as living as a “nest of gentle artists” and conclude with the refugee designers who stayed at the Isokon flats.
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The Laban Summer School
The University of Bedfordshire, Bedford University of Bedfordshire Pollhill Avenue, Bedford, United KingdomEvery year The Laban Guild holds a Summer School which explores the work of modern dance pioneer Rudolf Laban in a contemporary context. The work of Laban, who took refuge in the UK from Germany in 1938, gained great popularity in dance and physical education and still plays a key role in actor training.
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The Pilgrim’s Progress Story: Private View
Martyrs’ Gallery Star Brewery, Castle Ditch Lane, Lewes, United KingdomMartyrs’ Gallery is presenting an exhibition of words and images that depicts and celebrates Hans Feibusch’s allegorical mural Pilgrim’s Progress.
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The Pilgrim’s Progress Story: Exhibition
Martyrs’ Gallery Star Brewery, Castle Ditch Lane, Lewes, United KingdomMartyrs’ Gallery is presenting an exhibition of words and images that depicts and celebrates Hans Feibusch’s allegorical mural Pilgrim’s Progress.
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Kurt Schwitters’ Ursonate performed by Florian Kaplick
Cample Line Cample Mill, Cample, Dumfriesshire Scotland, United KingdomAs part of CAMPLE LINE’s Summer 2019 Edition, Florian Kaplick will perform Kurt Schwitters’ sound poem Ursonate, a vocal piece consisting of four movements, an overture and finale. Schwitters began writing Ursonate in 1922 and first performed it in 1925 before publishing it in 1932 as ‘Sonate in Urlauten’ (Sonata in Primordial Sounds).
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The Freuds in Hampstead Walking Tour
Hampstead London, United KingdomExplore the memories of the Freud family in Hampstead in this walk led by Blue Badge Guide Rachel Kolsky.
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Leave to Land: The Kitchener Camp Rescue, 1939
Jewish Museum London Raymond Burton House 129-131 Albert Street, London, United KingdomA new mobile exhibition about the Kitchener camp rescue of Jewish refugees to Britain in 1939
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Disrupted Lives: Grete Marks and Women in the Holocaust
Pallant House Gallery 8-9 North Pallant, Chichester, West Sussex, United KingdomDr. Agnes Grunwald-Spier MBE, a holocaust survivor, reveals the remarkable story of ceramicist and artist Grete Marks, who fled Nazi Germany in the 1930s.
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Dancing on the Volcano? The History of ‘Weimar Culture’
The Wiener Library 29 Russell Square, London, United KingdomDr Jochen Hung gives a critical introduction to the history of Weimar Republic and the era that shaped Simon and her sitters.
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Conference: The Mad Silkman: Zika & Lida Ascher: Textiles and Fashion
The Museum of Decorative Arts 17. listopadu Street No.2, 110 00 Prague 1, Czech RepublicIn response to the positive reception the exhibition The Mad Silkman. Zika & Lida Ascher: Textiles and Fashion has enjoyed in the Czech Republic and abroad, among scholars and the general public alike, the Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague has decided to host an international conference.
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Germano Facetti: A Nazi labour camp survivor who revolutionised British book design
Italian Cultural Institute in London 39 Belgrave Square, London, United KingdomThe Italian Cultural Institute celebrates Germano Facetti: a Nazi labour camp survivor who changed the face of publishing in Britain.
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Hampstead in the 1930s – A Walking Tour + Visits
As the abundance of wall plaques in the area demonstrates, visual artists have been drawn to the physical and cultural attractions of Hampstead since the late eighteenth century. This London day, however, concentrates on artistic life in Hampstead in the 1930s, the period in which it occupied a unique place in the story of British art and architecture.
£215