Looking beyond the Bauhaus: Optimism and aging
Modernism sans frontières
Speaker: Rachel Rose Smith
£5 – £12
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The Gallery 70 Cowcross Street, London, London, United Kingdom
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Isokon and the Bauhaus in Britain: Exhibition
The Aram Gallery 110 Drury Lane, Covent Garden, London, United KingdomDuring the mid-1930s and 1940s the Isokon flats and bar became a hub for creatives, including Bauhaus professors Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer and László Moholy-Nagy. The three produced furniture, architecture and graphic art for Jack Pritchard’s Isokon design company.
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Recollections of Hans Keller
Wigmore Hall 36 Wigmore Street, London, United KingdomStudy day and concert celebrating Hans Keller’s centenary, featuring discussion with musicians who knew Keller, a music workshop, film showing and concert by the Elias Quartet.
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Haunted by History
Birkbeck Cinema 43 Gordon Square, London, United KingdomA selection of recent essay films – poignant, thought-provoking, sometimes darkly humorous and frequently disturbing – made by UK-based members of the so-called ‘Second Generation’, namely, the children of refugees from Nazi Europe and/or Holocaust survivors, whose work explores the complex and necessarily problematic legacy of their families’ experiences.
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A Celebration of Hans Keller
The Menuhin Hall Cobham Road, Stoke d'Abernon, Surrey, United KingdomA celebration of Hans Keller by the Yehudi Menuhin School, where Keller taught chamber music in the 1980s.
On Hans Keller’s birthday itself, the Belcea Quartet perform Haydn’s Op.76 No.2 and Britten’s Third Quartet (which Britten dedicated to Keller). -
Hans Keller Centenary – Belcea Quartet
Wigmore Hall 36 Wigmore Street, London, United KingdomOn Hans Keller’s birthday itself, the Belcea Quartet perform Haydn’s Op.76 No.2 and Britten’s Third Quartet (which Britten dedicated to Keller).
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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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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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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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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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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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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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