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7 events,
Marianne Grant Holocaust Artworks
Marianne Grant was a Jewish artist and Holocaust survivor from Prague who settled in Glasgow after the end of World War II. She uniquely recorded in drawings her experiences of imprisonment in the concentration camp-ghetto Theresienstadt, the Czech family camp in Auschwitz-Birkenau, German slave labour camps and Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp
Free
Mann at War
The role that the Isle of Man and its people have played in conflict from the 18th Century to present day
Free
Little Happenings: Photographs of Children by Dorothy Bohm
Special display of photographs of children by leading London-based photographer
Free
Lucie Rie: Ceramics and Buttons
The ceramics and buttons produced by one of the most respected potters of the 20th Century are on show in a major new exhibition at the Centre of Ceramic Art
£7.50
Internment – Living with the Wire
Discover more about ‘life behind the wire’ and the different ways that interned artists recorded the world around them
Free
Submissions for Ruth Borchard Self-Portrait Prize
Celebrating contemporary British and Irish self-portraiture
8 events,
8 events,
The Merzspiel
KURT SCHWITTERS has hijacked the body of British actor PAUL BRIGHTWELL in order to re-present MERZ
£10 – £13
9 events,
Looking beyond the Bauhaus: The New Frankfurt
Modernism sans frontières
Speaker: Wolfgang Voigt, former Deputy Director of the German Architecture Museum (DAM), Frankfurt
£5 – £12
8 events,
Looking beyond the Bauhaus: The European Academy of the Mediterranean
Modernism sans frontières
Speaker: Ita Heinze-Greenburg, Professor at ETH, Zurich
£5 – £12
9 events,
The Mad Silkman: Zika & Lida Ascher: Textiles and Fashion
The story of Zika and Lída Ascher who left Czechoslovakia before the outbreak of WW2 and built a textile empire in the United Kingdom which supplied fabrics to the international fashion industry from the 40‘s.
Refuge: The Art of Belonging
This exhibition tells the story of artists who entered Britain between 1933 and 1945 as a result of Nazi occupation
Free – £7.70
10 events,
Anya Lewin: More than Stories: A Film Trilogy
More than Stories is an exhibition comprising a trilogy of films inspired by Anya Lewin’s family photographs and stories, and their interconnections with history and public archives. Each film has at its heart the haunted memories of Jewish life embedded in a particular story passed down to Lewin by her father.
10 events,
10 events,
10 events,
11 events,
The Gift of Music: Cosman Collection
This evening of art, music and history celebrates the donation to the Royal College of Music of Milein Cosman’s collection of drawings of musicians.
£5
11 events,
Looking beyond the Bauhaus: Reform not Revolution
Modernism sans frontières
Speaker: Kathleen James-Chakraborty
£5 – £12
10 events,
10 events,
11 events,
Lifelines – an exhibition of drawings and paintings by Milein Cosman
This exhibition presents some of Milein Cosman's renowned images of musicians, writers and artists, including her husband, Hans Keller.
11 events,
14 events,
The Merzspiel
KURT SCHWITTERS has hijacked the body of British actor PAUL BRIGHTWELL in order to re-present MERZ, his one-man art movement, live on stage
£7 – £12
Jewish History Month 2019
The theme of this year's Jewish History Month is Big Screen Little Screen, Jews in British Cinema and Television.
Albert Reuss in Mousehole
Interior II (Stones and Wood), oil on canvas, 1971, by Albert Reuss Penlee House Museum and Gallery, Penzance, Cornwall The Artist as Refugee This exhibition commemorates Albert Reuss (1889-1975) who 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…
15 events,
Britain and the British in Novels and Memoirs
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
Free
Aspects of Exile – Lecture Series
Aspects of Exile – Lecture Series
Series of lectures, organised by the Research Centre for German & Austrian Exile Studies, at the University of London’s Institute for Modern Languages Research
Free
14 events,
Looking beyond the Bauhaus: Bauhaus Goes West
Modernism sans frontières
Speaker: Alan Powers
£5 – £12
14 events,
18 events,
Modernist Hampstead Walk
Discover the revolutionary Modernist homes and idealistic architecture built in Hampstead in the 1930s
£9 – £12
Poetry Book Display
A display of books by eleven poets from the National Poetry Library collection of refugee poets, or descendents of refugees, who came to Britain from Nazi Europe
Jewish Book Week
Aurelia Young, daughter of the sculptor, will be in conversation with art historian Patrick Bade.
£9.50
Being Second Generation with Gaby Glassman
Being Second Generation with Gaby Glassman
More than 70 years after the Holocaust, children of survivors and refugees will explore together how it has affected their lives.
£9