Mann at War
The role that the Isle of Man and its people have played in conflict from the 18th Century to present day
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11 events,
Little Happenings: Photographs of Children by Dorothy Bohm
Special display of photographs of children by leading London-based photographer
Free
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
14 events,
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…
Jewish History Month 2019
The theme of this year's Jewish History Month is Big Screen Little Screen, Jews in British Cinema and Television.
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
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
13 events,
14 events,
18 events,
Modernist Hampstead Walk
Discover the revolutionary Modernist homes and idealistic architecture built in Hampstead in the 1930s
£9 – £12
Jewish Book Week
Aurelia Young, daughter of the sculptor, will be in conversation with art historian Patrick Bade.
£9.50
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
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
17 events,
René Halkett – from Bauhaus to Cornwall
On the 100th anniversary of the formation of the Bauhaus, this exhibition showcases the work of one of its students, René Halkett (1900-1983), who studied under the renowned artists Klee and Kandinsky.
Free
Book Launch, Hans Keller 1919-1985: A musician in dialogue with his times
Alison Garnham and Susi Woodhouse present their new centenary biography of Hans Keller, in an evening of music and readings. 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).
Free
16 events,
17 events,
Words: Insiders / Outsiders
Words: Insiders / Outsiders
Words: Jewish Book Week. Anna Nyburg, Daniel Snowman and Monica Bohm-Duchen. Insiders/Outsiders examines the extraordinarily rich contribution of refugees from Nazi-dominated Europe to the visual culture, art education and art-world structures of the United Kingdom.
£9.50
18 events,
Isokon and the Bauhaus in Britain: Exhibition
During 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.
Looking beyond the Bauhaus: Optimism and aging
Modernism sans frontières
Speaker: Rachel Rose Smith
£5 – £12
17 events,
19 events,
Haunted by History
A 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.
Recollections of Hans Keller
Study 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.
18 events,
A Celebration of Hans Keller
A 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).
18 events,
Hans Keller Centenary – Belcea Quartet
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).
£14 – £16
17 events,
19 events,
Seeing Daylight: The Photography of Dorothy Bohm
Seeing Daylight: The Photography of Dorothy Bohm
Screening includes a private viewing of the exhibition Little Happenings: photographs of Children by Dorothy Bohm
£5
Isokon and the Bauhaus in Britain: Talk with authors Leyla Daybelge and Magnus Englund
Isokon and the Bauhaus in Britain: Talk with authors Leyla Daybelge and Magnus Englund
The 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.
£5
18 events,
Looking beyond the Bauhaus: Accents in Art
Modernism sans frontières
Speaker: Monica Bohm-Duchen
£5 – £12
18 events,
Four Parts of a Folding Screen
Based 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.
18 events,
Hans Keller Centenary Celebration
Cambridge 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.
17 events,
16 events,
16 events,
17 events,
The art market under the Occupation 1940-1944
In the summer of 1941, the French government began confiscating businesses, real estate, financial assets and art works from Jews across the country. Victims of both Nazi and Vichy laws, French Jews were stripped of their property and excluded from every sphere of political, social and economic life – a prelude to their physical elimination. Meanwhile, during the Occupation of 1940-1944, France’s art market thrived.
19 events,
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Talk: ‘Albert Reuss in Mousehole, The Artist As Refugee’
Talk: ‘Albert Reuss in Mousehole, The Artist As Refugee’
Albert 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.
£4 – £7
“Child Migrants Welcome?”
“Child Migrants Welcome?”
Come 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.
£5 – £8.97
18 events,
18 events,
18 events,
18 events,
18 events,
20 events,
London’s Czechoslovak Institute during World War II
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
A Celebration of Czechoslovak Culture in Wartime Britain
Senate 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. The lectures cover a broad…
Free
18 events,
20 events,
Great British Jews: A Celebration
This playful exhibition celebrates the huge contribution that Jews have made to this country across a variety of cultural, scientific and commercial fields.
Free
Insiders/Outsiders: Émigré Poster Designers
London Transport commissioned many of the best émigré designers to produce some of the most distinctive posters on the network
21 events,
Modernist Hampstead Walk
Discover the revolutionary Modernist homes and idealistic architecture built in Hampstead in the 1930s
£9 – £12
20 events,
A Walk through Highgate: Experiments in Urban Living
Discover some of Highgate's twentieth century housing developments in this historic walk through Highgate.
£9 – £12