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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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
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
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.
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…
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.
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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.
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
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.
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National Portrait Gallery trail and online exhibition
National Portrait Gallery’s 20th Century galleries highlight portraits of or by artist-émigrés from Nazi Europe
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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
Great British Jews: A Celebration – Curator talk
This 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’
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.
£3 – £4
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Litz Pisk’s Pedagogic and Artistic Influence on Post-War British Theatre
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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Anna Freud and the Conscience of Society
Drawing on a wealth of still and video archival materials, this new digital exhibit brings to life the fascinating intersection of psychoanalysis and education.
£8 – £10
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Margaret Gardiner – A Life of Giving
Margaret Gardiner was born on 22 April 1904. An early activist against fascism and war, in 1936 she became honorary secretary of For Intellectual Liberty, a rallying point throughout the Second World War for writers, artists and academics in active defence of peace, liberty and culture.
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Maurice Blik Plasters: The Artist at Eighty
Born 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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The Laban Lecture
Every year The Laban Guild celebrates the legacy of Rudolf Laban through a lecture from a leading academic or practitioner who actively promotes the work and heritage of this modern dance pioneer, who took refuge in the UK from Germany in 1938. This is part of the annual conference /AGM
£25 – £95
Marie-Louise von Motesiczky: The Forgotten Expressionist
Marie-Louise von Motesiczky: The Forgotten Expressionist
Join us for a special lecture on the artist on Sunday 28th April – ‘Marie-Louise von Motesiczky: The Forgotten Expressionist’, given by Dr Ines Schlenker. Please note: this event was previously scheduled for Sunday 24th March.
£4.50
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Showcasing Art History: Britain ∩ Europe
Encounters in Art: Refugees from Nazi Europe and their Contribution to British Visual Culture
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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
Yom Hashoah Commemorative Concert
Yom Hashoah Commemorative Concert
To commemorate the six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust, the internationally renowned Zemel Choir will be performing in concert at JW3.
£16 – £20
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Sculpting After the Holocaust
This year on Yom Hashoah we remember the Holocaust through the experience and sculpture of Naomi Blake, who through her abstract and semi figurative pieces, sought to promote understanding between faiths. We will also be introduced - through a recently produced film - to the powerful sculpture of Maurice Blik. Naomi’s protective, nurturing and hopeful style, together with Maurice’s strong, defiant, outward-reaching forms, demonstrate contrasting but equally positive expressions of their experiences as survivors of the Holocaust.
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Penny Lecture: Michael Tippett – The Biography by Oliver Soden
Writer and broadcaster Oliver Soden introduces his new biography of composer Michael Tippett with a lecture illustrated by live performances from Morley College’s students and tutors.
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Émigré designers in the V&A’s Archive of Art and Design
Émigré designers in the V&A’s Archive of Art and Design
Some 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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