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
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17 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
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
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
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.
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
National Portrait Gallery trail and online exhibition
National Portrait Gallery’s 20th Century galleries highlight portraits of or by artist-émigrés from Nazi Europe
Free
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.
Free
Dorothy Bohm: Colour Photographs
The Avivson Gallery is pleased to announce its next exhibition, a selection of small and exquisite colour prints, many of them images never seen in public before, by doyenne of British photography Dorothy Bohm
Fifth Biennial Ruth Borchard Self-Portrait Prize Exhibition
Celebrating contemporary British and Irish self-portraiture, the Ruth Borchard prize offers a unique opportunity for new and established artists to compete for £10,000 and an opportunity for their work to be purchased for the Ruth Borchard Next Generation Collection.
Edith Tudor-Hart and Wolfgang Suschitzky
Following the rise of Fascism in Vienna in the 1930s, brother and sister Edith Tudor-Hart (1908–73) and Wolfgang Suschitzky (1912–2016) found sanctuary in Britain, where both became leading documentary photographers. This display offers a rare opportunity to see a substantial group of photographs by brother and sister together.
Free
18 events,
Showcasing Art History: Britain ∩ Europe
Encounters in Art: Women Émigré Artists: Marie-Louise von Motesiczky, Milein Cosman, Else Meidne
17 events,
18 events,
Berlin/London: The Lost Photographs of Gerty Simon
The Wiener Library’s summer 2019 exhibition showcases the remarkable work of German Jewish photographer Gerty (Gertrud) Simon
Free
18 events,
18 events,
18 events,
21 events,
‘Jankel Adler: A “Degenerate” Artist in Britain, 1940-49’
"Adler died last summer in exile without a passport; driftwood cast upon a foreign shore by the European hurricane".
Refugees, Newcomers, Citizens: Migration Stories from Picture Post, 1938-56
This exhibition brings together for the first time over sixty original prints by renowned émigré photographers Gerti Deutsch and Kurt Hutton, together with Bert Hardy and Haywood Magee, revealing Picture Post magazine’s stories of refugees and immigrants to Britain from the 1930s to the 1950s.
Elman Poole Concert: Egon Wellesz and other Emigrés in 1930s Britain
Elman Poole Concert: Egon Wellesz and other Emigrés in 1930s Britain
This concert will feature some of Egon Wellesz' works, written before and after his emigration, alongside those of fellow emigrées Ferdinand Rauter, Karl Rankl, Hans Gál and Robert Kahn, who all have recently featured in the research and performance project ‘Singing a Song in a Foreign Land’ at the Royal College of Music.
Free
21 events,
Ellen Ettlinger: A Folklorist Flees the Nazis
This display marks the eightieth anniversary of the outbreak of the Second World War by highlighting the work of Ellen Ettlinger, a Jewish folklorist who was forced to flee Germany in 1938 due to persecution by the Nazi regime.
Free
21 events,
22 events,
Book Talk: A Small Dark Quiet
Book Talk: A Small Dark Quiet
Miranda Gold will be discussing her haunting novel, A Small Dark Quiet, with writer, critic and former deputy director of English PEN, Catherine Taylor.
Free
21 events,
23 events,
A Walk through Highgate: Experiments in Urban Living
Discover some of Highgate's twentieth century housing developments in this historic walk through Highgate.
£12
Walter Nessler: Post-war Optimist
A significant display of the work of German-born artist Walter Nessler
22 events,
23 events,
Insiders/Outsiders Talk: Monica Bohm-Duchen
Insiders/Outsiders Talk: Monica Bohm-Duchen
Refugees from the Nazis and their contribution to British visual culture: a talk by art historian, Monica Bohm-Duchen, the creative director of the Insiders Outsiders Festival
£3
25 events,
Edith Tudor-Hart, the Bauhaus and Isokon
Leyla Daybelge and Magnus Englund, authors of new publication 'Isokon and the Bauhaus in Britain' will speak about Bauhaus graduate Edith Tudor-Hart, her photography of the Isokon building and the émigré community in 1930s London.
Celebrating Jewish Architecture – Routemaster Bus Tour
Celebrating Jewish Architecture – Routemaster Bus Tour
Jump on board a classic Routemaster! In this tour with architecture expert Joe Kerr, you will have the chance to see buildings designed by famous Jewish architects whose work was crucial to the rebuilding of twentieth century London
£30
The Social Eye of Picture Post
The Social Eye of Picture Post
Picture Post magazine was the publishing sensation of the 1940s and early 1950s. Founded by anti-Nazi refugee journalists and photographers it blended continental large format photography with British social documentary to produce moving, funny, hard-hiting stories about Britain in times of war and peace. This event will hear from the two co-curators, Professor Amanda Hopkinson and Mike Berlin, about the themes they have explored in the current exhibtion at the Peltz gallery: Refugees, Incomers, Citizens: Migration Stories from Picture Post (4 June-5 July) with Professor Lynda Nead and Professor Steve Edwards in discussion.
Free
23 events,
German-speaking Emigrés in British Theatre and Film
Lecture given by members of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies
Free
24 events,
Friedrich Nagler: A Personal Mythology
Exhibition celebrating the extraordinary work of self-taught Jewish artist Friedrich Nagler, who fled Nazi-occupied Austria in 1938.
Free
Talk: Women Exile Photographers in Britain
Talk: Women Exile Photographers in Britain
When Gerty Simon was forced into exile in 1933 she was one of many photographers who fled Germany and Austria during the 1930s. John March has made a study of the group of two dozen women exile photographers, some well-known, and others with brief or unrecognised careers.
Free
23 events,
22 events,
23 events,
20:20 vision
20:20 vision is a dynamic arts and community legacy project from not-for-profits Salusbury WORLD Refugee Centre and FotoDocument, which celebrates the contribution of refugees to the UK. The project focuses on 20 children from diverse backgrounds who arrived in the UK circa 1999 and casts a long lens over their lives and achievements fast forwarding 20 years later to 2019.
27 events,
‘You, me and those who came before’: Queen Elizabeth Hall
As part of Refugee Week Festival 2019, Counterpoints commissioned the celebrated photographer, Jillian Edelstein to respond to this year’s theme of the festival – ‘You, me and those who came before’. The result is a stunning series of portraits featuring first and second generation ‘refugees’, many of whom are public figures who we would not commonly associate with displacement.
Free
‘You, me and those who came before’: V&A
As part of Refugee Week Festival 2019, Counterpoints commissioned the celebrated photographer, Jillian Edelstein to respond to this year’s theme of the festival – ‘You, me and those who came before’. The result is a stunning series of portraits featuring first and second generation ‘refugees’, many of whom are public figures who we would not commonly associate with displacement.
Free
The Bauhaus in Britain
This free display considers connections between Germany’s Bauhaus School (1919–33) and the visual arts in Britain
Free
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.
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.
Free
25 events,
25 events,
26 events,
26 events,
26 events,
The Life and Work of Friedrich Nagler: A Conversation
Join Friedrich Nagler’s sons, Mervyn and Martin, in a conversation about this extraordinary artist to discuss their father’s life, experience and work.
Free
26 events,
In the Footsteps of Fred Uhlman: Art and Refugees in Hampstead
We visit sites Uhlman was known to frequent and discuss the role of his artistic friends and neighbours and consider other refugees who settled in Hampstead during this time
£9 – £12