Witnesses: émigré medallists in Britain
British medallic art spanning six centuries
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British Museum Gallery 69a, Great Russell Street, London, London, United Kingdom
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Mann at War
Manx Museum Manx Museum, Douglas, Isle of Man, United KingdomThe role that the Isle of Man and its people have played in conflict from the 18th Century to present day
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Submissions for Ruth Borchard Self-Portrait Prize
Piano Nobile Kings Place 90 York Way, London, Kings Cross, United KingdomCelebrating contemporary British and Irish self-portraiture
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Witnesses: émigré medallists in Britain – Gallery Talk
British Museum Gallery 69a, Great Russell Street, London, London, United KingdomGallery talk by curator Philip Atwood
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The Merzspiel
Pentameters Theatre 28 Heath Street Entrance Oriel Place, London, London, United KingdomKURT SCHWITTERS has hijacked the body of British actor PAUL BRIGHTWELL in order to re-present MERZ
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Looking beyond the Bauhaus: The New Frankfurt
The Gallery 70 Cowcross Street, London, London, United KingdomModernism sans frontières
Speaker: Wolfgang Voigt, former Deputy Director of the German Architecture Museum (DAM), Frankfurt
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Looking beyond the Bauhaus: The European Academy of the Mediterranean
The Gallery 70 Cowcross Street, London, London, United KingdomModernism sans frontières
Speaker: Ita Heinze-Greenburg, Professor at ETH, Zurich
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Refuge: The Art of Belonging
Abbot Hall Art Gallery Kendal, Cumbria, United KingdomThis exhibition tells the story of artists who entered Britain between 1933 and 1945 as a result of Nazi occupation
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The Gift of Music: Cosman Collection
Royal College of Music Amaryllis Fleming Concert Hall, Prince Consort Road, London, South Kensigton, United KingdomThis evening of art, music and history celebrates the donation to the Royal College of Music of Milein Cosman’s collection of drawings of musicians.
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Lifelines – an exhibition of drawings and paintings by Milein Cosman
Clare Hall Herschel Road, Cambridge, CambridgeThis exhibition presents some of Milein Cosman’s renowned images of musicians, writers and artists, including her husband, Hans Keller.
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Aspects of Exile – Lecture Series
University of London Senate House Room 243, Malet Street, London, London, United KingdomSeries of lectures, organised by the Research Centre for German & Austrian Exile Studies, at the University of London’s Institute for Modern Languages Research
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Looking beyond the Bauhaus: Bauhaus Goes West
The Gallery 70 Cowcross Street, London, London, United KingdomModernism sans frontières
Speaker: Alan Powers
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Margaret Gardiner – A Life of Giving
The Pier Arts Centre Victoria Street, Stromness, Orkney, United KingdomMargaret 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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The Ben Uri Art Society: Emigré Artists 1933-1945
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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Walter Nessler: Post-war Optimist
Pallant House Gallery 8-9 North Pallant, Chichester, West Sussex, United KingdomA significant display of the work of German-born artist Walter Nessler
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Edith Tudor-Hart, the Bauhaus and Isokon
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art 75 Belford Road, Edinburgh, Scotland, United KingdomLeyla 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.
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Talk: Women Exile Photographers in Britain
The Wiener Library 29 Russell Square, London, United KingdomWhen 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.
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Marie-Louise von Motesiczky
Tate Britain Millbank, London, London, United KingdomThis free display covers the life and work of Marie-Louise von Motesiczky alongside other émigrés who escaped Nazi Europe for the relative safety of Britain.
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Refugee Sculptors
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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Josef Herman
Flowers Gallery 82 Kingsland Road, London, United KingdomThe first major exhibition for many years to trace the complex life journey of Polish-Jewish artist Josef Herman (1911-2000), from his escape from Nazi-occupied Europe in 1940 through his time spent in Glasgow, South Wales, London and Suffolk.
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*Postponed* Their Safe Haven: Hungarian artists in Britain from the 1930s
Mercer Art Gallery 31 Swan Road, Harrogate, United KingdomThe 1920 Treaty of Trianon, signed at Versailles, split Hungary apart, pushing artists westwards. This exhibition follows those who made their lives across the Channel, celebrating a particular contribution to British culture.
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