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
Loading view.
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
Free – £7.70
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.
Looking beyond the Bauhaus: Accents in Art
The Gallery 70 Cowcross Street, London, London, United KingdomModernism sans frontières
Speaker: Monica Bohm-Duchen
£5 – £12
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
Free
Between Worlds
Glyndebourne Archive Gallery, Lewes, East Sussex, United KingdomAn exhibition exploring the founding and early years of the Glyndebourne Festival
Belonging and Not Belonging: Émigré Artists in Britain after 1933: Lecture by Monica Bohm-Duchen
Jewish Museum London Raymond Burton House 129-131 Albert Street, London, United KingdomAn illustrated talk by Monica Bohm-Duchen, initiator and Creative Director of the Insiders/Outsiders Festival, will focus on the experiences of the émigré artists who found refuge in this country in the wake of Hitler’s accession to power in 1933
Free
The Bauhaus in Britain
Tate Britain Millbank, London, London, United KingdomThis free display considers connections between Germany’s Bauhaus School (1919–33) and the visual arts in Britain
Free
In the Footsteps of Fred Uhlman: Art and Refugees in Hampstead
Hampstead Tube Station Hampstead High Street, London, London, United KingdomWe 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
Brave New Visions
St George Street Gallery, Sotheby's 1-2 St George Street, London, United KingdomA group of émigrés, who had fled Nazi-dominated Europe, resolved to embrace the future and introduce avant-garde European and British artists to the public and press.
Free
Hampstead’s Pioneers of Modern Art
Hampstead Tube Station Hampstead High Street, London, London, United KingdomIn the first half of the 20th century Hampstead was home to some of the era's most pioneering artists. We will walk in the footsteps of the Slade School artists. In Downshire Hill we learn of the artistic Carline family and will also discuss the role that Roland Penrose, Margaret Gardiner and Fred and Diana Uhlman played in the art world in the years leading up to, and during, the Second World War. We walk to Belsize Park to learn of the Modernists including Henry Moore, Piet Mondrian and Barbara Hepworth whom Herbert Read described as living as a “nest of gentle artists” and conclude with the refugee designers who stayed at the Isokon flats.
£9 – £12
In the Footsteps of Fred Uhlman: Art and Refugees in Hampstead
Hampstead Tube Station Hampstead High Street, London, London, United KingdomWe 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
£15 – £19
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
Free
“A Camp full of Once and future Very Important Persons”
University of London Senate House Room 243, Malet Street, London, London, United KingdomLecture: Fred Uhlman and Kurt Schwitters in Internment
Free
Refuge and Renewal: Migration and British Art
Royal West of England Academy Queens Road, Bristol, United KingdomArtist refugees in the last hundred years and their influence on British art
Refuge and Renewal: Migration and British Art
MOMA Machynlleth Heol Penrallt, Machynlleth, Powys, United KingdomThis exhibition looks at how artist refugees in the last hundred years have been received and influenced British art
Free
Hampstead’s Pioneers of Modern Art
Hampstead Tube Station Hampstead High Street, London, London, United KingdomIn the first half of the 20th century Hampstead was home to some of the era's most pioneering artists. We will walk in the footsteps of the Slade School artists. In Downshire Hill we learn of the artistic Carline family and will also discuss the role that Roland Penrose, Margaret Gardiner and Fred and Diana Uhlman played in the art world in the years leading up to, and during, the Second World War. We walk to Belsize Park to learn of the Modernists including Henry Moore, Piet Mondrian and Barbara Hepworth whom Herbert Read described as living as a “nest of gentle artists” and conclude with the refugee designers who stayed at the Isokon flats.
£9 – £12
*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.
Free