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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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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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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Modernist Hampstead Walk
Hampstead Tube Station Hampstead High Street, London, London, United KingdomDiscover the revolutionary Modernist homes and idealistic architecture built in Hampstead in the 1930s
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Isokon and the Bauhaus in Britain: Exhibition
The Aram Gallery 110 Drury Lane, Covent Garden, London, United KingdomDuring 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.
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Isokon and the Bauhaus in Britain: Talk with authors Leyla Daybelge and Magnus Englund
Daunt Books 51 South End Road, London, United KingdomThe 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.
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Modernist Hampstead Walk
Hampstead Tube Station Hampstead High Street, London, London, United KingdomDiscover the revolutionary Modernist homes and idealistic architecture built in Hampstead in the 1930s
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Émigré designers in the V&A’s Archive of Art and Design
V&A Blythe House 23 Blythe Road, London, United KingdomSome 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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Modernist Hampstead Walk
Hampstead Tube Station Hampstead High Street, London, London, United KingdomDiscover the revolutionary Modernist homes and idealistic architecture built in Hampstead in the 1930s
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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
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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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Émigré designers in the V&A’s Archive of Art and Design
V&A Blythe House 23 Blythe Road, London, United KingdomSome 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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Marie Neurath: Picturing Science
The House of Illustration 2 Granary Square, Kings Cross, London, London, United KingdomMarie Neurath – an émigré graphic designer and author, led a team at the Isotype Institute that produced over 80 illustrated children’s books from 1944-1971. The pioneering collaboration between researchers, artists and writers produced infographics and illustrated diagrams to explain scientific concepts.
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Germano Facetti: A Nazi labour camp survivor who revolutionised British book design
Italian Cultural Institute in London 39 Belgrave Square, London, United KingdomThe Italian Cultural Institute celebrates Germano Facetti: a Nazi labour camp survivor who changed the face of publishing in Britain.
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Modernist Hampstead Walk
Hampstead Tube Station Hampstead High Street, London, London, United KingdomDiscover the revolutionary Modernist homes and idealistic architecture built in Hampstead in the 1930s
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Pioneers of Modernism: William Morris and the Bauhaus
Willam Morris Gallery Lloyd Park, Forest Road, London, Walthamstow, United KingdomThe William Morris Gallery’s first major exhibition exploring the relationship between William Morris and the Bauhaus.
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Jacques & Jacqueline Groag
The Isokon Gallery Lawn Road, London, United KingdomThe dramatic and fascinating story of two former Lawn Road Flats residents, brought to life by their biographer, Ursula Prokop.
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Modernist Hampstead Walk
Hampstead Tube Station Hampstead High Street, London, London, United KingdomDiscover the revolutionary Modernist homes and idealistic architecture built in Hampstead in the 1930s
£9 – £12 -
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Modernist Hampstead Walk
Hampstead Tube Station Hampstead High Street, London, London, United KingdomDiscover the revolutionary Modernist homes and idealistic architecture built in Hampstead in the 1930s
£9 – £12