Witnesses: émigré medallists in Britain
British Museum Gallery 69a, Great Russell Street, London
free
7 events found.
All Day
Little Happenings: Photographs of Children by Dorothy Bohm
V&A Museum of Childhood Cambridge Heath Rd, London
Free
The Mad Silkman: Zika & Lida Ascher: Textiles and Fashion
The Museum of Decorative Arts 17. listopadu Street No.2, 110 00 Prague 1
Anya Lewin: More than Stories: A Film Trilogy
John Hansard Gallery 142-144 Above Bar Street, Southampton
Lifelines – an exhibition of drawings and paintings by Milein Cosman
Clare Hall Herschel Road, Cambridge
Poetry Book Display
The National Poetry Library Level 5, Royal Festival Hall Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London
René Halkett – from Bauhaus to Cornwall
Falmouth Art Gallery Municipal Buildings, The Moor, Falmouth
Free
Isokon and the Bauhaus in Britain: Exhibition
The Aram Gallery 110 Drury Lane, Covent Garden, London
Ongoing
Week of Events
Little Happenings: Photographs of Children by Dorothy Bohm
Special display of photographs of children by leading London-based photographer
Free
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
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
Submissions for Ruth Borchard Self-Portrait Prize
Celebrating contemporary British and Irish self-portraiture
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
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 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.
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 […]
Jewish History Month 2019
The theme of this year’s Jewish History Month is Big Screen Little Screen, Jews in British Cinema and Television.
Poetry Book Display
A display of books by eleven poets from the National Poetry Library collection of refugee poets, or descendents of refugees, who came to Britain from Nazi Europe
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.
Free
Isokon and the Bauhaus in Britain: Exhibition
During 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.
Hans Keller Centenary – Belcea Quartet
On Hans Keller’s birthday itself, the Belcea Quartet perform Haydn’s Op.76 No.2 and Britten’s Third Quartet (which Britten dedicated to Keller).
£14 – £16
Looking beyond the Bauhaus: Accents in Art
Modernism sans frontières
Speaker: Monica Bohm-Duchen
£5 – £12
Four Parts of a Folding Screen
Based on documents found in Berlin archives, Four Parts of a Folding Screen explores exclusion, statelessness and the legalised theft and sale of everyday family possessions by the National Socialist regime.
Hans Keller Centenary Celebration
Cambridge University Library (home of the Hans Keller Archive), the Faculty of Music and Clare Hall combine in a day of talks, discussion and music celebrating Hans Keller’s Centenary.
Monday, March 11, 2019
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Tuesday, March 12, 2019
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Wednesday, March 13, 2019
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March 13, 2019Seeing Daylight: The Photography of Dorothy Bohm
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March 13, 2019Isokon and the Bauhaus in Britain: Talk with authors Leyla Daybelge and Magnus Englund
Seeing Daylight: The Photography of Dorothy Bohm
Screening includes a private viewing of the exhibition Little Happenings: photographs of Children by Dorothy Bohm
£5
Isokon and the Bauhaus in Britain: Talk with authors Leyla Daybelge and Magnus Englund
The 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.
£5
Thursday, March 14, 2019
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Friday, March 15, 2019
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Saturday, March 16, 2019
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Sunday, March 17, 2019
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