7 events found.
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The Mad Silkman: Zika & Lida Ascher: Textiles and Fashion
The Museum of Decorative Arts 17. listopadu Street No.2, 110 00 Prague 1
Great British Jews: A Celebration
Jewish Museum London Raymond Burton House 129-131 Albert Street, London
Free
National Portrait Gallery trail and online exhibition
National Portrait Gallery St Martin’s Place, London
Free
Fifth Biennial Ruth Borchard Self-Portrait Prize Exhibition
Piano Nobile Kings Place 90 York Way, London
Berlin/London: The Lost Photographs of Gerty Simon
The Wiener Library 29 Russell Square, London
Free
Refugees, Newcomers, Citizens: Migration Stories from Picture Post, 1938-56
Peltz Gallery 43, Gordon Square, London
‘Jankel Adler: A “Degenerate” Artist in Britain, 1940-49’
Ben Uri Gallery & Museum 108a Boundary Road, off Abbey Road, London
Ongoing
Elman Poole Concert: Egon Wellesz and other Emigrés in 1930s Britain
Lincoln College, Oxford Turl St, Oxford
Free
Week of Events
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
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.
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.
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
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
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
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
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.
‘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”.
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
Walter Nessler: Post-war Optimist
A significant display of the work of German-born artist Walter Nessler
A Walk through Highgate: Experiments in Urban Living
Discover some of Highgate’s twentieth century housing developments in this historic walk through Highgate.
£12
Monday, June 3, 2019
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June 3, 2019Elman 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
Tuesday, June 4, 2019
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Wednesday, June 5, 2019
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Thursday, June 6, 2019
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June 6, 2019Book 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
Friday, June 7, 2019
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Saturday, June 8, 2019
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Sunday, June 9, 2019
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