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
National Portrait Gallery trail and online exhibition
National Portrait Gallery St Martin’s Place, London
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
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
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
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
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
Internment – Living with the Wire
Discover more about ‘life behind the wire’ and the different ways that interned artists recorded the world around them
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
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.
National Portrait Gallery trail and online exhibition
National Portrait Gallery’s 20th Century galleries highlight portraits of or by artist-émigrés from Nazi Europe
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.
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.
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
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.
Walter Nessler: Post-war Optimist
A significant display of the work of German-born artist Walter Nessler
Edith Tudor-Hart, the Bauhaus and Isokon
Leyla 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.
German-speaking Emigrés in British Theatre and Film
Lecture given by members of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies
Friedrich Nagler: A Personal Mythology
Exhibition celebrating the extraordinary work of self-taught Jewish artist Friedrich Nagler, who fled Nazi-occupied Austria in 1938.
20:20 vision
20:20 vision is a dynamic arts and community legacy project from not-for-profits Salusbury WORLD Refugee Centre and FotoDocument, which celebrates the contribution of refugees to the UK. The project focuses on 20 children from diverse backgrounds who arrived in the UK circa 1999 and casts a long lens over their lives and achievements fast forwarding 20 years later to 2019.
Monday, June 10, 2019
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June 10, 2019Insiders/Outsiders Talk: Monica Bohm-Duchen
Insiders/Outsiders Talk: Monica Bohm-Duchen
Refugees from the Nazis and their contribution to British visual culture: a talk by art historian, Monica Bohm-Duchen, the creative director of the Insiders Outsiders Festival
Tuesday, June 11, 2019
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June 11, 2019Celebrating Jewish Architecture – Routemaster Bus Tour
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June 11, 2019The Social Eye of Picture Post
Celebrating Jewish Architecture – Routemaster Bus Tour
Jump on board a classic Routemaster! In this tour with architecture expert Joe Kerr, you will have the chance to see buildings designed by famous Jewish architects whose work was crucial to the rebuilding of twentieth century London
The Social Eye of Picture Post
Picture Post magazine was the publishing sensation of the 1940s and early 1950s. Founded by anti-Nazi refugee journalists and photographers it blended continental large format photography with British social documentary to produce moving, funny, hard-hiting stories about Britain in times of war and peace. This event will hear from the two co-curators, Professor Amanda Hopkinson and Mike Berlin, about the themes they have explored in the current exhibtion at the Peltz gallery: Refugees, Incomers, Citizens: Migration Stories from Picture Post (4 June-5 July) with Professor Lynda Nead and Professor Steve Edwards in discussion.
Wednesday, June 12, 2019
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Thursday, June 13, 2019
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June 13, 2019Talk: Women Exile Photographers in Britain
Talk: Women Exile Photographers in Britain
When 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.
Friday, June 14, 2019
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Saturday, June 15, 2019
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Sunday, June 16, 2019
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