7 events found.
All Day
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
Marie Neurath: Picturing Science
The House of Illustration 2 Granary Square, Kings Cross, London
£4 – £8.25
Conference: The Mad Silkman: Zika & Lida Ascher: Textiles and Fashion
The Museum of Decorative Arts 17. listopadu Street No.2, 110 00 Prague 1
Ongoing
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
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.
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
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
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
Friedrich Nagler: A Personal Mythology
Exhibition celebrating the extraordinary work of self-taught Jewish artist Friedrich Nagler, who fled Nazi-occupied Austria in 1938.
Free
The Bauhaus in Britain
This free display considers connections between Germany’s Bauhaus School (1919–33) and the visual arts in Britain
Free
ART-EXIT: 1939 A Very Different Europe
The exhibition shines a spotlight on a very different Europe 80 years ago in the lead up to, and the start of, WW2. It features the forced journeys of many of central Europe’s most distinguished and pioneering artists, who fled tyranny in search of artistic and personal freedoms.
Free
Marie Neurath: Picturing Science
Marie 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.
£4 – £8.25
Conference: The Mad Silkman: Zika & Lida Ascher: Textiles and Fashion
In response to the positive reception the exhibition The Mad Silkman. Zika & Lida Ascher: Textiles and Fashion has enjoyed in the Czech Republic and abroad, among scholars and the general public alike, the Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague has decided to host an international conference.
Hampstead in the 1930s – A Walking Tour + Visits
As the abundance of wall plaques in the area demonstrates, visual artists have been drawn to the physical and cultural attractions of Hampstead since the late eighteenth century. This London day, however, concentrates on artistic life in Hampstead in the 1930s, the period in which it occupied a unique place in the story of British art and architecture.
£215
20:20 Stories of Moving Lineage
20:20 is a multimedia, touring arts and heritage project that casts a long lens over the personal memories of refugee families who arrived in the UK from 1999 onwards from Kosovo and other major global conflicts.
The Art of Eugene Halliday and Käthe Schuftan
Käthe Schuftan was a Jewish artist who escaped from Berlin in June 1939. Her work was linked with both Käthe Kollwitz and the Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) movement, including Otto Dix and George Grosz.
Selected dates from September to April
Free
The Bauhaus in Bristol
The Ken Stradling Collection is very pleased to be taking part in the international celebrations marking the centenary of the Bauhaus.
Free
Outlook: No Return
New exhibition celebrating the contribution of Polish artists who fled Nazi-dominated Europe to British culture.
Monday, September 9, 2019
No events on this day.
Tuesday, September 10, 2019
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September 10, 2019Germano Facetti: A Nazi labour camp survivor who revolutionised British book design
Germano Facetti: A Nazi labour camp survivor who revolutionised British book design
The Italian Cultural Institute celebrates Germano Facetti: a Nazi labour camp survivor who changed the face of publishing in Britain.
Free
Wednesday, September 11, 2019
No events on this day.
Thursday, September 12, 2019
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September 12, 2019The Face of Weimar Culture
The Face of Weimar Culture
Taking Gerty Simon’s striking image (c. 1929) of the sculptor Renée Sintenis as a starting point, this talk will explore Simon’s photographs as part of a wider culture of the artistic face and body in Weimar modernity.
Free
Friday, September 13, 2019
No events on this day.
Saturday, September 14, 2019
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September 14, 2019 –Insiders/Outsiders: Refugee Dancers from Nazi Europe and their Contribution to British Culture
Insiders/Outsiders: Refugee Dancers from Nazi Europe and their Contribution to British Culture
This one-day symposium will examine the contribution of refugee dancers from Nazi Europe and their contribution to British Culture.
Free
Sunday, September 15, 2019
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September 15, 2019Talk: Outlook: No Return
Talk: Outlook: No Return
New exhibition celebrating the contribution of Polish artists who fled Nazi-dominated Europe to British culture.