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
Marie Neurath: Picturing Science
The House of Illustration 2 Granary Square, Kings Cross, London
Maurice Blik: Exhibition & Artist’s Talk
Bowman Sculpture , 6 Duke Street, St James’s SW1Y 6BN, 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
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.
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.
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
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
Friedrich Nagler: A Personal Mythology
Exhibition celebrating the extraordinary work of self-taught Jewish artist Friedrich Nagler, who fled Nazi-occupied Austria in 1938.
The Bauhaus in Britain
This free display considers connections between Germany’s Bauhaus School (1919–33) and the visual arts in Britain
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.
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
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.
Outlook: No Return
New exhibition celebrating the contribution of Polish artists who fled Nazi-dominated Europe to British culture.
Maurice Blik: Exhibition & Artist’s Talk
After decades of making sculpture, in the last two years, Maurice Blik has identified a unique and personal way of working to externalise his thoughts and feelings. Now his sculptures leap, dance, stride, walk, hurry, peer, to express what it feels like to be alive.
Refugees in the Rag Trade
Lecture given by member of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies, based at the Institute for Modern Languages Research, University of London
Flags of Diversity
An exhibition of collage works by artist Gil Mualem-Doron of printed textiles, which will include The New Union Flag. Commissioned by the Mayor of London for “We Are All Londoners: Celebrating Our European Culture and Communities”.
Monday, September 16, 2019
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Tuesday, September 17, 2019
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September 17, 2019On Anna Gmeyner and Elisabeth de Waal: Talk
On Anna Gmeyner and Elisabeth de Waal: Talk
Dr Nadia Valman, senior lecturer in the Department of English at Queen Mary University of London, will give a talk on Anna Gmeyner and Elisabeth de Waal
Wednesday, September 18, 2019
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September 18, 2019The Legacy of the First World War for the Weimar Republic
The Legacy of the First World War for the Weimar Republic
Dr Jochen Hung gives a critical introduction to the history of Weimar Republic and the era that shaped Simon and her sitters.
Thursday, September 19, 2019
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September 19, 2019Lunchtime Lecture: Milein Cosman: Capturing Time
Lunchtime Lecture: Milein Cosman: Capturing Time
Art historian Ines Schlenker introduces the life and varied oeuvre of Milein Cosman (1921–2017). Best known for her drawings of musicians and dancers, she excelled at chronicling contemporary life, developing a unique drawing technique that enabled her to capture the most fleeting of moments.
Friday, September 20, 2019
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Saturday, September 21, 2019
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Sunday, September 22, 2019
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