7 events found.
All Day
Art Aiding Politics: Hampstead in the 1930s and ’40s
Burgh House and Hampstead Museum Burgh House, New End Square, London
Free
Beyond Bauhaus – Modernism in Britain 1933–66
Architecture Gallery, RIBA 66 Portland Place, London
Free
László Moholy-Nagy in Britain: Between the New Vision and the New Bauhaus
RIBA First Floor Gallery, 66 Portland Place, London
Free
Migrations: Masterworks from the Ben Uri Collection
Museum of Gloucester Brunswick Road, Gloucester
Free
Child Survivors’ Drawings of the Genocide in Darfur
The Wiener Library 29 Russell Square, London
Free
Holocaust Memorial Day – Songs of Arrival
Manchester Central Library St Peter's Square, Manchester
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
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
Art Aiding Politics: Hampstead in the 1930s and ’40s
Hampstead has been a place of refuge, reflection and community for centuries. This exhibition aims to show the response of some of its most creative residents to the tumultuous political events of the early twentieth century; from the Spanish Civil War to the rise of the Nazi party and the outbreak of the Second World War and beyond.
Free
Beyond Bauhaus – Modernism in Britain 1933–66
This exhibition revisits the impact of three notable Bauhaus émigrés: Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer and László Moholy-Nagy. Centred on the brief period of 1934-37, when they came to live and work in Britain, it traces this fertile moment in British architectural history and considers where its legacy has had the most enduring impact.
Free
László Moholy-Nagy in Britain: Between the New Vision and the New Bauhaus
This display draws on the RIBA’s unique holdings to demonstrate both the range of Moholy-Nagy’s British work and the strong ties that he established with modernist architects in Britain.
Free
Migrations: Masterworks from the Ben Uri Collection
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-Louise von Motesiczky
This free display covers the life and work of Marie-Louise von Motesiczky alongside other émigrés who escaped Nazi Europe for the relative safety of Britain.
Free
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.
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.
Heartfield: One Man’s War
An exhibition of prints by the renowned photomontage artist John Heartfield. A pioneer of German agitprop and an early member of the Berlin Dada group, Heartfield is known as the inventor of political photomontage. 33 of Heartfield’s scathingly satirical artworks against war, fascism and the Third Reich will be on display.
Josef Herman
The first major exhibition for many years to trace the complex life journey of Polish-Jewish artist Josef Herman (1911-2000), from his escape from Nazi-occupied Europe in 1940 through his time spent in Glasgow, South Wales, London and Suffolk.
Refuge and Renewal: Migration and British Art
Artist refugees in the last hundred years and their influence on British art
Albert Reuss Exhibition
The works of Reuss are expected to attract art lovers and those interested in his story and will be an integral part of the Holocaust Memorial Day 2020 display and event.
Free
Child Survivors’ Drawings of the Genocide in Darfur
This exhibition features drawings by child survivors of the genocide and ethnic cleansing perpetrated by Sudanese government forces and the Janjaweed militia against non-Arab Darfuri people since 2003.
Free
George Him: A Polish Designer for Mid-Century Britain
Spanning George Him’s long and versatile career as both an independent designer and as one half of the prolific Lewitt-Him partnership (1933-1954), the exhibition will include iconic wartime propaganda posters for the Ministries of Food and Information, corporate branding for El Al airlines and adverts for clients like Schweppes, Technicolor, the Post Office and The Times.
Monday, January 27, 2020
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January 27, 2020Holocaust Memorial Day – Songs of Arrival
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January 27, 2020Talk: Albert Reuss, Artist and Refugee
Holocaust Memorial Day – Songs of Arrival
As part of Holocaust Memorial Day, Manchester Jewish Museum’s song-writing group will present an initial performance of songs inspired by the moving stories of Jewish Refugees arriving in Cheetham in the 1930s and 1940s.
Free
Talk: Albert Reuss, Artist and Refugee
To commemorate the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz on 27 January 1945, Susan Soyinka, Reuss’s biographer, will be in conversation with Revd John Halkes, who was a personal friend of the artist.
£5
Tuesday, January 28, 2020
No events on this day.
Wednesday, January 29, 2020
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January 29, 2020 –Belonging and not Belonging
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January 29, 2020Gideon Klein: Portrait of a Composer
Belonging and not Belonging
To coincide with Holocaust Memorial Day 2020, Monica Bohm-Duchen, the initiator and Creative Director of the Insiders/Outsiders Festival, will reflect upon her experience of working on the project, and Norbert Meyn, a professional tenor and the initiator of Singing a Song in a Foreign Land will give a talk-cum-recital about his on-going research on émigré musicians and composers.
Free
Gideon Klein: Portrait of a Composer
Written and devised by David Fligg, this theatrical presentation portrays, for the first time, the Czech-Jewish composer Gideon Klein’s pre-war life. Featuring three actors from the MMU School of Theatre, with music by Klein, Mozart, Hindemith and Janáček performed by the Theseus Quartet, it gives an account of artistic and Jewish life in Prague immediately before, and during, the German occupation, and of Gideon’s struggles to survive imprisonment.
£8
Thursday, January 30, 2020
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Friday, January 31, 2020
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Saturday, February 1, 2020
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Sunday, February 2, 2020
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