Postponed Their Safe Haven: Hungarian artists in Britain from the 1930s

The 1920 Treaty of Trianon, signed at Versailles, split Hungary apart, pushing artists westwards. This exhibition follows those who made their lives across the Channel, celebrating a particular contribution to British culture. Read more →

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. Read more →

Refugee Sculptors

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 Read more →

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. Read more →

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. Read more →

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. Read more →

Walter Nessler: Post-war Optimist

A significant display of the work of German-born artist Walter Nessler Read more →

The Ben Uri Art Society: Emigré Artists 1933-1945

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 Read more →

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. Read more →

Looking beyond the Bauhaus: Bauhaus Goes West

Modernism sans frontières

Speaker: Alan Powers Read more →

Aspects of Exile – Lecture Series

Series of lectures, organised by the Research Centre for German & Austrian Exile Studies, at the University of London’s Institute for Modern Languages Research Read more →

Lifelines – an exhibition of drawings and paintings by Milein Cosman

This exhibition presents some of Milein Cosman’s renowned images of musicians, writers and artists, including her husband, Hans Keller. Read more →

The Gift of Music: Cosman Collection

This evening of art, music and history celebrates the donation to the Royal College of Music of Milein Cosman’s collection of drawings of musicians. Read more →