Tag: Art

  • Josef Herman

    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.

  • Talk: 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.

  • Lifelines – an exhibition of drawings and paintings by Milein Cosman

    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.

  • The Gift of Music: Cosman Collection

    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.

  • Edith Tudor-Hart, the Bauhaus and Isokon

    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.

  • Mann at War

    Mann at War

    The role that the Isle of Man and its people have played in conflict from the 18th Century to present day

  • Looking beyond the Bauhaus: Bauhaus Goes West

    Looking beyond the Bauhaus: Bauhaus Goes West

    Modernism sans frontières Speaker: Alan Powers

  • Looking beyond the Bauhaus: The European Academy of the Mediterranean

    Looking beyond the Bauhaus: The European Academy of the Mediterranean

    Modernism sans frontières Speaker: Ita Heinze-Greenburg, Professor at ETH, Zurich

  • Looking beyond the Bauhaus: The New Frankfurt

    Looking beyond the Bauhaus: The New Frankfurt

    Modernism sans frontières Speaker: Wolfgang Voigt, former Deputy Director of the German Architecture Museum (DAM), Frankfurt

  • The Merzspiel

    The Merzspiel

    KURT SCHWITTERS has hijacked the body of British actor PAUL BRIGHTWELL in order to re-present MERZ

  • Marie-Louise von Motesiczky

    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.

  • Submissions for Ruth Borchard Self-Portrait Prize

    Submissions for Ruth Borchard Self-Portrait Prize

    Celebrating contemporary British and Irish self-portraiture

  • Refugee Sculptors

    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

  • The Ben Uri Art Society: Emigré Artists 1933-1945

    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

  • Aspects of Exile – Lecture Series

    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

  • Margaret Gardiner – A Life of Giving

    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.

  • Refuge: The Art of Belonging

    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

  • Witnesses: émigré medallists in Britain – Gallery Talk

    Witnesses: émigré medallists in Britain – Gallery Talk

    Gallery talk by curator Philip Atwood

  • Witnesses: émigré medallists in Britain

    Witnesses: émigré medallists in Britain

    British medallic art spanning six centuries

  • Walter Nessler: Post-war Optimist

    Walter Nessler: Post-war Optimist

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

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

    *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.