Tag: Design

Belonging and Not Belonging: Émigré Artists in Britain after 1933: Lecture by Monica Bohm-Duchen

An illustrated talk by Monica Bohm-Duchen, initiator and Creative Director of the Insiders/Outsiders Festival, will focus on the experiences of the émigré artists who found refuge in this country in the wake of Hitler’s accession to power in 1933
Pioneers of Modernism: William Morris and the Bauhaus

The William Morris Gallery’s first major exhibition exploring the relationship between William Morris and the Bauhaus.
Émigré designers in the V&A’s Archive of Art and Design

Some of the most important contributors to British design in the mid- and late-twentieth century were Jewish émigrés, many of whom who escaped Nazi Germany in the 1930s or survived the persecution of the Second World War to make their homes in Britain in the 1940s. The working archives, and some private papers, of 28…
Émigré designers in the V&A’s Archive of Art and Design

Some of the most important contributors to British design in the mid- and late-twentieth century were Jewish émigrés, many of whom who escaped Nazi Germany in the 1930s or survived the persecution of the Second World War to make their homes in Britain in the 1940s. The working archives, and some private papers, of 28…
Jacques & Jacqueline Groag

The dramatic and fascinating story of two former Lawn Road Flats residents, brought to life by their biographer, Ursula Prokop.
Isokon and the Bauhaus in Britain: Exhibition

During the mid-1930s and 1940s the Isokon flats and bar became a hub for creatives, including Bauhaus professors Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer and László Moholy-Nagy. The three produced furniture, architecture and graphic art for Jack Pritchard’s Isokon design company.
Isokon and the Bauhaus in Britain: Talk with authors Leyla Daybelge and Magnus Englund

The hugely influential Lawn Road Flats, or Isokon building, was commissioned by visionary couple Jack and Molly Pritchard and designed by architect Wells Coates. Isokon and the Bauhaus in Britain (Batsford) by Leyla Daybelge and Magnus Englund tells the extraordinary story of Isokon, and how its network of residents helped shape modern Britain.
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.
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.
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.
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

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

Discover the revolutionary Modernist homes and idealistic architecture built in Hampstead in the 1930s
Modernist Hampstead Walk

Discover the revolutionary Modernist homes and idealistic architecture built in Hampstead in the 1930s
Modernist Hampstead Walk

Discover the revolutionary Modernist homes and idealistic architecture built in Hampstead in the 1930s
Modernist Hampstead Walk

Discover the revolutionary Modernist homes and idealistic architecture built in Hampstead in the 1930s
Modernist Hampstead Walk

Discover the revolutionary Modernist homes and idealistic architecture built in Hampstead in the 1930s
Modernist Hampstead Walk

Discover the revolutionary Modernist homes and idealistic architecture built in Hampstead in the 1930s
Witnesses: émigré medallists in Britain – Gallery Talk

Gallery talk by curator Philip Atwood
Witnesses: émigré medallists in Britain

British medallic art spanning six centuries