Refuge and Renewal: Migration and British Art
This major touring exhibition is a timely exploration of the impact of artist refugees on art in Britain, taking a perspective across the last 150 years.
The migration of creative individuals and groups has always been a source of innovation and cultural cross-fertilisation.. This exhibition looks back to the crucial influence of 茅migr茅s who came from eastern and central Europe during the 1930s and 1940s. It explores how they were perceived by their peers in Britain and the extent to which their influence excited or inspired new art including artists such as Joan Eardley, Josef Herman, Ben Nicholson and Kurt Schwitters. It also explores the temporary exile of refugees from the Franco-Prussian War, the First World War and forward to the present, when the reception of refugees from war-torn Iran, Iraq and Afhanistan and their contributions to British life remain contentious.
Many of the artists present extraordinary and deeply moving stories of escape from dispossession, persecution, torture, intellectual oppression and war. The welcome for foreign artists has not always been positive and has included critical hostility, financial difficulties, personal tragedy and even internment, yet they have often exerted a remarkably direct influence on British contemporaries.
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This major touring exhibition is a timely exploration of the impact of artist refugees on art in Britain, taking a perspective across the last 150 years.
The migration of creative individuals and groups has always been a source of innovation and cultural cross-fertilisation.. This exhibition looks back to the crucial influence of 茅migr茅s who came from eastern and central Europe during the 1930s and 1940s. It explores how they were perceived by their peers in Britain and the extent to which their influence excited or inspired new art including artists such as Joan Eardley, Josef Herman, Ben Nicholson and Kurt Schwitters. It also explores the temporary exile of refugees from the Franco-Prussian War, the First World War and forward to the present, when the reception of refugees from war-torn Iran, Iraq and Afhanistan and their contributions to British life remain contentious.
Many of the artists present extraordinary and deeply moving stories of escape from dispossession, persecution, torture, intellectual oppression and war. The welcome for foreign artists has not always been positive and has included critical hostility, financial difficulties, personal tragedy and even internment, yet they have often exerted a remarkably direct influence on British contemporaries.
Artists on show
- Adèle Reifenberg
- Aimé Jules Dalou
- Barbara Hepworth
- Ben Nicholson
- Bill Brandt
- Camille Pissarro
- Cheng-Wu Fei
- Chien-Ying Chang
- Claude Monet
- Constant Permeke
- Dobrivoje Beljkasic
- Edith Tudor Hart
- Else Meidner
- Ernest Zobole
- Ernst Blensdorf
- Esther Grainger
- Frank William Brangwyn
- Fred Kormis
- Fred Uhlman
- Frederick Könekamp
- George Minne
- György Gordon
- Hanaa Malallah
- Hans Feibusch
- Heinz Koppel
- Hilde Goldschmidt
- Humberto Gatica
- Jankel Adler
- Joan Kathleen Hardy Eardley
- John Heartfield
- Josef Herman
- Josef Koudelka
- Kurt Schwitters
- Lena Pillico
- Leonid Pasternak
- Lotte Reiniger
- Lucien Pissarro
- Ludwig Meidner
- Marianne von Werther
- Martin Bloch
- Mona Hatoum
- Peter Lanyon
- Peter Péri
- Peter Potworowski
- Robert Colquhoun
- Samira Kitman
- Siegried Charoux
- Stanis艂aw Frenkiel
- Valerius de Saedeleer
- Walid Siti
- Walter Richard Sickert
- Will Roberts
- Willi Soukop
- William Goscombe John
- Wolfgang Suschitzky
- Ying Chang-Chien
- Zory Shahrokhi
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