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Art and Migration
Art and Migration
Art Works by Refugee Artists from Nazi Germany in Britain
Monday 11 – Friday 15 July 2005
Photograph Room
Pictured: Hugo Dachinger, Untitled (Running Figure), 1941
What effect does the experience of migration from one’s homeland to an ‘alien’ country have on a visual artist’s work?
Art and Migration, which opens at The Barber Institute of Fine Arts for a five day period on the 11 July, provides a unique opportunity to see a private collection of works by artists who fled Nazi Germany following the outbreak of World War II. These paintings, drawings, lithographs and prints have never been displayed together before and provide a fascinating insight into the astonishing variety of images that were produced by exiled artists living in Britain during this highly politicised period in history.
Utilising a wide variety of media and artistic genre; the exhibition includes landscapes, portraiture and more abstract pieces. A number of the pieces directly, or indirectly, address artists’ experiences of migration and subsequent internment in British camps in the 1940s. Artists such as Martin Bloch (1883-1954), Hans Feibusch (1898-1998) and Ludwig Meidner (1884-1966) are represented alongside works by lesser known artists.
Art and Migration is at the Barber Institute of Fine Arts from Monday 11–Friday 15 July 2005, and a fully illustrated catalogue is available. The exhibition coincides with an International conference Exile and Patronage 11-13 July 2005.