Czech Routes to Britain

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Ben Uri Research Unit

Czech Routes is the fourth in Ben Uri’s series of exhibitions designed to highlight the contribution of émigré artists to Britain since 1900. Featuring the work of 21 painters, printmakers and sculptors, many of whom fled to Britain as racial and political refugees from National Socialism, Czech Routes marks the 80th anniversary of Hitler’s invasion of Czechoslovakia on 15th March 1939.

Other exhibitions by Ben Uri Research Unit

Ben Uri Research Unit

Yalta 1945 by Komar & Melamid

Ben Uri Research Unit

Finchleystrasse - German artists in exile in Great Britain and Beyond, 1933–45

Ben Uri Research Unit

100 for 100: Ben Uri, Past, Present and Future

Ben Uri Research Unit

Self Portraits from the Ben Uri Collection

Ben Uri Research Unit

ART-EXIT 1939: A Very Different Europe