ART-EXIT 1939: A Very Different Europe

This exhibition shines a spotlight on a very different Europe in 1939 and the forced journeys made by many of central Europe’s most distinguished, talented and pioneering artists, who escaped tyranny in search of artistic and personal freedoms.

Elsa Fraenkel, Jacob Bornfriend, Hugo Dachinger, Ernst Eisenmayer, Lucian Freud, Henryk Gotlib, George Grosz, Josef Herman, Dora Holzhandler, Oskar Kokoschka, Heinz Koppel, Ludwig Meidner, Kurt Schwitters, Arthur Segal, Chaim Soutine, Elisabeth Tomalin, Harry Weinberger.

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Yiddish, the language, the people and heritage

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Rothenstein's Relevance

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Refiguring the 50s

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A Farewell to Art: Chagall, Shakespeare and Prospero; Curated by Professor Hanna Scolnicov

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Art and the Holocaust