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.

Other exhibitions by Ben Uri Research Unit

Ben Uri Research Unit

Liberators: Extraordinary Women Artists from the Ben Uri Collection

Ben Uri Research Unit

Jankel Adler : A Degenerate Artist in Britain 1940-1949

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Emmanuel Levy: A Manchester artist

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Frank Auerbach from the Ben Uri Collection

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Czech Routes to Britain