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

Teacher and Pupil: David Bomberg and Frank Auerbach

Ben Uri Research Unit

Jacob Kramer (1892-1962)

Ben Uri Research Unit

Selected works by Eva Frankfurther (1930-1959)

Ben Uri Research Unit

German Refugee Artists to Britain since 1900

Ben Uri Research Unit

Thirty-six Pounds and Ninety-five Pence - Artworks by Contemporary Migrant Artists