Insiders/Outsiders Refugees from Nazi Europe and their contribution to British Visual Culture 29 May 2022 6pm 3 Thompsons Lane, Cambridge
Joel Herman: Refugees, c1941. Copyright Joseph Herman Estate With kind permission Ben Uri collection
A talk by Monica Bohm-Duchen Despite the traumatic nature of their dislocation and the obstacles they often encountered on arrival in the UK, those who fled here from Nazidominated Europe in the 1930s and 1940s made a deep, pervasive and long-lasting contribution to British culture. Focussing on the visual arts, this illustrated lecture will examine the nature of this contribution, embracing not only household names such as Ernst Gombrich, Oskar Kokoschka, Kurt Schwitters and John Heartfield, but also lesserknown figures such as Josef Herman, Milein Cosman and Marie-Louise von Motesiczky. Monica is the founding director of the Insiders/Outsiders Festival (www.insidersoutsidersfestival.org) and contributing editor of the companion volume (Insiders/Outsiders – Lund Humphries) Page 11
