Josef Herman 1911-2000
framed: 60.7 x 53.2 x 3.3 cm
Further images
Provenance
purchased with the kind assistance of the ACE/V&A Purchase Grant Fund and Art Fund 2014 via Conor Macklin of the Grosvenor GalleryExhibitions
1942 Exhibition of Paintings by Josef Herman, Aitken Dott & Son
2015 Out of Chaos – Ben Uri: 100 Years in London, Somerset House
2016 Unexpected: continuing narratives of identity and migration, Ben Uri Gallery
2016 100 for 100: Ben Uri Past, Present & Future, Christie's South Kensington
2017 Art Out of the Bloodlands: A Century of Polish Artists in Britain, Ben Uri Gallery
2017 Thirty-six Pounds and Ninety-five Pence: Artworks by Contemporary Migrant Artists, Ben Uri Gallery
2018 Exodus: masterworks from the Ben Uri Collection, Bushey Museum
2018 Acquisitions and Long-Term Loan Highlights Since 2001, Ben Uri Gallery
2018 Wild at Heart: Portrait and self-portrait in Poland after 1989, Zachęta – National Gallery of Art
2019 Brave New Visions: The Emigres Who Transformed the British Art World, Sothebys
2019 Art-exit: 1939 - A Very Different Europe, 12 Star Gallery
2019 Migrations: masterworks from the Ben Uri Collection, Gloucester Museum
2022 Refugees from National Socialism in Wales, Aberystwyth Arts Centre
2023 Art, Identity, Migration - Ben Uri at the London Art Fair, Business Design Centre
2023 Refugees from National Socialism in Wales: Learning from the Past for the Future, Senedd Cymru
2023 A Brush with Evil: Peter Howson's Holocaust Crowd Scene II, Ben Uri Gallery
2023 The Second World War on the Home Front (supporting A Brush with Evil II: Laura Knight at the Nuremberg Trial), Ben Uri Gallery
2023 Josef Herman: Artistiaid Ffoadur Cymru - Refugee Artists, Hay Castle
2024 The Decorative Fair, Evolution London
Literature
Rachel Dickson, ed., From Adler to Zuławski: A Century of Polish Artists in Britain (London: Ben Uri Research Unit, 2020), pp. 58-59, illus.;Monica Bom-Duchen, ed., Insiders/Outsiders: Refugees from Nazi Europe and their Contribution to British Visual Culture (London: Lund Humphries, 2019), illus., (front cover);
Phyllis Lassner, The art of lamentation: Josef Herman’s humanist expressionism (Shofar Journal, Vol. 37, Issue no. 3, 2019), pp. 171-202;
Rachel Dickson and Sarah MacDougall, eds., Out of Chaos: Ben Uri; 100 Years in London (London: Ben Uri Gallery, 2015) pp. 94-95;
Rachel Dickson and Sarah MacDougall, eds., Ben Uri: 100 Years in London - Art, Identity, Migration (London: Ben Uri Gallery, 2015), p. 2, illus., (detail);
Sarah MacDougall, ed., Refiguring the 50s: Joan Eardley, Sheila Fell, Eva Frankfurther, Josef Herman, L S Lowry (London: Ben Uri, 2014), pp. 107-108, illus.
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