Hugo Dachinger 1908-1995
framed: 82 x 64 x 1.8 cm
Further images
1908, Gmunden, Austria-Hungary (now Austria)–1995, London, England
Immigrated to the UK in 1938
Dachinger was interned soon after fleeing to England via Denmark in 1938. In this work, created in the camp, word and image are bound together to link a displaced life to a new country and its political events, as newspaper text from The Times cuts across the portrait of the Austrian Jewish émigré engineer, Wilhelm Hollitscher.
Ben Uri Collection
Purchased, 2016
Provenance
Purchased 2016Exhibitions
2016 Out of Chaos: Touring exhibition, Laing Art Gallery
2018
Out of Austria: Austrian emigre artists to the UK, Ben Uri Gallery and Museum
Acquisitions and Long-Term Loan Highlights Since 2001, Ben Uri Gallery
2019
Art-exit: 1939 - A Very Different Europe, 12 Star Gallery
Migrations: masterworks from the Ben Uri Collection, Gloucester Museum
2022 Refugees from National Socialism in Wales, Aberystwyth Arts Centre
2023 Refugees from National Socialism in Wales: Learning from the Past for the Future, Senedd Cymru
Literature
Ines Newman, with Charmian Brinson and Rachel Dickson, Internment in Britain in 1940: Life and Art Behind the Wire (Valentine Mitchell, 2019);Anthony Grenville, Encounters with Albion: Britain and the British in Texts by Jewish Refugees from Nazism, Germanic Literatures 17 (Cambridge: Legenda, 2018).
