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  • London Art Fair 2023, Museum Partner

    London Art Fair 2023

    Museum Partner

    Ben Uri is honoured and delighted to have been invited to be the 2023 museum partner at the 2023 London Art Fair. This prestigious event is being held at the business design centre in Islington between 18 and 22nd of January 2023.

     

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  • Samuel Hirszenberg: A Polish Jewish Artist in Turmoil, Thursday, 26 January 2023, 6.30 pm GMT

    Samuel Hirszenberg: A Polish Jewish Artist in Turmoil

    Thursday, 26 January 2023, 6.30 pm GMT

    Presented by Emeritus Professor Richard Cohen of the Hebrew University, Jerusalem and Associate Professor Mirjam Rajner of Bar-Ilan University, Tel Aviv and authors of the newly published survey on Hirszenberg of the same title.

     

    This book reveals the innermost turmoil of Polish born artist, Samuel Hirszenberg’s struggle to juggle not only the contradiction of traditionalism and modernism and the representation of his fellow Jews in a changing world but also often intense financial and family challenges. It traces his choices particularly between Paris and Jerusalem where in 1907 he arrived with a hope to create modern Jewish art using contemporary language and practice.  

    Ben Uri is proud to have one of  Hirszenberg’s great masterpieces ’Sabbath Rest’ in our collection.

     

    Book here

  • Joy, 11 January - 17 February 2023

    Frank Auerbach, Mornington Crescent, Summer Morning II, 2004

    © Frank Auerbach, courtesy Geoffrey Parton

     

    Joy

    11 January - 17 February 2023

    Ben Uri is delighted to be one of the National Gallery’s nine regional collection partners for the virtual exhibition Fruits of the Spirit pairing Ben Uri’s Mornington Crescent, Summer Morning II by Frank Auerbach with the National Gallery’s Sunflowers by Vincent van Gogh to explore the ‘fruit’ of Joy.

     

    The current exhibition explores the concept of Joy through a selection of artworks from the Ben Uri Collection asking whether Joy is to be found in home (Frank Auerbach), in family (Dora Holzhandler, Bernard Meninsky), in love (Yaki Assayag, Chana Kowalska), in the shimmering heat of a summer’s day (Auerbach, Arthur Segal), in a vibrant landscape (Auerbach, Philip Sutton), in a bold still-life (Sutton, Tomalin), in celebration (Dancing Figures) or even the act of dance itself (Feibusch, Levy, Bakst). Is it achieved through spirituality (Holzhandler) or a joyous religious festival (Levy)?

     

    One room of the exhibition is dedicated to works by refugee artists from New Art Studios, Ben Uri's community partner for the exhibition and the National Gallery project.

     

    More information to follow soon. 

     
  • ENJOY THIS WEEK’S SPECIALLY CURATED FEATURES

    Don’t miss our selection of new features every week from our Research Unit, Exhibitions, Collections, Essays, Videos and Event programmes amongst much else. Subscribe here.

     
  • Monday

     
  • Archibald Ziegler, Bust of Bernard Kops, c. 1994
    Artworks

    Archibald Ziegler

    Bust of Bernard Kops, c. 1994

    This wonderful portrait bust of the distinguished playwright Bernard Kops was first exhibited in the Ben Uri exhibition in 1957.

  • Susanna Jacobs, Portrait of Catherine Eastman, 1993
    Artworks

    Susanna Jacobs

    Portrait of Catherine Eastman, 1993

    A Slade School of Art alumni Susanna Jacobs is an award winning artist and draughtswoman.

  • Tuesday

     
  • Art and Health activity of the week, Collage

    Art and Health activity of the week

    Collage

    Spending time with a loved one who lives on their own or in a care setting is hugely important as loneliness is the biggest single stimulant of dementia. Spending time actually doing something together is a huge bonus as it is the doing something together that keeps the brain fertile and aware - something like art?!

     

    Explore the activities here

  • Hans Feibusch: Sculptures and Gouaches, Archive exhibition of the week

    Hans Feibusch: Sculptures and Gouaches

    Archive exhibition of the week

    Ben Uri had a long and fruitful relationship with the German emigre artist Hans Feibusch. He escaped Nazi tyranny in 1933 joining his British born fiance in London.

    He exhibited first at Ben Uri in 1934. His work was designated ‘Degenerate’ by the Nazis in 1937 and included in the infamous exhibition in Munich. He lived until his 100th year and his life is as interesting as his art.

     

    Explore the exhibition here

  • Wednesday

     
  • Painting with an Accent: German-Jewish Émigré Stories, in cooperation with the German Embassy London
    Exhibitions

    Painting with an Accent: German-Jewish Émigré Stories

    in cooperation with the German Embassy London

    Ben Uri is very proud to have been asked by the German Embassy to curate a permanent artistic memorial to the 85th anniversary of Kristallnacht. This exhibition is greatly revealing as it introduces second generation artists and their interpretation and allows us all to understand the different dynamics expressed.

     
  • Dorrit Dekk, Woman of the Week

    Michael Fuhrmann, Photograph of Dorrit Dekk © Michael Fuhrmann

    Dorrit Dekk

    Woman of the Week

    Dekk (née Dorothea Karoline Fuhrmann) was born into a Jewish family in Brno, Moravia Austria-Hungary (subsequently Czechoslovakia, now Czech Republic) in 1917 and studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Vienna (1936–38). Following the Nazi annexation of Austria in 1938, she fled to London studying at the relocated Reimann School, specialising in graphic design. After the war she adopted the professional name 'Dekk' for design and advertising work for many notable clients, also working as 'Dorrit Dekk' as a painter and printmaker from 1982 onwards.

     

    Find out more about her here

  • Thursday

     
  • Clara Klinghoffer, Sleeping Girl, 1919
    Artworks

    Clara Klinghoffer

    Sleeping Girl, 1919

    To capture the moment at the age of 19 as Klinghoffer does here is a remarkable achievement. Her talent was already well recognised as her teacher Bernard Meninsky famously declared "Good Heavens! That child draws like da Vinci"

  • Theo Balden, Artist of the Week
    Passport picture from the passport of Theo Balden, 1974 © Akademie der Künste Berlin, Balden 3

    Theo Balden

    Artist of the Week

    Theo Balden was born Otto Koehler in 1904 in Brazil and trained as a technical draughtsman in Berlin before studying at the Weimar Bauhaus from 1923–24, also working as a freelance artist. From 1928 he was an active member of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) and in 1929 joined the Association of Revolutionary Visual Artists of Germany; following the rise of Nazism and his arrest and detention in 1934, he escaped to Prague on a false passport under the name of Theo Balden. After the German invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1939, he fled to England and following internment in Canada; return to England, where he had some success as a sculptor before relocating to the German Democratic Republic in 1947.

     

    Discover more here

  • Friday

     
  • Introduction to Getto Theatre by David Bomberg, Podcast of the week

    Introduction to Getto Theatre by David Bomberg

    Podcast of the week

     

     

    Listen here 

  • Ottilie Tolansky, Girl in a Red Shirt, c. 1950
    Artworks

    Ottilie Tolansky

    Girl in a Red Shirt, c. 1950

    A brave, determined, greatly talented woman artist. She was the daughter of religiously observant Jewish parents where artistry was not the first preferred choice of career and certainly not for a woman. Undeterred she carved a successful career both pre and post Nazism.

  • Saturday

     
  • Video entries

    JAKUB KRUPA'S TALK ON POLISH MIGRANTS IN BRITAIN

    Exhibition Focus 20 July 2017
    UK Correspondent Jakub Krupa delivers a fascinating talk about Polish migrants living in Britain.
  • 3D Exhibition of the week

     

  • Sunday

     
  • Albert Daniel Rutherston, Landscape at Grasse, 1910
    Artworks

    Albert Daniel Rutherston

    Landscape at Grasse, 1910

    Albert Rutherston was born Albert Rothenstein in 1881 and anglicised his name in 1916 as a declaration of his patriotism. He was the younger brother of William Rothenstein (later knighted) and studied at the Slade between 1898-2002. There he became great friends with Augustus John and William Orpen and the three became known as ‘the three musketeers’.

  • Video entries

    BEN URI'S POSITION ON IMMIGRATION AND IMMIGRANT ARTISTS TO BRITAIN

    Ben Uri Today: Talks, Interviews and Films on Ben Uri's social and cultural significance 28 November 2017
    Chairman and Chief Executive of Ben Uri, David Glasser, explains Ben Uri's endorsement and exhibitions of immigrant and refugee artists to modern Britain.

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