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SUMMARY:Exhibition Talk - The woodcut print in Germany after WWI: Remorse\, redemption\, reparation
DESCRIPTION:Christian Rohlfs\, The Prisoner\, woodcut print\, 1918 \nThis event is organised as part of the Fred Kormis: Sculpting the Twentieth Century event series. Visit the exhibition page to find out more. \nAs became all too familiar after the Holocaust\, the experience of suffering and inhumanity often proves to be unrepresentable. However\, in the aftermath of the First World War in Germany\, the opposite was the case. Here\, a flood of works on paper gave Expressionist artists and their bruised public an outlet for sentiments that ranged from an insistence on bearing witness to the horrors of trench warfare\, to grief and despair; and to a redemptive hope on the other side. \nBased on the extraordinary evidence of woodcut prints made by Fred Kormis as a prisoner of war in Siberia\, this lecture explores the context of printmaking around 1918. Highlighting the cathartic process of woodcut printing for fellow sculptors and graphic artists Ernst Barlach and Käthe Kollwitz\, it considers the qualities of this spare graphic medium that make it suited to the direct expression of existential extremes. \nAbout the Speaker:\nDr Niccola Shearman is a historian of twentieth-century European art\, with a focus on Germany and Austria to 1945. She has taught a variety of undergraduate courses at The Courtauld Institute and at the University of Manchester and is a regular contributor to Courtauld Short Courses and to the V&A Academy. \nNiccola’s PhD (2018) concerned the intense wave of woodcut printmaking in the aftermath of the First World War in Germany. She has published articles on this subject and on related themes of art and empathy. Further research interests lie in the art of modernist Vienna\, and in the careers of Viennese exiles to the UK under the rise of Nazism.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/exhibition-talk-the-woodcut-print-in-germany-after-wwi-remorse-redemption-reparation/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Fred Kormis
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SUMMARY:Exhibition Event - Curators’ talk: Dr Barbara Warnock and Dr Helen Lewandowski
DESCRIPTION:Fred Kormis in his London studio\, Wiener Holocaust Library Collections \nThis event is organised as part of the Fred Kormis: Sculpting the Twentieth Century event series. Visit the exhibition page to find out more. \nIn this talk\, Barbara Warnock and Helen Lewandowski will explore the genesis and development of the Fred Kormis: Sculpting the Twentieth Century exhibition\, from the deposit of the Fred Kormis Collection at the Wiener Library shortly after Kormis’ death in 1986\, to its rediscovery by Library staff in recent years\, and the process of the curation of the exhibition. They will discuss the collection and the themes explored in the exhibition. \nThis event includes an opportunity for a private view of the exhibition. \nAbout the speakers:  \nDr Barbara Warnock is the Senior Curator and Head of Education at The Wiener Holocaust Library\, where she has curated the exhibitions Jewish Resistance to the Holocaust\, Berlin-London; The Lost Photographs of Gerty Simon; Fighting Antisemitism from Dreyfus to Today\, and Forgotten Victims: The Nazi Genocide of the Roma and Sinti\, amongst others. She is the author (with John March) of Berlin-London: The Lost Photographs of Gerty Simon (2019)\, a Spectator Book of the Year\, and the editor of Anti-Antisemitism: Countering Anti-Jewish Racism in Western Europe\, 1890-2022 (2022). She has written a number of articles on refugee history\, the Nazi persecution of Roma and the history of The Wiener Holocaust Library. She obtained her Doctorate in Austrian history from Birkbeck College\, University of London\, in 2016. She was for many years a history teacher and examiner. \nDr Helen Lewandowski is an art historian and curator based in London. From 2020 to 2023\, she was Assistant Curator and Project Officer for the Refugee Family Papers at The Wiener Holocaust Library\, where she developed an exhibition on the life and works of Fred Kormis. Her doctoral research at The Courtauld Institute of Art examined aesthetic changes in modern and contemporary photography. She has curated exhibitions\, lectured\, and published on numerous subjects\, spanning photography\, printmaking\, and sculpture. Dr Lewandowski is currently Assistant Curator at the Royal Collection Trust. Previously\, she held curatorial positions at Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art\, Massachusetts College of Art and Design\, and the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/exhibition-event-curators-talk-dr-barbara-warnock-and-dr-helen-lewandowski/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Fred Kormis
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SUMMARY:Exhibition Talk - A secret garden? Fred Kormis and the Memorial to Prisoners of War and Victims of Concentration Camps 1914-1945
DESCRIPTION:Fred Kormis’ memorial to Prisoners of War and Victims of Concentration Camps 1914 – 1945\, Gladstone Park\, London. Photograph: Adam Soller \nThis event is organised as part of the Fred Kormis: Sculpting the Twentieth Century event series. Visit the exhibition page to find out more. \nHolocaust memory has become seemingly ubiquitous. New memorials or museums continue to be built\, the Holocaust is on the national education curricula in many countries far away from the sites of atrocity\, and tens of thousands of visitors flock to sites of former concentration or extermination camps or engage online with new forms of digital interpretation and commemoration. \nAt the same time a reappraisal of the history of Holocaust memorialisation by David Cesarani and others suggests that while there has certainly been significant growth in the material manifestations of Holocaust memory since the 1980s\, a focus on this has tended to overlook the memory work that went on during the Holocaust itself and in the decades immediately afterwards. One such marginalised memorial is the ‘prisoners of war and victims of concentration camps 1914-1945’ in Gladstone Park\, located in the suburb of Dollis Hill\, northwest London. \nConceived by renowned Jewish émigré sculptor Fred Kormis in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War and the Holocaust\, the memorial comprises five figures which take the viewer on a symbolic journey through the mental state of a prisoner of war or concentration camp victim. \nUnveiled in 1969\, a decade before the contentious campaign for what would eventually become the Hyde Park Holocaust memorial\, Kormis’s life and work illustrates how Holocaust memory has a history and a geography\, a geography understood as imaginative and well as material. \nThis talk will argue that reconstructing the biography of the Dollis Hill memorial as a site of creative and disruptive practice helps us understand the long\, complex\, and ongoing histories of Holocaust memorialisation in the UK\, including the soon to be completed Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre near the Houses of Parliament. \nAbout the Speaker\nDr Steven Cooke’s work focuses on cultural heritage and difficult histories. Over a thirty-year career in academia and professional practice\, he has authored over 40 scholarly publications\, including three highly commended books on the memory of war and genocide. After a PhD on Britain’s memorial landscapes of the Holocaust\, Steve spent five years in higher education in the UK\, first as a Research Fellow at the University of Stirling then as a Lecturer in Historical and Cultural Geography at the University of Hull. \nIn 2002\, he moved to Australia and worked in high level management positions in some of Victoria’s most significant places\, including the Melbourne Maritime Museum – home of Polly Woodside and the Shrine of Remembrance. In 2011 he returned to academia at Deakin University where he was an Associate Professor of Cultural Heritage and Museum Studies and served as course director for the Cultural Heritage and Museum Studies Programs. He was appointed as Expert to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance Memorials and Museum Working Group by the Australian Government’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in 201. In 2024 Steve was appointed as CEO of the newly redeveloped Melbourne Holocaust Museum. He is an Associate Fellow of the Institute of Languages\, Cultures and Societies at the University of London.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/exhibition-talk-a-secret-garden-fred-kormis-and-the-memorial-to-prisoners-of-war-and-victims-of-concentration-camps-1914-1945/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Fred Kormis
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