Refugees by Josef Herman, c.1941, Ben Uri Gallery, London
This lecture will celebrate the achievements against the odds of a diverse range of artists who came to this country as refugees. This will include such varied artists as the miniaturist Isaac Oliver in the sixteenth century, James Tissot in the nineteenth century, and David Bomberg and Lucien Freud in the twentieth, and many more as we move into the later twentieth century and beyond.
Lecturer Monica Bohm Duchen has a longstanding interest in art, war and displacement and the plight of refugees from conflict zones around the world. As a small gesture she will donate a portion of her lecture fee to a charity supporting refugees from Ukraine.
