‘emigration’

In summer 2022, the Centre Pompidou devoted a major exhibition to the art and culture of the Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) in Germany, with the aim of re-reading the history of cultural production in the Weimar Republic, under the keyword “sachlich”, whose difficult translation into other languages points to the special nature of the concept. In addition to painting and photography, …

… later efforts to re-graft artists to the culture of their country of origin. Outlining patterns of emigration related to the time, the medium, and the adjustment to the new country, I will demonstrate the complications of re-grafting in the example of Victor Vasarely.   Éva Forgács is a Professor Emerita of art history at the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design (MOME) in Budapest, Hungary, and an Adjunct Professor at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. She …

… analysing individual cases and oeuvres of forced or voluntary, and temporary or permanent artistic emigration, keynote speakers Éva Forgács, (Art Center College of Design, Pasadena; Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Budapest) and Angela Lampe (Musée national d’art moderne – Centre Pompidou, Paris), as well as participants from six countries will consider how these networks may have centred on traditional institutions of artist education, political movements, intellectual circles …

Lecture on Josef and Anni Albers by Nicholas Fox Weber, cultural historian, Bauhaus scholar and Executive Director of The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation Josef Albers, one of the most prominent representatives of geometric abstraction and one of the leading colour theorists, began his career as a teacher at the Bauhaus. After the school closed in 1933, he and his wife Anni Albers, a textile …

… analysing individual cases and oeuvres of forced or voluntary, and temporary or permanent artistic emigration, the conference will address how networks may have centred on traditional institutions of artist education, political movements, intellectual circles or actors generated by private (family, friends) social capital. The social relations of modern metropolises were shaped by industrialisation, urbanisation, changing conditions of work and leisure, developing infrastructure, housing …