Tag: refugee artists
One hill, two painters
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Peter Wakelin’s book Refuge and renewal: migration and British art, written to accompany his exhibition of the same name – its run in MOMA Machynlleth was sadly curtailed by coronavirus – is a rich source of information about artists who fled to Britain to escape the Nazis. A name he mentions in passing on three […]
A Czech refugee artist in Mumbles
![A Czech refugee artist in Mumbles A Czech refugee artist in Mumbles](http://i0.wp.com/gwallter.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Neuschul-2.jpg?resize=300%2C200&ssl=1)
In the big show of Swansea-themed art currently on in the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery are three paintings from the permanent collection I’d not seen before. They’re by a Czech artist called Ernst (later Ernest) Neuschul. What intrigued me was a note in the caption for one of them to say that he’d found refuge […]