2024 KunstPlatzl Veranstaltungen |
Mo. 24. Juni 2024 Sonja & Martin Frank (KunstPlatzl, Vienna) are delighted to show their film partly with English subtitles. The Ambassadors for Austria and GB are invited to take part in both events. Sonja Frank's grandparents Fanni and Ludwig Grossmann were members and officials of the former Anti-fascist youth group Young Austria in Great Britain and maintained contact with former members in the post-war years. The film showcases works of art by 12 Austrian refugees who were active in the Free Austria Movement (FAM). The film centres around Franz Pixner (1912-1998), a co-founder of the FAM. Having fought with the Republican Brigades during the Spanish Civil War, he arrived in London in 1939. Primarily a sculptor he also worked as a graphic artist for the Austrian Centre and the exile theatre company Das Laterndl. He returned to Vienna in 1946. Pixner
and his artist friends Georg Eisler, Klara Hautmann-Kiss, Franzi Heidenreich,
Rudi Kauders and Edith Propst returned to Austria after WWII
and remained politically active anti-fascists. In exile and after the war they created, among other things: architecture and pottery works, watercolours, oil paintings, ink drawings, sculptures, photographs, graphics, cartoons and poems. An A3 poster book and A4 catalogues of Sonja Frank's exhibition about 12 FAM artists will be displaced at the Austrian Cultural Forum Library. 7pm
Online Ausstellung Das Laterndl im Austrian Centre Following
on, at 7pm, the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies
(London) is pleased to announce the launch of an online exhibition
about the Laterndl Theatre at the Austrian Centre.
Founded in 1939 in London, The Austrian Centre provided a vital social,
cultural and political hub during the dark war years for the many thousands
of mainly Jewish Austrian Jews fleeing persecution. Das Laterndl (The
Lantern) had clear aims: it wanted to give the wider refugee community
hope and belief in the future, contribute to the fight for a free and
independent Austria, and enable them to reach out and share stories with
the wider British society. Just as important perhaps, was an unspoken
hope that theatre would bring a sense of agency and purpose to life in
exile. There will be a break for drinks and snacks between the two events.
Seat booking, ACF London: 28 Rutland Gate, London SW7 1PQ. www.acflondon.org Es kann kann keine Garantie für Richtigkeit, Vollständigkeit und Aktualität der hier veröffentlichten Angaben von uns übernommen werden. 21. Mai 2024 © Verein KunstPlatzl, Wien |