Urban Exile

Burcu Dogramaci is a professor of 20th Century and Contemporary Art History at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich (LMU). In 2016 she was been awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant and lead the research project “Relocating Modernism: Global Metropolises, Modern Art and Exile” (METROMOD).Ekaterina Aygun graduated from Istanbul Bilgi University with a master’s degree in History. She currently pursues her doctoral research project (LMU Munich) that deals with Russian-speaking émigré artists in Istanbul at the beginning of the 20th century.Mareike Hetschold studied art history, literature and Italian in Munich and Venice. She is a doctoral researcher with the ERC project “Relocating Modernism: Global Metropolises, Modern Art and Exile” (METROMOD) at the LMU in Munich. Laura Karp Lugo holds a PhD from Panthéon-Sorbonne University (2014), that has been awarded the Prize of the Musée d’Orsay. She is currently a Researcher and Assistant Professor at University of Lorraine (Nancy) and a researcher at the Ludwig-Maximilians Universität (Munich) in the ERC project “Relocating Modernism: Global Metropolises, Modern Art and Exile” (METROMOD).Rachel Lee is an Assistant Professor at the Chair of History of Architecture and Urban Planning, TU Delft and an Associated Researcher on the ERC project Relocating Modernism: Global Metropolises, Modern Art and Exile” (METROMOD).Helene Roth is Research Assistant in Art History at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) in Munich and researcher in the ERC project “Relocating Modernism: Global Metropolises, Modern Art and Exile” (METROMOD).

• Encountering Urban Exile: Theories, Methods, Research Practices – 01An IntroductionBurcu Dogramaci, Ekaterina Aygün, MareikeHetschold, Laura Karp Lugo, Rachel Lee and Helene RothPART 1: SOURCING TRACES 21Expulsion from Exile: Tracking the Presence and Absence of 22German-speaking Dealers in Paris, 1910–1925Maddalena AlviTaming the Polyp: Address Books and their Impact on Wartime 32Exile in LondonJulia EichenbergClose Reading Istanbul: Through the Lens of Two Almanacs 45by Russian-speaking Émigrés in the 1920sEkaterina Aygün‘Mobile Exile’ and Urban Musical Theatre in the 1930s 60Nils GroschOral History in Exile Studies – Potentials and Limitations 72Felicitas SöhnerMovement – A Conversation with Artist Michaela Melián 84Burcu DogramaciPART 2: PRACTICING THE URBAN 95An Exile’s Guide: Ernst Schaeffer’s Pictorial Bombay and 96the Construction of Bombay’s TouristscapeMargit Franz and Rachel LeePhotographic Practices in Cities of Exile: Camera Views on 120Tel Aviv and New YorkAnna Sophia Messner and Helene RothThe Exilic Vision of a Once Fashionable Quarter: 140Danila Vassilieff in Interwar FitzroyRobert Pascoe and Chris McConvilleQueering Exile London: Dislocations, Hidden Histories and 146Gendered SpacesBurcu DogramaciPART 3: MAPPING/SPATIALIZING SITES 169Theatre After the End of Theatre: Abandoned Theatres in Chile 170Valentina Pino ReyesRedeveloping the Heritage of Migration: The Shanghai Jewish 182Refugees Museum and Urban TransformationXin TongMapping the Russian Diaspora in Shanghai 194Katya KnyazevaMapping Istanbul’s Pera District between Arrivals and Departures 206Merve Köksal and Seza Sinanlar UsluRussian Belgrade: In-between Alive and Dead 225Marina SorokinaPART 4: SITUATING EXPERIENCE 239Urban Exile: The Case of the Nazi Ghetto 240Alexis NoussBooked for Exile: Leo Steinberg’s Urban Passages and 250Textual HomelandsLouis KaplanBetween Europe and America: Metropolitan Exchanges in the 261Context of International AntifascismDiana WechslerUrban Exile: Bogotá in the First Half of the 20th Century 273Claudia Cendales Paredes(Re)routing and (Re)rooting in Urban Exile: Exploring Villa 287Ocampo in Buenos Aires and Jassim House in Bombay withActor-Network-TheoryMareike SchwarzPART 5: PLACE-MAKING/BELONGING 311From Hamburg to Cape Town: The Denizen Photography of 313Else and Helmuth HausmannJessica Williams StarkSuzhou River and Garden Bridge: Reading Images of 327Exile in ShanghaiMareike HetscholdThe Territorial Dimension of Spanish Republican 342Exile in the Cities of ArgentinaFederico Martín VitelliCalle de López or Spain in Mexico 352Valeria Sánchez MichelReinhabiting the City as an Artistic Open Space: Urban 361Imprints of Exile Artists in Buenos Aires and Marseille inthe 20th CenturyLaura Karp Lugo and Marine SchützNotes on the Contributors 377Index 391