London Exile

Burcu Dogramaci is Professor of Art History and Director of the Käte Hamburger Research Centre global dis:connect at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.

Burcu Dogramaci’s London Exile constitutes the definitive history of how the cultural workers who fled Nazi Germany—from artists, photographers, designers, and sculptors to publishers and gallerists—were shaped by their emigration. It also tells the story of how these immigrants left indelible marks on their city of refuge and how their work there forever changed London, remaking it into the celebrated modern cultural metropolis that it is today. - Elizabeth Otto, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York

• Prologue: London, Metropolis of Artistic Exile 9Arrival and Orientation: Address Books, Street Maps, and Undergrounds 23Neighbourhoods, Streets, and Houses: Exile History as Urban History 41Gendered London: Gender, Sexuality, and Exile 65Émigrés Build for Émigrés 83Transplanted Objects: Sigmund Freud’s Collection and Chair 103Sculpture, Modernity, and Exile: Jussuf Abbo in London 121From Bauhaus to the Thames: Textile Designs by Margaret Leischner 143In the Blitz: Helmut Gernheim’s Photographs of National Monuments 161Portrait of a City: Streets and Faces of Exile 179London Zoo: Animal, City, and Exile 203Storytelling in Pictures: Stefan Lorant and the Picture Post Photographers 249Reading Exile: Publishers and Books as Multipliers 281Immortal Portraits: Exile, London, and the Historiography of Early Photography 305Back to History: Ludwig Meidner and the British Caricature 325Pencil as Weapon: Richard Ziegler, Walter Trier, and Die Zeitung 337Exhibited Exile: Exhibitions by and with Émigrés 361Show It: Galleries as Places of Distribution of Modernity in Exile 381Allies inside Germany and English Art and the Mediterranean: Exhibitions in and outside London 413Beyond London: Rosa Schapire, Expressionism, and/in Leicester 441Epilogue: Self-descriptions of Exile – A Look Back 463Afterword and Acknowledgements 475Notes 479Bibliography 537Index of Persons, Institutions, and Periodicals 589