Art Beyond Exile

Many artists were forced to flee Nazi-occupied Europe during the Second World War, due to their work often being regarded as degenerate. Here three such artists who found refuge in England embraced their new life through the celebration of Britain and the British people in their drawings, paintings and collages. Josef Herman, a Jewish artist who escaped Poland, focused his attention on the working classes of Wales and Suffolk; Peter Potworowski, a close friend of Kenneth Armitage abstracted the everyday in his still lifes and landscape work and Jacob Bornfriend referred back to the folk-art of Czechoslovakia, which he fled in 1939.