Led by Researcher in Residence Ellie Hill, this event will explore issues of displacement, acculturation and identity trauma in the works of Austrian born artist, Hans Schwarz: a Kindertransport refugee exiled to Bournville, Birmingham in 1939.
Schwarz’s career as an artist can be seen to evidence a negotiation between self-identity and subject under acculturative stress. Shedding light on key examples in Research and Cultural Collections’ archive, the talk considers the construction of émigré identity in Hans Schwarz’s portraits of people and landscape.
Presented by Ellie Hill in partnership with Research & Cultural Collections.
