Notes on Contributors
Rachel Dickson
is Senior Research Manager, Ben Uri Research Unit for the Study of the Contribution of Jewish and Immigrant artists to the Visual Arts in Britain since 1900. A Committee member of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies, her focus is on Jewish émigré artists arriving in Britain from the late 1800s and 1933–45.
Burcu Dogramaci
is Professor of 20th Century and Contemporary Art in the Department of Art History at the University of Munich. Her research focuses on exile and migration, photography, architecture, sculpture, and fashion. In 2016 she received an ERC Consolidator Grant for her project “Relocating Modernism: Global Metropolises, Modern Art and Exile”.
Deirdre Fernand
spent more than 20 years at The Sunday Times as a feature writer and commissioning editor before joining Newsweek Europe as associate editor. She studied at the University of Exeter (BA English) and the Courtauld Institute (MA History of Art), specialising in Germany.
Fran Lloyd
is Professor of Art History and Co-Director of Kingston University’s Visual and Material Culture Research Centre. She has published widely on German-speaking émigré artists and their artistic networks in Britain, including Kurt Schwitters, Ernst Eisenmayer and Kurt Weiler, and the Latvian-born, Estonian sculptor Dora Gordine.
David Low
is a photographic historian focusing on migration and exile. His research at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, examined photographers in exile in 1930s Britain (at MA level) and photography in Armenian lives (PhD). He is currently Visiting Scholar at the AGBU Nubar Library, Paris, working on his book, Picturing the Ottoman Armenian World.
Sarah MacDougall
is Head of Ben Uri Research Unit for the Study of the Contribution of Jewish and Immigrant artists to the Visual Arts in Britain since 1900. She is a Committee member of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies.
John March
is an independent researcher based in Yorkshire. His present research focus is on individual women exile photographers.
Anna Nyburg
is an Honorary Lecturer at Imperial College London. Her PhD subject was refugee art publishers in Britain and she has published two books on this topic as well as on refugee designers. A Committee member of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies, she co-produced a film about refugee designers in 2017.
Pauline Paucker
studied at the Birmingham School of Art with a special interest in the history of book design and illustration. She has written and lectured on German-Jewish graphic artists and on women artists in exile. Her current interest is in typography and the letter and in type and propaganda.
Ines Schlenker
is an independent art historian with a special interest in National Socialist, degenerate and émigré art. Her most recent work is Milein Cosman: Capturing Time (to be published in 2019).
Wilfried Weinke
is a historian who has published in the field of the German-Jewish history of Hamburg, on photographic history and on exile literature, most recently Ich werde vielleicht später einmal Einfluß zu gewinnen suchen … : der Schriftsteller und Journalist Heinz Liepman (1905–1966) – Eine biographische Rekonstruktion (2017) and „Wo man Bücher verbrennt...“ Verbrannte Bücher, verbannte und ermordete Autoren Hamburgs (2017).
Julia Winckler
is a photographer, art education consultant and Senior Lecturer at the University of Brighton (UK). Her interdisciplinary research focuses on archival traces, memory and migration narratives. She has exhibited widely, including at the Austrian Cultural Forum and the Brunei Gallery in London. Recent publications include an introduction to Wolf Suschitzky’s third monograph, Seven Decades of Photography (2014).