Ben Uri: Audio Adventures

Brief Lives #5 - Jacob Epstein Sculptor Jacob Epstein was born into a Polish-Jewish family in New York City, USA in 1880 and raised in Manhattan’s multicultural Lower East Side. He moved to London in 1905 and received his first British commission for the facade of the British Medical Association Building on the Strand in 1907 - the first of many highly controversial public commissions - although h...

Brief Lives #4 - Ludwig Meidner Ludwig Meidner was born into a Jewish family in Bernstadt, Germany (now Bierutów, Poland) in 1884 and studied in Berlin and Paris, initially working as a fashion illustrator. In 1912 he began a series of ‘Apocalyptic’ landscapes, which anticipated the carnage of the First World War, while his subsequent work, influenced by Rembrandt, included many religious painting...

Brief Lives #2 - Martin Bloch Martin Bloch was born into an assimilated Jewish family in Neisse, Germany (now Nysa, Poland) in 1883 and studied aesthetics and drawing in Berlin under Heinrich Wölfflin and Lovis Corinth. Following the rise of Nazism, Bloch fled to England, establishing his second art school, the School of Contemporary Painting, in London. Following internment as an 'enemy alien...

Brief Luves #1 - Lazar Berson Lazar Berson was born into a Jewish family in the village of Skopichky, Russia (now Skapiškis, Lithuania) in 1882; he studied painting in St Petersburg, where, influenced by traditional Russian folk art, he sought to develop a specifically 'Jewish' art, before moving to Paris. Following the outbreak of the First World War, Berson moved to London, founding &#39...

We are excited to introduce this new Audio Adventure, which is designed to share with you the lives of many great artists from our collection and make your morning or afternoon break special, with 5 minutes of engaging history from our curators.  Brief Lives #2 - Jacob Kramer Jacob Kramer was born into a Jewish family in Klintsy, Russian Empire (now Klincy, Ukraine) in 1892, and immigrated with th...