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Finchleystrasse: German artists in exile in Great Britain and beyond 1933-45 is curated by Ben Uri Gallery and Museum in partnership with the German Embassy London. It brings together paintings, drawings and graphics by a number of primarily German-Jewish artists, who made forced journeys, mostly to Great Britain, but also further afield to Australia, China, Palestine and the United States, during the era of National Socialism. The title,
Finchleystrasse, as bus conductors used to call out at the Finchley Road stop, recognises the influx of German-speaking émigrés to North London during the …