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VEDECKÝ ČASOPIS O DEJINÁCH SLOVENSKA A STREDNEJ EURÓPY
VEDECKÝ ČASOPIS O DEJINÁCH SLOVENSKA A STREDNEJ EURÓPY

VYDÁVA HISTORICKÝ ÚSTAV SLOVENSKEJ AKADÉMIE VIED, V. V. I.

ISSN 0018-2575 (print)

ISSN 2585-9099 (online)

EV 3084/09

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MORAVČÍKOVÁ, Henrieta
PAPP, Peter

Slovenská architektonická emigrácia vo Veľkej Británii v roku 1939

Historický časopis, 2024, 72, 4, pp. 693-719, Bratislava.

Abstract: At the turn of the 1930s and 1940s, several hundred architects emigrated from Central Europe to Great Britain. Among them were over 30 architects from what was then Czechoslovakia. Arriving in Britain was not easy for any of them. Not only did they have to make a dramatic escape from their homeland, but when Britain entered the war, many found themselves in the position of being citizens of an enemy state. Despite this, several managed to pursue successful professional careers in Britain. The phenomenon of refugees from Nazi Europe is not new in historiography. It has also received attention from several researchers in the field of art and architectural history. The fate and work of the most prominent of them have been the subject of a number of studies. In the case of emigrants from Czechoslovakia, the architect Eugen Rosenberg is a particularly notable example. The work of other architects, however, has remained more or less unexplored. Equally unexplored were the circumstances of their emigration and their strategies for surviving and utilizing their skills in their new country. The fate of those who planned such a journey but did not ultimately complete it has been entirely unknown to date. This study presents the results of research concerning those architects who were working in Slovakia at the time of their planned emigration to Great Britain. It explains the historical circumstances of this wave of emigration. It focuses on the lives and professional careers of the architects Adolf Drexler, Josef Konrad, Oskar Singer and Emerich Spitzer, but also covers the unsuccessful attempts to emigrate by Endre Steiner, Friedrich Weinwurm and Louis Becher. It also attempts to answer the question of what were the key circumstances around the decision to emigrate, and which factors most influenced the fate and professional careers of the architects in emigration. Thus, it tries to bring the different life trajectories of this selected group of creators into focus. With access to previously unknown RIBA archives and extensive research carried out in other archives in Great Britain, it brings a range of entirely new insights into this wave of architectural emigration.

Keywords: Emigration, architects. Slovakia. Great Britain. Royal Institute of British Architects. Refugee committee. World War II. Work permit. Profession.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.31577/histcaso.2024.72.4.4

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