Lectures & Events

Our first event of the season will take place on Saturday, 24 October at Bucerius Kunst Forum. We will meet in the foyer at 2.15 pm for a 2.30 pm start to the tour in English, which will be 90 minutes long. Folding chairs are available at reception.

We will be guided by art historian Anna Bochkova, who will give us the extensive context to the artworks in the exhibition Von Monet bis Picasso: Jüdische Kunstsammler:innen in Deutschland.

Dr Kate Heard, Senior Curator of Prints and Drawings in the Royal Collection at Windsor Castle, will give her lecture, ‘For I go seek the Thames’: Holbein and his English sitters. If you were able to see the spectacular Holbein exhibition she curated at what was then the Queen’s Gallery (now the King’s Gallery) in Buckingham Palace, you will know that we are in for a real treat. 

Please note that the guest fee for this event is €45 per person, and that members have priority registration.

Antonia Kenaey, Social Historian and digital content creator at Blenheim Palace, will see us into the Christmas season with her lecture Blenheim Palace: Christmas Past and Present.

*Please note that all Zoom lectures are provided by TAS Berlin. The Zoom links will be sent to you directly from TAS Berlin shortly before the lecture. Please be advised that you may not pass on the Zoom link to anyone. You may be asked to identify yourself as a member in the Zoom session if there is a lack of clarity concerning your name on the Zoom panel. You are, of course, welcome to invite friends and family to view the lecture with you on your own screen. Anyone who is interested who is not a member should contact TAS Berlin and pay their guest fee to receive the Zoom link to the lecture they wish to view.

Sian Walters, journalist and tv presenter, will give a lecture on The Life and Collection of the Davies Sisters. Gwendoline Davies (1882–1951) and Margaret Davies (1884–1963), two sisters from mid-Wales, amassed one of the great British art collections of the 20th century.

Together, they bequeathed 260 works to the National Museum of Wales in 1951 and 1963, completely transforming its art collection in character, quality and range.

*Please note that all Zoom lectures are provided by TAS Berlin. The Zoom links will be sent to you directly from TAS Berlin shortly before the lecture. Please be advised that you may not pass on the Zoom link to anyone. You may be asked to identify yourself as a member in the Zoom session if there is a lack of clarity concerning your name on the Zoom panel. You are, of course, welcome to invite friends and family to view the lecture with you on your own screen. Anyone who is interested who is not a member should contact TAS Berlin and pay their guest fee to receive the Zoom link to the lecture they wish to view.

David Winpenny, an Arts Society accredited lecturer who specialises in architectural history, will examine the ways in which water has been used as a feature in Going with the Flow: Garden Cascades, Fountains, Canals and Lakes.

*Please note that all Zoom lectures are provided by TAS Berlin. The Zoom links will be sent to you directly from TAS Berlin shortly before the lecture. Please be advised that you may not pass on the Zoom link to anyone. You may be asked to identify yourself as a member in the Zoom session if there is a lack of clarity concerning your name on the Zoom panel. You are, of course, welcome to invite friends and family to view the lecture with you on your own screen. Anyone who is interested who is not a member should contact TAS Berlin and pay their guest fee to receive the Zoom link to the lecture they wish to view.

Our in-person events for April and June will be announced as soon as they are confirmed. 

We will come together to celebrate 40 years of The Arts Society Hamburg e.V. before – sadly – saying goodbye forever.