Urban Exile

Burcu Dogramaci is a professor of 20th Century and Contemporary Art History at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich (LMU). In 2016 she was been awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant and lead the research project “Relocating Modernism: Global Metropolises, Modern Art and Exile” (METROMOD). Ekaterina Aygun graduated from Istanbul Bilgi University with a master’s degree in History. She currently pursues her doctoral research project (LMU Munich) that deals with Russian-speaking émigré artists in Istanbul at the beginning of the 20th century. Mareike Hetschold studied art history, literature and Italian in Munich and Venice. She is a doctoral researcher with the ERC project “Relocating Modernism: Global Metropolises, Modern Art and Exile” (METROMOD) at the LMU in Munich.  Laura Karp Lugo holds a PhD from Panthéon-Sorbonne University (2014), that has been awarded the Prize of the Musée d’Orsay. She is currently a Researcher and Assistant Professor at University of Lorraine (Nancy) and a researcher at the Ludwig-Maximilians Universität (Munich) in the ERC project “Relocating Modernism: Global Metropolises, Modern Art and Exile” (METROMOD). Rachel Lee is an Assistant Professor at the Chair of History of Architecture and Urban Planning, TU Delft and an Associated Researcher on the ERC project Relocating Modernism: Global Metropolises, Modern Art and Exile” (METROMOD). Helene Roth is Research Assistant in Art History at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) in Munich and researcher in the ERC project “Relocating Modernism: Global Metropolises, Modern Art and Exile” (METROMOD).

Encountering Urban Exile: Theories, Methods, Research Practices – 01



An Introduction



Burcu Dogramaci, Ekaterina Aygün, Mareike



Hetschold, Laura Karp Lugo, Rachel Lee and Helene Roth



PART 1: SOURCING TRACES 21





Expulsion from Exile: Tracking the Presence and Absence of 22


German-speaking Dealers in Paris, 1910–1925



Maddalena Alvi





Taming the Polyp: Address Books and their Impact on Wartime 32


Exile in London



Julia Eichenberg





Close Reading Istanbul: Through the Lens of Two Almanacs 45


by Russian-speaking Émigrés in the 1920s



Ekaterina Aygün





‘Mobile Exile’ and Urban Musical Theatre in the 1930s 60


Nils Grosch





Oral History in Exile Studies – Potentials and Limitations 72


Felicitas Söhner





Movement – A Conversation with Artist Michaela Melián 84


Burcu Dogramaci



PART 2: PRACTICING THE URBAN 95





An Exile’s Guide: Ernst Schaeffer’s Pictorial Bombay and 96


the Construction of Bombay’s Touristscape



Margit Franz and Rachel Lee





Photographic Practices in Cities of Exile: Camera Views on 120


Tel Aviv and New York



Anna Sophia Messner and Helene Roth





The Exilic Vision of a Once Fashionable Quarter: 140


Danila Vassilieff in Interwar Fitzroy



Robert Pascoe and Chris McConville





Queering Exile London: Dislocations, Hidden Histories and 146


Gendered Spaces



Burcu Dogramaci



PART 3: MAPPING/SPATIALIZING SITES 169





Theatre After the End of Theatre: Abandoned Theatres in Chile 170


Valentina Pino Reyes





Redeveloping the Heritage of Migration: The Shanghai Jewish 182


Refugees Museum and Urban Transformation



Xin Tong





Mapping the Russian Diaspora in Shanghai 194


Katya Knyazeva





Mapping Istanbul’s Pera District between Arrivals and Departures 206


Merve Köksal and Seza Sinanlar Uslu





Russian Belgrade: In-between Alive and Dead 225


Marina Sorokina



PART 4: SITUATING EXPERIENCE 239





Urban Exile: The Case of the Nazi Ghetto 240


Alexis Nouss





Booked for Exile: Leo Steinberg’s Urban Passages and 250


Textual Homelands



Louis Kaplan





Between Europe and America: Metropolitan Exchanges in the 261


Context of International Antifascism



Diana Wechsler





Urban Exile: Bogotá in the First Half of the 20th Century 273


Claudia Cendales Paredes





(Re)routing and (Re)rooting in Urban Exile: Exploring Villa 287


Ocampo in Buenos Aires and Jassim House in Bombay with



Actor-Network-Theory



Mareike Schwarz



PART 5: PLACE-MAKING/BELONGING 311





From Hamburg to Cape Town: The Denizen Photography of 313


Else and Helmuth Hausmann



Jessica Williams Stark





Suzhou River and Garden Bridge: Reading Images of 327


Exile in Shanghai



Mareike Hetschold





The Territorial Dimension of Spanish Republican 342


Exile in the Cities of Argentina



Federico Martín Vitelli





Calle de López or Spain in Mexico 352


Valeria Sánchez Michel





Reinhabiting the City as an Artistic Open Space: Urban 361


Imprints of Exile Artists in Buenos Aires and Marseille in



the 20th Century



Laura Karp Lugo and Marine Schütz



Notes on the Contributors 377



Index 391