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To honour the artist in his centenary year, this exhibition follows Herman's tumultuous journey as he fled across these four European cities. It brings together for the first time much of Herman's surviving work from this formative period, when his art was at its most experimental and his use of colour strikingly imaginative. The catalogue includes contributions from Herman's biographer, Monica Bohm-Duchen, as well as Professor Jerzy Malinowski (President of the Polish Institute of World Art Studies and Head of Modern and Oriental Art, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Torun, Poland), Nanny Schrijvers (curator and researcher, the Royal Museum, Antwerp), Douglas Hall (former first Keeper of the Scottish Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh), the artist's son, David Herman, Ben Uri's Head of Curatorial Services, Rachel Dickson and the curator Sarah MacDougall, the inaugural Ben Uri Eva Frankfurther Research and Curatorial Fellow for the study of emigre artists."