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View of Hutchinson Camp, Douglas

Date made: 1940-1941

Description: A stencil printed view of Hutchinson Internment Camp, Douglas during the Second World War by the artist Paul Henning.

Collected by Dr Klaus E. Hinrichsen (1912-2004) during his time as an internee in Hutchinson Camp. Hinrichsen was a young art historian who had fled to Britain in the 1930s to avoid Nazi persecution, and found himself interned with some of the leading German refugee artists of the day. He appreciated and recognised the significance of the material being produced in Hutchinson Camp, and began to collect and exhibit pieces within the camp. The resulting collection contains examples of the camps leading artists such as Eric Kahn, Hermann Fechenbach, Helmut Weissenborn, Bruno Ahrends, Fritz Kraemer and Paul Henning.

Materials: paper

Object name: print

Collection: Art Collection

ID number: 1996-0070/2

Subject tags : #WW2INTERNMENTMUSEUMCOLLECTIONS

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