Refugees, aristocrats and modern British painters – the week in art

Ben Uri Gallery’s exhibition of German artist émigrés opens this week, while the Scottish National Gallery shows off two masterpieces of nature’s power – all in your weekly dispatch

Refugees: The Lives of Others
This exhibition looks at German artistic émigrés to Britain – from Frank Auerbach, who came to Britain as a child to escape the Holocaust that killed both his parents, to the expressionist painter Ludwig Meidner, who fled Hitler as a mature and well-known artist. Eva Frankfurther, who has a parallel show until 18 June, came as a child, studied alongside Auerbach and painted immigrant communities in London’s postwar East End.
• Ben Uri Gallery and Museum, London, until 4 June

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