Lucian Freud's Childhood Correspondence and Drawings
Research Area
Art History
Visual Arts
Publications
Elizabeth Lamle, 'Intergenerational Perspectives on Migration in the 1930s: The Letters of Lucian and Lucie Freud', Charmian Brinson and Anna Nyburg (Eds.), Innocence and Experience: Childhood and the Refugees from Nazism in Britain, Peter Lang, 2024.
'A Child's Perspective on Migration: Lucian Freud's Unpublished Childhood Correspondence and drawings', Innocence and Experience: Childhood and the 1930s Refugees, Research Centre for German & Austrian Exile Studies at the IMLR, December 2021
'Intergenerational Perspectives and Familial Dynamics in Exile: the Freud Family's Wartime Correspondence', M4C Research Festival 2022, Midlands4Cities Doctoral Training Partnership, June 2022.
Presented an overview of my thesis, Cross-College Forum: Research on Race, Migration and Post/Colonialism, University of Birmingham, June 2022.
'Lucian Freud's Childhood Correspondence and Drawings', 27th Postgraduate Research Student Conference, German Historical Institute London, January 2023.
'From Personal to Public: Examining the Freud Family’s Archived Correspondence', Letter Writing in Holocaust Studies, The Wiener Holocaust Library, May 2023.
'From Nazi Germany to Dartington Hall: Community and Migration in the Freud Family Letters', Creative Sanctuary: Refugees at Dartington in the 1930s and Beyond, Insiders/Outsiders + Platforma Festival , October 2023.
'Art as a Medium for Exile Perspectives', Race, Migration, Memory, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, November 2023.
Public Engagement & Impact
'Lunchtime Lecture: Freud's Juvenilia', Celebrating the Lucian Freud Centenary: From Child Refugee to Master of Modern British Art, a series of lectures oranised by Jewish Renaissance, run in partnership with the Lyons Learning Project and Insiders/Outsiders. October 2022. Click here to view the talk.
Other Research Interests
20th Century German visual culture
exile and émigré artists
the Spanish Civil War
Figurative painting
Gender and queer studies
Teaching
Postgraduate Teaching Associate, University of Birmingham, 2022/23. Seminar tutor for first year History of Art module, 'Historical Concepts in the History of Art'.
Postgraduate Teaching Associate, University of birmingham, 2024/25. Seminar tutor for first year History of Art module, 'Writing Art's Histoires I'.
Guest Lecture, 'Is Music Political?' for the module: 'What's Trending (Current Affairs in Politics and International Relations)', Politics and Social Policy BSc, Aston University, 20/03/2023.
Curator
The Royal Collection Trust, Sights of Wonder, The Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham, June 2020.
