Bimini Glass and the Politics of Survival

This is the story of six young artists who trained and became world famous in Vienna in the 1920s. Fritz Lampl was a poet and writer who turned to designing art glass; his wife Hilde and her sister Fritzi were dress designers; her brothers Josef and Artur Berger were architects and Josef's wife Margarete was a painter. They won international prizes and exhibited their work around the world. But because they were Jewish they fled from Vienna when Nazi Germany took over Austria, leaving...
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This is the story of six young artists who trained and became world famous in Vienna in the 1920s. Fritz Lampl was a poet and writer who turned to designing art glass; his wife Hilde and her sister Fritzi were dress designers; her brothers Josef and Artur Berger were architects and Josef's wife Margarete was a painter. They won international prizes and exhibited their work around the world. But because they were Jewish they fled from Vienna when Nazi Germany took over Austria, leaving behind their workshops, their homes, and the stock of their creations. Four of them settled in war-time London and started from scratch to re-establish their studios and their lives. This is their story.