HERBERT BIER & THE ASHMOLEAN COLLECTION TALK

This event is in-person at the Museum in the Headley Lecture Theatre and online via Zoom.

Tickets are £8 each. Booking is essential. Book below

With Marion Davies, award-winning fine art documentary photographer

In this fascinating talk, Marion Davies will discuss the life of her father, Herbert Bier. She will recount his story from having to leave his uncle’s firm in Frankfurt, after they were both forbidden as Jews to work as art dealers, to his experiences as a refugee art dealer in Britain.

In particular Marion will reference his professional and personal relationship with Ashmolean Keeper Sir Karl Parker and the works Bier enabled the Ashmolean to acquire between 1942 and 1962.
 

Herbert Bier in 1929/1930 with the Dome Reliquary (Cologne, ca.1185), part of the Guelph Treasure, now displayed at the Kunstgewerbemuseum in Berlin

This event is part of the Shaped by Nature 2026 season of events.

BOOKING

This event takes place in-person in the Headley Lecture Theatre and online via Zoom.

Tickets are £8 each. Booking is essential. 

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If you have any questions, please email us at publicprogrammes@ashmus.ox.ac.uk