Alice Berger Hammerschlag "Three Levels" Painting, Circa 1961

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This exceptional canvas by Alice Berger Hammerschlag (1917-69) is entitled :three Levels" and was made in 1961. It was included … Read more This exceptional canvas by Alice Berger Hammerschlag (1917-69) is entitled :three Levels" and was made in 1961. It was included in the 1970 retrospective exhibition at Arts Council Gallery and Brooke Park Gallery.

Hammerschlag was born in Vienna and studied art between 1929 and 1938 under Franz Cižek at the Kunstgewerbeschule and at the Vienna Academy of Arts. In 1938 she moved to Belfast, as a refugee on a British government permit for graphic designers, to avoid persecution under the Nazi regime.

In Northern Ireland Hammerschlag did design work for commercial publishers and, later, designed theatre sets for the Lyric Theatre Belfast, where she worked alongside, and became a close friend of, the choreographer and Holocaust survivor, Helen Lewis.

In 1941 the Ulster Academy of Arts published a portfolio of her lithographs in aid of the Ulster Hospital for Children and Women. She showed three paintings at the Ulster Academy of Arts in 1942 and again in 1944. Between 1950 and 1961 she showed a further seventeen works at the Academy. Hammerschlag was active in the running of the Lyric's New Gallery in Belfast and in 1959 had her first solo exhibition at the New Vision Centre Gallery in London.

An exceptional showing of her works entitled "The Return: Alice Berger Hammerschlag and The New Gallery" is currently running in Belfast ✨️

The exhibition is free and will run until 8 November 2026.

Exhibition co-curator and renowned art critic, Matthew Maw (@belfastmodernists) made indelible contributions to the huge renewed interest in her work and that of aseveral of the Belfast modernist painters.

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