Show shines light on overlooked artist who made UK’s first Holocaust memorial

Fred Kormis in his studio in the 1980s. He became a British citizen after fleeing Germany. Photograph: supplied

The work of an overlooked German-Jewish artist who created the UK’s first memorial to victims of Nazi persecution is to be the focus of an exhibition that shines light on the unreported aspects of his life.

Fred Kormis, who fled Germany in the 1930s and later became a British citizen, was described by the Wiener Holocaust Library in London as a forgotten émigré artist who played a unique role in Weimar culture and 20th-century British art.