Robin Hirsch was born in London during the Blitz to German Jews who had fled Hitler.  Robin's father had served in the Kaiser's army during the First World War, winning the Iron Cross Second Class, the same medal as a young corporal named Adolf Hitler.  Now in England, twenty years later, after being interned as an enemy alien and eventually released, he sits for the remaining five years of the war on the roof of their block of flats (apartment house), looking and listening for the bombs of his erstwhile countrymen.  

 His mother, a legendary Berlin beauty, owned an arts and crafts studio with two members of the German aristocracy who were instrumental in helping her to escape at the last moment. 

This complex ambiguous history informs both his life and his art. Join us for a unique evening with our special guest, Robin Hirsch.