Peter László Péri (1899–1967) emigrated from Berlin to London in 1933 – persecuted for racial and political reasons, the capital was no longer a home for the Hungarian-born artist after the National Socialists took power. He had worked in Germany from 1920 to 1933. The renowned gallery owner Herwarth Walden exhibited his concrete and wooden…

»Sculptures and reliefs have been cast in concrete ever since the beginning of its use for building, but modelling in concrete is comparatively new. After many years of experiment, I have found that this method of modelling has many advantages. The sculpture which gets stone hard during the process of modelling retains the freshness of…