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Chanel, Chanel (featuring Karl Lagerfeld)
Eila Hershon And Roberto Guerra, Karl Lagerfeld
ARTHAUS |
K100688 |
NTSC |
807280068894 |
978-3-939873-32-7
Chanel – more than just one of the world’s most successful fashion labels, also the name of a woman who led a fascinating life. This Paris designer banished the corset from women‘s fashion, created the bouclé suit and the famous ‘little black dress’, and made costume jewellery socially acceptable. Her elegant but comfortable clothing stressed the new-won freedoms of 1920’s women; her perfume was irresistible. Chanel’s head designer Karl Lagerfeld explains why her simple style is still today an inspiration. Unique footage and designs from the archives reveal Coco Chanel’s incomparable passion both for fashion and for life.
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Vivienne Westwood
Gilian Greenwood
ARTHAUS |
K106000 |
NTSC |
807280600094 |
978-3-939873-35-8
Vivienne Westwood created outfits that shocked. Her creations are exhibited in museums today. In the 1970's the Brit became know as the creator of punk-fashion. She cultivated her image of a rebel in the international fashion scene too. Inspired by historical designs, she mixed wild styles, materials and epochs, helped establish the renaissance of the corset, and made tweed and platform heels popular on the catwalk. The film accompanies the unconventional designer at work. Malcolm McLaren and fashion experts talk about her multifaceted progression from the self-taught Queen of Punk to a Prêt-à-Porter trendsetter.
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Story of Fashion by Karl Lagerfeld Vol. I: The Remembrance of Things Past
Eila Hershon And Roberto Guerra, Karl Lagerfeld
ARTHAUS |
K106050 |
NTSC |
807280605099 |
978-3-941311-91-6
Feel like fashion? The Story of Fashion, with star designer Karl Lagerfeld, presents 100 years of fashion. Drawing on fashion magazines, photographs as well as unique footage, this trilogy considers the Zeitgeist of different periods. Portraits and interviews with stylistically influential fashion designers, photographers, critics and experts provide fascinating insights into the sensual world of fashion.
The Remembrance of Things Past commemorates the fashion and designers from the turn of the century to the 1920s. The inventor of haute couture, Charles Worth, creates the look for the most influential women of his time. This is fashion for the mature woman, for a society we find described in the novels of Proust. Poiret changes the silhouettes and establishes the first fashion empire, while the Ballet Russes introduces the exotic to fashion. The automobile is invented, women’s liberation gains momentum and fashion takes these changed life circumstances into account - the cut now follows the shape of the body while the corset loses importance. The young Chanel revolutionises fashion.
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Story of Fashion by Karl Lagerfeld Vol. II: The Art and Sport of Fashion
Eila Hershon And Roberto Guerra, Karl Lagerfeld
ARTHAUS |
K106052 |
NTSC |
807280605297 |
978-3-941311-93-0
The Art and Sport of Fashion traces the fashion from the 20s to the 50s. Art and sports exert their influence on style. The preoccupation with leisure brings with it new sportswear. Jean Patou and Coco Chanel are the forerunners in this new movement. Models and fashion photographers become central in this new business as patterns are now sold to American department stores. While Elsa Schiaparelli flirts with Surrealism, employing Salvador Dalí as a designer, actresses such as Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich and Joan Crawford appear in fashion ads that reach millions. After the war, Christian Dior changes the Paris world of fashion with New Look.
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Story of Fashion by Karl Lagerfeld Vol. III: The Age of Dissent
Eila Hershon And Roberto Guerra, Karl Lagerfeld
ARTHAUS |
K106054 |
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978-3-941311-94-7
The Age of Dissent follows fashion trends from the 50s to the 80s. Youth is ‘in’; the new idols are Marlon Brando, Brigitte Bardot and Audrey Hepburn. While Mary Quant and Vivienne Westwood make fashion for the young London ‘underground scene’, designers such as Courrèges, Ungaro, Rabanne and Cardin create fashion for the well-to-do. A new fashion consciousness manifests itself: alongside folklore, jeans and haute couture, anything pleasing to the eye is permitted. While Yves Saint Laurent dictates the trends in Paris, fashion finds new centres in Milan and New York. Fashion has become big business and shows a virtuoso command of the media.
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modern icons
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Francis Bacon
Melvyn Bragg, David Hinton
ARTHAUS |
K100634 |
NTSC |
807280063493 |
978-3-939873-09-9
Francis Bacon revolutionised figurative painting in the 20th century. The English painter unmasked his subjects in a provocative and ruthless manner. Deformed bodies, grimacing faces and the materiality of colour make us aware of brutality and sexuality, existential abysses and the fears of existence. Works like the portrait „Pope Innocent X“ from Velázquez inspired him just as much as Eisenstein’s epic film „The Battleship Potemkin“ for his famous motif: the Scream. Author Melvyn Bragg accompanies the painter throughout his day. This begins in his London atelier, leads us on to his favourite pub and ends up in a gambling club in Soho.
International Emmy
Best Arts Documentary, International TV Festival, Banff
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Bauhaus: The Face of the 20th Century
Julia Cave
ARTHAUS |
K100602 |
NTSC |
807280060294 |
978-3-939873-31-0
“Let us create the new building of the future together; it will combine architecture, sculpture, and painting in a single form”. With this vision, Walter Gropius, in 1919, opened the Staatliche Bauhaus Weimar, which was to become one of the most influential schools of art, design and architecture from Dessau to Chicago. Artists such as Kandinsky, Itten, Feiniger, Klee, Moholy-Nagy and Schlemmer taught there and, together with directors Gropius and van der Rohe, led the Bauhaus to embody reform, experimentation and the avant-garde. Through artworks, archival records and interviews, this film delves into the exciting story of the school and its protagonists.
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Marc Chagall
Kim Evans
ARTHAUS |
K100636 |
NTSC |
807280063691 |
978-3-939873-10-5
With lovers and violinists hovering overhead and unique colour compositions, Chagall advanced to the greatest art legend of the 20th century. Raised in a Jewish family in White Russia, painting took him out of the poverty-stricken, provincial limitations of his youth and brought him to the Parisian art world. Formed by the Jewish-Russian culture and the influence of the avant-garde in France, he was able to discover his own individual style. The film follows Chagall’s tracks from the viewpoint of an English artist. Starting in the Parisian artist colony “La Ruche”, he takes us on a voyage of discovery to Chagall’s fantastic and mysterious world.
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Paul Cézanne Three Colours
Janice Sutherland
ARTHAUS |
K100624 |
PAL |
807280062496 |
978-3-939873-05-1
Paul Cézanne counts as the father of modern painting. Far from Paris, in the South of France, his obstinacy as man and artist made him a pioneer of a new way of seeing. Returning always to the same sujets – the Mont Sainte-Victoire, bathing figures, or still lifes – he abandoned central perspective, distorted body-shapes and broke all the traditional rules of landscape painting. Aided by experts, and descendants of the artist, Matthew Collings gives a thorough introduction to Cézanne’s life and work, exploring the lifelong artistic quest of the man whom Picasso called “my only master”.
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Frida Kahlo
Eila Hershon And Roberto Guerra
ARTHAUS |
K100650 |
NTSC |
807280065091 |
978-3-939873-16-7
Frida Kahlo: declared a symbol of Mexican national heritage, made into a cult figure by the women's movement, praised by the likes of Picasso and Breton. At the age of 18, she suffered an accident that would forever change her life, destining her to pain, numerous operations and childlessness. This film takes you to the Blue House in Coyoacán, the place of her birth and the last years of her life. Today, the house serves as a museum dedicated to the charismatic artist. Haunting self-portraits and a stirring world of images tell of her life and passions, her thoughts and feelings, her exhausting love for Diego Rivera and her deep connection to Mexico.
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Wassily Kandinsky
André S. Labarthe
ARTHAUS |
K106048 |
NTSC |
807280604894 |
978-3-941311-95-4
Colour, form, area – this is the formula of the greatest pioneer of abstract painting. Kandinsky came to art late in life, but his impact through Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider) and Bauhaus paved the way for modern art. In 1913, he created one of the first abstract pictures, the theoretical basis of which was inspired by his essay Über das Geistige in der Kunst (On the Spiritual in Art). Accompanied by Mussorgsky’s Pictures From An Exhibition Labarthe goes on a sensual journey which makes the soul resound with colours and forms.
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Julio Gonzalez
Barrie Gavin (director)
ARTHAUS | K106014 | 807280601497 | DVD
Art documentary about Julio Gonzalez, the friend, instructor and student of Picasso. The Catalonian artist is renowned as the father of modern iron sculpture. Retrace Gonzalez's footsteps through Paris, the Riviera and Barcelona.
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Kazimir Malevich
Barrie Gavin, Reiner E Moritz (directors)
ARTHAUS | K106055 | 807280605594 | DVD
Art documentary about the revolutionary Russian artist who founded the Suprematist movement. "The world as the perception of an idea, independent of the image - that is the elementary essence of art" (Malevich, 1927)
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Jackson Pollock
Kim Evans
ARTHAUS |
K100664 |
NTSC |
807280066494 |
978-3-939873-21-1
In 1956, the Time Magazine mockingly called one of America’s most important 20th century artists “Jack the Dripper". It did so because Pollock stood for something new: With his innovative technique of “dripping“ and “pouring“ paint, he originated Action painting, and created radical, subjective works, which revolutionised the world of art. Pollock, however, also typified the image of the drunken artist in search of meaning, who became a legend as a result of his premature death. Kim Evans portrays the myth of Pollock, whose abstract painting was celebrated by the media as the quintessential American art form.
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In the footsteps of van Gogh
Dominik Rimbault
ARTHAUS |
K100626 |
PAL |
807280062694 |
978-3-939873-06-8
From a lay preacher to a misjudged artistic genius – undoubtedly, van Gogh was one of the most exceptional art personalities of the modern age. In Arles, under the sun of the Provence, he developed his distinctive style, painted with Gauguin and created some of his best works, shifting between periods of depression and rapturous artistic delirium until his suicide in 1890 in Auvers-sur-Oise. Dominik Rimbault’s insightful documentary delves deeper into the great paintings that, together with van Gogh’s lyrical letters to his brother Theo, hold a mirror to his soul.
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Werner Tübke
Reiner E. Moritz
ARTHAUS |
K106002 |
PAL |
807280600292 |
978-3-939873-36-5
Step right up into the world of Werner Tübke! The painter and illustrator from Leipzig created fantastical imagery, replete with virtuosity and a love of storytelling. In the style of the old masters, he transformed the everyday and the political into something that transcends time, and in that way developed his own distinct, anachronistic viewpoint. As a co-founder of the Leipziger Schule, Tübke paved the way for a figurative art, which has earned him international recognition since the 1970s. Reiner E. Moritz met with the GDR’s extravagant prince of painting in his studio and accompanied him at work on his showpiece, the German Peasants' War panorama in Bad Frankenhausen. (German language, English subtitles)
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classical masters
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Donatello - The First Modern Sculptor
Ann Turner
ARTHAUS |
K100674 |
PAL |
807280067491 |
978-3-939873-26-6
With his bronze David, Donatello created modernity’s first life-size, free-standing sculpture – a masterpiece of the early Italian Renaissance. Familiar with classical art, he enriched sculpture with individual expression, becoming an artist much in demand. He worked for the Quattrocento’s most powerful patrons, such as Cosimo de’ Medici and the Catholic Church. Innovations in sculptural craft like his flat relief technique made him very influential on into the 20th century. The film takes us to Florence, Padua and Siena, exploring, with sculptors like Henry Moore, the work of this bold craftsman so skilled at telling stories through images.
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Edouard Manet
Didier Baussy-Oulianoff
ARTHAUS |
K100656 |
PAL |
807280065695 |
978-3-939873-28-0
Edouard Manet was a flâneur in 19th century Paris. At ease among the grande bourgeoisie, a friend of Zola and Baudelaire, his interest turned gradually from history painting to scenes of city life. All his life he longed to be recognised, but works like Luncheon on the Grass and Olympia gave rise only to scandal. Moreover, his provocative snapshots of everyday life struck the viewer as only half-finished – a quality appealing to the artists later called Impressionists. The film tells of this eventful period and of the role played in it by Manet, who prepared the way for modern art.
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Velázquez - The Painter of Painters
Didier Baussy-Oulianoff
ARTHAUS |
K100608 |
PAL |
807280060898 |
978-3-939873-04-4
Like no other, Diego Velázquez inspired generations of European artists. His life and work are closely bound to the court of King Philip IV, who appointed him as court painter and on whose orders he travelled through Italy. Ambitious courtier that he was, the Spaniard was a master of observation and visual manipulation. Didier Baussy-Oulianoff showcases his epoch-making portraits and genre paintings that reveal Velázquez’s virtuosity in treating light, colour and sensuous characterisation. He also lifts Velázquez’s secret of painting that helped him become the “painter of painters”.
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Jan Vermeer - Light, Love and Silence
Michael Gill
ARTHAUS |
K100622 |
PAL |
807280062298 |
978-3-939873-00-6
Not much is known about Jan Vermeer. He only produced around 35 works of art. Yet they made him immortal. He was born in Delft and never left the town. He married there, worked as an art-dealer and died in debt. He bequeathed us a world of light, ambiguous interiors and insightful portraits. Michael Gill delves into the master’s world and talks about the camera obscura and Vermeer’s interest in science and cartography. Together with experts, he explores Vermeer’s secrets of perspective, space, allegory and symbolic relationships in his works.
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Titian
Didier Baussy-Oulianoff
ARTHAUS |
K100632 |
PAL |
807280063295 |
978-3-939873-02-0
Titian’s genius and significance in European art are undisputed. Trained at the Giovanni Bellini workshop and influenced by working together with Giorgione, he came to a masterly use of colour, light and shade. His oeuvre contains everything his times demanded: drama, carnal lust, religious fervour, mythology and portraits. Didier Baussy-Oulianoff takes us to the places where the renaissance artist devised his works and worked for the most influential courts. Contemporaries of Titian’s, such as Vasari and Aretino, also get a look in and we see that, in addition to being a gifted portrait-painter, Titian was also a skilled businessman.
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William Hogarth - Hogarth's Progress
Roger Parsons
ARTHAUS |
K100646 |
PAL |
807280064698 |
978-3-939873-15-0
Satirical, critical, talented – William Hogarth was one of the most original British artists of the 18th Century. The son of a poor schoolmaster made a name for himself as a portraitist and became best known for his satirical etchings. In strange and graphic tales, such as A Harlot's Progress, he denounced the social and political injustices of his time. Often pirated, Hogarth fought for the first image copyright law. Together with illustrators and writers from today, Andrew Graham-Dixon explores Hogarth's birth city London and recounts the life and work of a man who is regarded as the forerunner of modern caricature.
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contemporary art
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Roy Lichtenstein
Chris Hunt
ARTHAUS |
K100652 |
PAL |
807280065299 |
978-3-939873-17-4
Blondes, superheroes and Mickey Mouse – with his drastically enlarged comic subjects, Lichtenstein caused a commotion in the art world of the 1960s. In 1964, a New York Times headline read: “One of the Worst Artists in America." Since then, the American artist who died in 1997 has come to rank as one of the greatest icons of pop art next to Andy Warhol. Benday dots became his trademark, his artworks seemingly anonymous, mechanical reproductions in the age of mass media, Disneyland and billboards. Chris Hunt met the likable artist in his New York studio and found himself face to face with a great painter as well as a “closet classicist.”
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Claes Oldenburg
Gerald Fox
ARTHAUS |
K100672 |
PAL |
807280067293 |
978-3-939873-25-9
Giant hamburgers and soft toilets – his images of consumerism, executed in disorienting materials and dimensions, and environments made Claes Oldenburg a key figure in Pop Art. Today, his landscape art and large sculptures are modern monuments which have made this American artist famous far beyond the art world. Gerald Fox accompanied Oldenburg during the construction, in 1995, of one of these large-scale projects and the preparation of his Anthology retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum. Artists like Roy Lichtenstein give a glimpse into the world of a multi-faceted artist who transforms everyday objects into both sensual and ironical artworks.
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Robert Rauschenberg - Man at Work
Chris Granlund
ARTHAUS |
K100630 |
PAL |
807280063097 |
978-3-939873-08-2
For the New York Times Rauschenberg was a “Titan of American art“; for Guggenheim Director Thomas Krens the “Picasso of the second half of the 20th century“. Rauschenberg made his name in 1953 by his apparently crazy action of erasing a De Kooning drawing. With so-called “Combines”, which united trash from the streets of New York with painting in the Abstract Expressionist style, he introduced reality and sculptural plasticity into the pictorial image, preparing the way for Pop Art. Chris Granlund visited this multi-faceted artist in his Florida studio in 1997, also interviewing such important friends and colleagues as Merce Cunningham and Leo Castelli.
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Olafur Eliasson - Notion Motion
Jan Schmidt-Garre
ARTHAUS |
K106008 |
NTSC |
807280600896 |
978-3-939873-39-6
This portrait of the Danish artist Olafur Eliasson (b.1967) introduces his work and aesthetic theories as it documents one of his largest exhibitions ever, Notion Motion in Rotterdam. Since the early 1990s Eliasson has built up an incredible œuvre of abstract rainbows, sunsets, waterfalls, scent walls, mist, shafts of light, and periscopes. His work navigates between natural phenomena and technology, and he aims above all to make spectators aware of their perception. Eliasson is currently exhibiting in a high-profile show dedicated to his work at Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art.
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Helmut Newton - Frames from the Edge
Adrian Maben (feat. Karl Lagerfeld, Catherine Deneuve)
ARTHAUS |
K100686 |
NTSC |
807280068696 |
978-3-939873-29-7
Strong women in provocative poses, confident, mysterious – whether in fashion, portraiture or nudes, Newton’s dramatically staged, voyeuristic shots are also reflections of Western society. In 1988, Adrian Maben visited the German-Australian star photographer in his adopted home in Monte Carlo and accompanied him to photo sessions in Los Angeles, Berlin and Paris. On these trips, he caught rare glimpses of the artist’s private life and work. Stars like Karl Lagerfeld and Catherine Deneuve recount what it was like to work with one of the most sought-after photographers of the 20th century.
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Jasper Johns - Ides in Paint
Rick Tejada-Flores
ARTHAUS |
K100648 |
PAL |
807280064896 |
978-3-939873-03-7
With his portrayal of the American flag, Johns revolutionised the American art scene and became, along with Robert Rauschenberg, a forerunner of pop-art and minimalism. The Museum of Modern Art bought three of his works as early as 1958 when he had his legendary first solo exhibition at Leo Castelli’s gallery in New York. Ever since, his works have been fetching record prices on the art market. The film gives an overview of the unique artist, his working methods, his aims and his career. Furthermore, it's not only Johns himself who makes an appearance, but also critics, curators and people from his entourage, such as John Cage, Merce Cunningham and Castelli.
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Norman Foster
Mark Kidel
ARTHAUS |
K106006 |
PAL |
807280600698 |
978-3-939873-38-9
The airport in Hongkong, the Gherkin in London, the viaduct in Millau – all of these constructions bear the mark of the most significant architect of the present: Norman Foster. The Brit is considered to be the master of modern high-tech architecture and has more recently been recognised for his innovative reconstructions of historical buildings. This portrayal highlights the artistic development and personality of the frequently honoured architect and designer. In his London office and on the road, Foster elucidates legendary projects of the 1980s and 90s such as the Reichstag building in Berlin, the Carré d’Art in Nîmes or the television tower in Santiago de Compostela.
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John Baldessari - This Not That
Jan Schmidt-Garre
ARTHAUS |
K106004 |
NTSC |
807280600490 |
978-3-939873-37-2
John Baldessari is one of the pioneers of conceptual art, which revolutionized contemporary art in the 1960s, and is still a profound influence on young artists today. The film shows John Baldessari in all aspects of his work: as an artist in his studio, with the technicians he collaborates with, as a teacher interacting with his students, as a passionate observer of the contemporary scene and visiting the Biennale in Venice as well as the Basel Art Fair. The film provides us with insights into the work of a radically modern-thinking artist and sharpens our perception of the often inaccessible world of contemporary art.
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Wolfgang Mattheuer
Reiner E. Moritz
ARTHAUS |
K106010 |
NTSC |
807280601091 |
978-3-941311-78-7
Wolfgang Mattheuer, together with Bernhard Heisig and Werner Tübke, is one of the main protagonists of the Leipzig School. With works such as Behind the Seven Mountains (1973) the graphic artist, painter and sculptor is one of the most controversial and yet most celebrated artists of the former GDR. With the use of mythology, literary references, and ambiguous details, he subverted the ideological edicts of the system. This film presents the great works of this reserved, yet perceptive ‘picture maker’. An insightful interview with Mattheuer introduces us to his eclectic visual world and his metaphorical response to contemporary events and the GDR regime.
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Bernhard Heisig
Bernhard Heisig
ARTHAUS |
K106018 |
NTSC |
807280601893 |
978-3-941311-82-4
In the mists of war and violence, the Harlequin, trumpet in hand, drifts through ravaged landscape passing a cripple and a marionette: Bernhard Heisig's pictorial worlds shock the viewer by depicting the great dramas of German history. Both a victim and a perpetrator in World War II and in the GDR dictatorship, the artist's search for sense and truth led him to his moving image formulas. Director Reiner E. Moritz converses with the renowned ex-principal of the Leipzig Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst (Academy of Visual Arts) about his work, which influenced the development of art for many decades in the rigid GDR system. "I can only really paint rage well. Rage!"
-Bernhard Heisig
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Willi Sitte
Willi Sitte
ARTHAUS |
K106030 |
NTSC |
807280603095 |
978-3-941311-88-6
Painter and government official – the two sides of Willi Sitte which made him the most important yet most controversial East German artist. Portraying the working class, defying imperialism or revealing intimate togetherness, he became the leading figure of Socialist Realism. His career in the Association of Fine Artists (VBK) and the Central Committee (ZK) of the SED elevated his status to that of ‘Prince of East German Painting’. Reiner Moritz met the controversial, first-rate draughtsman in his studio after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Through his life and work, he traces the story of Sitte’s artistic development in the service of socialist ideology. (German language, English subtitles)
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Harald Metzkes
Harald Metzkes
ARTHAUS |
K106032 |
NTSC |
807280603293 |
978-3-941311-89-3
Pierrot, the Harlequin and Don Quixote come from Berlin. They are the actors in Harald Metzkes’ paintings, the parable-like characters in the great tragicomedy of human life, the ambivalent interplay between 'black and white' in daily as well as political life. Using characters from literature, mythology and the circus, Metzkes rejected the ideological appropriation of the GDR state apparatus. His melancholic sensualism made him a protagonist of the Berlin School. Reiner E. Moritz visited the 'Cézannist' shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall. In conversation with Metzkes, he traces the life and work of one of East Germany's most lyrical artists. "Man is ultimately alone with his inner self, and he will remain so.“ -Harald Metzkes (German language, English subtitles)
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art through the ages: 100 masterworks
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American Paintings 50s & 60s - 100 Masterworks
Reiner E. Moritz
ARTHAUS |
K105002 |
PAL |
807280500295 |
978-3-939873-82-2
1000 Masterpieces from the Great Museums of the World is one of the most successful TV series about art. The original, with improved image quality, takes us on a fascinating journey through the history of art in a virtual gallery tour. Comprehensively illustrated and compellingly presented – the well-known authors of five short art surveys provide a deeper insight into the masterpieces of painting.
US-American painting from the 1950's and 60's emerged at a time when the country became a hub of international art. From the figurative movement to Colour Field painting and over to Pop Art, the authors present images, some of which were key works of their time, which document the diversity of American post-war art.
Richard Lindner: THE MEETING (1953)
Jasper Johns: FLAG (1954)
Morris Louis: BETA KAPPA (1961)
Roy Lichtenstein: GIRL WITH HAIR RIBBON (1965)
Andy Warhol: THE TEXAN, PORTRAIT OF ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG (1963)
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Bauhaus Masters - 100 Masterworks
Reiner E. Moritz
ARTHAUS |
K105013 |
NTSC |
807280501391 |
978-3-941311-90-9
1000 Masterpieces from the Great Museums of the World is one of the most successful TV series about art. The original, with improved image quality, takes us on a fascinating journey through the history of art. Comprehensively illustrated and compellingly presented – the well-known authors of five short art surveys provide a deeper insight into the masterpieces of painting.
The Bauhaus (1919-1933) is considered the most prestigious school of architecture, design and art. This film introduces five of the most important Bauhaus teachers, whose visions and art theories made the school an icon of reform, experimentation, and the avant-garde. Their works and teachings, derived from Bauhaus ideas, spread all over the world, and have greatly influenced the modernist style.
Josef Albers: HOMAGE TO THE SQUARE: AGAINST DEEP BLUE (1955)
Lyonel Feiniger: BIRD CLOUD (1926)
Johannes Itten: THE MEETING (1916)
László Moholy-Nagy: LIS (1922)
Oskar Schlemmer: FIGURES WITH BALUSTRADES (1931)
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Cubism and Futurism - 100 Masterworks
Reiner E. Moritz
ARTHAUS |
K105001 |
PAL |
807280500196 |
978-3-939873-81-5
1000 Masterpieces from the Great Museums of the World is one of the most successful TV series about art. The original, with improved image quality, takes us on a fascinating journey through the history of art. Comprehensively illustrated and compellingly presented – the well-known authors of five short art surveys provide a deeper insight into the masterpieces of painting.
Cubism and Futurism – at the beginning of the 20th Century these two art movements revolutionised Western ways of seeing. Sceptical of the observable reality of the time, the European artists gave form to the multifarious nature of their perception and captured the dynamics of modern life. Whether they were works that provoked media attention or just symphonies of colour – these masterpieces paved the way for modern art.
Robert Delaunay: EIFFEL TOWER, CHAMPS DE MARS (1911)
Jean Metzinger: AT THE CYCLE-RACE TRACK (1914)
Kasimir Malewitsch: AN ENGLISHMAN IN MOSCOW (1913-14)
Giacomo Balla: ABSTACTE SPEEDS PLUS NOISE (1913-14)
Umberto Bocciono: FAREWELLS (1911)
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Early Painting of the Netherlands - 100 Masterworks
Reiner E. Moritz
ARTHAUS |
K105006 |
NTSC |
807280500691 |
978-3-941311-72-5
1000 Masterpieces from the Great Museums of the World is one of the most successful TV series about art. The original, with improved image quality, takes us on a fascinating journey through the history of art. Comprehensively illustrated and compellingly presented – the well-known authors of five short art surveys provide a deeper insight into the masterpieces of painting.
As early as the mid-1400s, painters from the Netherlands were famed for their landscapes, portraits and altarpieces, which displayed unprecedented naturalism, a breathtaking sense of spatiality, psychological intensity and detailed representation of fabrics. Works by van der Goes, tot Sint Jans, Memling, Patinier and van der Weyden illustrate the groundbreaking innovations of the Early Netherlandish School.
Hugo van der Goes: ADORATION OF THE MAGI (c. 1470)
Geertgen Tot Sint-Jans: JOHN THE BAPTIST IN THE WILDERNESS (c. 1490)
Hans Memling: ST.JOHN ALTARPIECE (before 1494)
Joachim Patinir: BAPTISM OF CHRIST (1515 – 1520)
Rogier van der Weyden: PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG WOMAN (c. 1455)
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German Expressionism - 100 Masterworks
Reiner E. Moritz
ARTHAUS |
K105000 |
PAL |
807280500097 |
978-3-939873-80-8
1000 Masterpieces from the Great Museums of the World is one of the most successful TV series about art. The original, with improved image quality, takes us on a fascinating journey through the history of art. Comprehensively illustrated and compellingly presented – the well-known authors of five short art surveys provide a deeper insight into the masterpieces of painting.
From Die Brücke (The Bridge) to Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider) the authors trace the new art of Expressionism in Germany during the early 20th Century. Among others they showcase the key works of a North German oddball, a Bavarian animal lover and a man who had in fact dissociated himself from the Expressionists, but who could not escape their influence.
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: FIVE WOMAN IN THE STREET (1913)
Emil Nolde: ST. MARY OF EGYPT (1912)
Max Beckmann: ACTORS (1941-42)
Franz Marc: THE TIGER (1912)
Gabriele Münter: VILLAGE STREET IN WINTER (1911)
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Impressionism - 100 Masterworks
Reiner E. Moritz
ARTHAUS |
K105009 |
NTSC |
807280500998 |
978-3-941311-75-6
1000 Masterpieces from the Great Museums of the World is one of the most successful TV series about art. The original, with improved image quality, takes us on a fascinating journey through the history of art. Comprehensively illustrated and compellingly presented – the well-known authors of five short art surveys provide a deeper insight into the masterpieces of painting.
In 1874, a group of artists nicknamed the Impressionists scandalized Paris with its first exhibition. The spirit of these young en plein air painters, who declared that the essence of their art was about capturing the impression of the moment in the colourful play of light, was too revolutionary. Cassatt, Caillebotte, Liebermann, Krøyer and Edelfelt represented a worldwide revolt that ushered in modernism by breaking with conventional ways of seeing the world.
Albert Edelfelt: LUXEMBOURG GARDENS (1887)
Peter Severin Krøyer: SUMMER EVENING AT SKAGEN (1892)
Gustave Caillebotte: PARIS STREET SCENE IN THE RAIN (1877)
Max Liebermann: WOMEN MENDING NETS (1887- 1889)
Mary Cassat: THE BATH (1891 - 1892)
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Surrealism - 100 Masterworks
Reiner E. Moritz
ARTHAUS |
K105004 |
NTSC |
807280500493 |
978-3-941311-70-1
1000 Masterpieces from the Great Museums of the World is one of the most successful TV series about art. The original, with improved image quality, takes us on a fascinating journey through the history of art. Comprehensively illustrated and compellingly presented – the well-known authors of five short art surveys provide a deeper insight into the masterpieces of painting.
In 1924 André Breton published the Surrealist Manifesto. It was the written constitution of a movement which, drawing on Sigmund Freud's psychoanalysis, espoused a higher reality of the subconscious and the world of dreams. Each of the five artists presented here gave form to these ideas in their own unique way – from Miró's world of symbolism and colour, to Tanguy's 'landscape of the soul', to Dalí's tangible dreamscapes.
Man Ray: LA FORTUNE (1938)
Paul Delvaux: PYGMALION (1939)
Salvador Dalí: THE BURNING GIRAFFE (1936)
Joan Miró: DUTCH INTERIOR I (1928)
Yves Tanguy: AT 4 O'CLOCK IN THE SUMMER (1929)
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Wallraf-Richartz & Ludwig Museums Cologne - 100 Masterworks
Reiner E. Moritz
ARTHAUS |
K105003 |
PAL |
807280500394 |
978-3-939873-83-9
1000 Masterpieces from the Great Museums of the World is one of the most successful TV series about art. The original, with improved image quality, takes us on a fascinating journey through the history of art. Comprehensively illustrated and compellingly presented – the well-known authors of five short art surveys provide a deeper insight into the masterpieces of painting.
Experience the art of Cologne throughout the centuries – with masterpieces from the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum and Museum Ludwig, this DVD provides a glimpse into the diversity of Cologne's art treasures. The city's oldest museum, for example, showcases a mediaeval panel painting that is considered to be the Mona Lisa of late Gothic painting. The Museum Ludwig, which specialises in collecting modern and contemporary art, is represented by a portrait of a Pop Art superstar.
Stefan Lochner: THE MADONNA OF THE ROSE BOWER (ca. 1450)
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: FIVE WOMEN IN THE STREET (1913)
Edvard Munch: FOUR GIRLS ON A JETTY (1905)
Andy Warhol: THE TEXAN, PORTRAIT OF ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG (1963)
Wolf Vostell: MISS AMERICA (1968)
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