Hardly anyone knows the artist, but almost everyone knows her paintings: Tamara de Lempicka, icon of the 1920s. Her art deco paintings of women in cars or in evening dress adorn book covers and break auction records. But who was she? The ARTE documentary by Grimme Prize-winning author Sylvie Kürsten ventures a self-portrait of Lempicka, narrated and played by Nicole Heesters.
Chuck Close, an astounding portrait of one of the world's leading contemporary painters, was one of ...

A unique documentary that follows artist Mark Waller and his family over 20 years. When Mark is diag...

This film explains what James Ensor (1860-1949) meant for the development of art and makes palpable ...

Documentary film about the painter and sculptor Jörg Immendorff who ranks among the most important G...
Documentary film about Gothic painting and its representatives.
The first part of the documentary about the work of the Czech painter Mikoláš Alš called "The Song o...
A short documentary film about Czech-Bulgarian painter Ivan Mrkvička

Mixing archival footage with interviews, this film celebrates one of Los Angeles's most influential ...

The film approaches the work of the Greek artist Nikos Koniaris. The particular way in which the pai...

Jean-Michel Frank designed style-defining interiors in the 1920s with the timeless ideal of simplici...

A young working class Baltimore man spends 10 years on a single portrait, believing it is his means ...

Artist Taylor Denise sets out to make her first painting, which also happens to be her largest work ...

Following her award-winning documentary, One Tree Three Lives, about novelist Hualing Nieh Engle, Ho...

With his seemingly naïve, symbolic paintings, Joan Miró formed a new artistic language in the 20th c...