Acquired in July 1909 by art collector Wilhelm von Bode (1845-1929), director general of the Prussian Art Collections and founding director of the Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum, now the Bode-Museum, the Bust of Flora, Roman goddess of flowers, has been the subject of controversy for more than a century.

M.C. Escher is among the most intriguing of artists. In 1956 he challenged the laws of perspective w...

The intricate history of UFA, a film production company founded in 1917 that has survived the Weimar...

In 2009, art detective Dr Bendor Grosvenor caused a national scandal by proving that the Scottish Na...

Katherine Watson is a recent UCLA graduate hired to teach art history at the prestigious all-female ...

A taxi drives through the city of Berlin. Its driver is a punk, left and a well-known figure in the ...

An account of the life and work of the multidisciplinary Spanish artist Mariano Fortuny Madrazo (187...

A woman tries to survive the invasion of Berlin by the Soviet troops during the last days of World W...

At the Wannsee Conference on January 20, 1942, senior Nazi officials meet to determine the manner in...

Dance film inspired by the life and work of the artists Camille Claudel and Auguste Rodin.

In 1940, the German artist Charlotte Salomon (1917-43) undertook an extraordinary artistic adventure...
The film accompanies Jenny Gröllmann, a German actress, during the last two years of her life.

At the turn of the sixteenth century, Michelangelo (Mark Frankel), Raphael (Andrea Prodan), and Leon...
An essay style film in the vein of Orson Welles' "F For Fake" and Jon Jost's "Speaking Directly". Fr...

The true story of Charlotte Salomon, a young German-Jewish painter who comes of age in Berlin on the...

One public housing flat in Moscow stood out above all others: the home of George Costakis, the forem...

Edward Wilson, the only witness to his father's suicide and member of the Skull and Bones Society wh...

When 17-year-old Effi Briest marries the elderly Baron von Instetten, she moves to a small, isolated...

A portrait of Spanish comic book author Paco Plaza.

German TV film, also shown on Spanish TV in 1976, this is a film all about TD which includes informa...