Films on Art

Joachim Brohm. Transformations
Photographic projects since 1979

Joachim Brohm is regarded as a pioneer of documentary-artistic colour photography in Germany. Even whilst studying from 1977 at the Folkwang School in Essen under Otto Steinert and Michael Schmid, he consistently chose to work in co...

Laurenz Berges (born 1966 in Cloppenburg) belongs to the younger generation who studied under Bernd and Hilla Becher at the Düsseldorf Art Academy. Prior to this, however, Berges studied at the Folkwang School in Essen and, in 1989, spent time as an assistant to Evelyn Hofer in New York City, an ...

Andreas Gursky is one of the most important international artists working with the medium of photography.
The filmmaker Ralph Goertz accompanied Andreas Gursky for eight years with his camera in his studio, taking photographs, in his class at the Düsseldorf Academy of Art, setting up his exhibit...

Thomas Ruff is regarded as one of the most influential contemporary photographic artists; he studied photography at the Düsseldorf Art Academy under Hilla and Bernd Becher. In the late 1980s, he gained international recognition for his large-format portraits. With series such as ‘jpegs’, ‘nudes’,...

German photographer Candida Höfer studied first film at the Duesseldorf Art Academy with Ole John and since 1976 photography with Bernd Becher. Together with Thomas Struth, Andreas Gursky and Thomas Ruff she was part of the extraordinary "Becher-class", which is internationally best known as the ...

Anna and Bernhard Blume were a German artist couple who worked with the medium of photography. Their work focused on large-scale installations and performance art. In their works, they engaged with narrow-minded conventionality and the German petty bourgeoisie in an ironic and grotesque manner.

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Jörg Sasse gehört zu den wichtigsten deutschen Künstlern und bedient sich des Mediums der Fotografie auf sehr eigenständige Weise. Reduktion, Reflexion und digitale Bearbeitung stehen im Fokus des 1962 in Bad Salzuflen geborenen Künstlers. 1981 wurde Sasse in die Klasse von Bernd Becher an der Dü...

Director's Cut by Ralph Goertz

The German artist Thomas Struth studied first painting with Gerhard Richter and switched into the class of Bernd Becher at the Art Academy in Düsseldorf. Nowadays he is renowned for his practice of creating singular images, each within strictly segregated subject f...

Tony Cragg gilt als bedeutendster britischer Bildhauer der Gegenwart, der seit den 1970er Jahren mit verschiedensten Materialien wie Holz, Glas, Bronze und Gips experimentiert und die Beziehung von natürlichen und künstlichen Formen und Strukturen untersucht.

Der Filmmemacher Ralph Goertz beglei...

The American photographer Stephen Shore is internationally best known as one of the leaders of the 'New Color Photography' movement in the US in the 1960s and 70s. This film starts with his early Warhol photographs Shore made during his school time in the 60s. After he did start shooting in black...

The American photographer Joel Meyerowitz counts as one of the pioneers of street photography and - next to Stephen Shore and William Eggleston - as one of the most significant representatives of the American 'New Color Photography' movement since the 1960s.

Next to his early street photographs ...

Gary Hill is considered one of the most important pioneers of video art. In his installations and video works, Gary Hill explores the processes of perception and media influence. Intertextuality and physicality play an important role, especially in his early work.
The documentary film accompanies...

Robert Mapplethorpe counts as one of the most significant photographers of the 20th century and created a body of work which is - till today - outstanding.

In the early 1970s, after he had finished art school at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, he was beginning to start experimenting with a Polaroid...