Art documentaries

French artist Yves Klein had a love affair with the color blue. He was so intensely passionate about it, he invented his own shade, International Klein Blue, known as IKB, a glowing radiance somewhere between lapis lazuli and ultramarine.

Francis Bacon was the loudest, rudest, drunkest, most sought-after British artist of the 20th century. Twenty-five years after his death, his canvases regularly exceed £40million at auction. Bacon's appeal is rooted in his notoriety - a candid image he presented of himself as Roaring Boy, Lord of Misrule and Conveyor of Artistic Violence. This was true enough, but only part of the truth. He carefully cultivated the facade, protecting the complex and haunted man behind the myth. In this unique, compelling film, those who knew him speak freely, some for the first time, to reveal the many mysteries of Francis Bacon.

Meryl Streep narrates this technologically complex profile of Vermeer.

A Documentary about renowned British artist Damien Hirst

Manet is one of the main candidates for the title of the most important artist that ever lived. As the father of Impressionism he can be accused of inventing modern art. But his story is deeper than imagined.

Als Andy Warhol im Jahr 1968 angeschossen wird, beginnt er mit der Aufzeichnung seines Lebens und seiner Gefühle. In dieser Serie werden seine Geheimnisse enthüllt.

Exploring the pre-fame years of the celebrated American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, and how New York City, its people, and its tectonically shifting arts culture of the late 1970s and '80s shaped his vision.

Die Dokumentation dokumentiert das Leben des polnisch-amerikanischen Künstlers Stanislav Szukalski (1893-1987) von seinen frühen Jahren in Chicago über seine Zeit in Polen und Los Angeles bis hin zu seinen künstlerischen und politischen Beiträgen zur Welt.

The definitive documentary on the New York School Painters. Featuring footage of all the major figures of the New York Art Scene between 1940-1970, showing many of the artists before they became famous.

A painter recounts the life of Michelangelo.

Much has been written, but little is known about Johannes Vermeer, painter of iconic paintings and crowd pleasers such as The Milkmaid and Girl with a Pearl Earring. His small oeuvre is almost everything he left behind. Dicht bij Vermeer (Close to Vermeer) follows Gregor Weber, a globally renowned Vermeer expert and flamboyant curator at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. In the year before he retires, he works on his big dream: the largest Vermeer exhibition ever. Together with Weber, a number of Vermeer enthusiasts and experts go in search of what truly makes a Vermeer a Vermeer. Through new discoveries and by dissecting the work layer by layer, this film brings us closer to the painter to understand the decisions he made and the steps in his oeuvre.

Der Dokumentarfilmer begleitet den Erfinder Tim Jenison, der um die Welt reiste, um die Werke des niederländischen Malers Johannes Vermeer zu studieren und dessen spezielle Technik zu verstehen und zu replizieren.

A new look at Van Gogh, through the legacy of the largest private collector of artworks by the Dutch painter: Helene Kröller-Müller (1869-1939), who, in the early 20th Century, ended up buying nearly 300 of his works.

With unprecedented access to pivotal artists and the white-hot market surrounding them, this film dives deep into the contemporary art world, holding a fun-house mirror up to our values and times.

George Zimbel's work has documented the 20th century with grace, spontaneity and a remarkable eye for telling a story in one 35 mm frame.

A documentary about an important American still photographer who captured New York City in the 1960s (his work there is said to have influenced the TV show Mad Men) and later the West in Texas and Los Angeles.

Ein 90-minütiger Dokumentarfilm, der den 500. Jahrestag der Geburt des letzten großen Künstlers der italienischen Renaissance feiert, des unerwartetsten Geistes, den die Kunst der Malerei je hervorgebracht hat: Tintoretto.

Eine raue und magische Reise in das Leben der ikonischen Künstlerin Frida Kahlo, erzählt durch ihre eigenen Worte aus Tagebüchern, Briefen, Essays und Interviews.