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Battle on Canvas: The Creation of a Monumental Painting by Werner Tübke (1988)
Directed by Detlef Tetzke
Documentary · 21m
In 1987, after over ten years of work, Werner Tübke (1929-2004), one of East Germany’s most important painters, completed the monumental, oil-on-canvas painting The Early Bourgeois Revolution in Germany. Painted in the Renaissance styles of Albrecht Dürer and Albrecht Altdorfer, the painting—measuring 14 meters high and 123 meters wide—is in the Panorama Museum in Bad Frankenhausen, Thuringia, the site of the last battle of the German Peasants’ War. The museum was specifically built for the painting, one of the most figurative in recent art history.Interspersed with interviews with the artist, the documentary follows the complicated and elaborate creation of the monumental work, from signing the contract in 1976 to the last brush stroke on September 11, 1987. In 2011, the Panorama Museum was awarded the European Seal of Cultural Heritage.
Cast
Crew
- Director
- Detlef Tetzke
- Editor
- Evelyn Kuhnert
Details
- Original title
- Schlacht am Bild
- Release date
- 1988-06-01
- Runtime
- 21m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- DE
- Spoken languages
- German
- Countries
- East Germany
- Production
- DEFA-Studio für Spielfilme