Siggi Jepsen, a young man in juvenile detention, must write an essay on "The Joys Of Duty" as part of his punishment. The topic overwhelms Siggi so much, he suffers at first from writer's block. Once put in solitary confinement, he finds the clarity to recount his childhood during the war in a small north-German village. His memories focus on his relationship with his father, a police officer of the village and a family friend and expressionist painter....

Spanish painter Don Francisco de Goya Lucientes' life, from being a painter in the court of King Carlos IV to his meeting with singer Maria Rosario and his subsequent warning not to stray from the official path.

A documentary film about the life of and artistic works from Joseph Beuys, a 20th century German sculptor and performance artist. The film includes interviews and comments from archival sources with the artist as well as comments from Caroline Tisdall, Rhea Thönges-Stringaris, Franz Josef von der Grinten, Johannes Stüttgen, and Klaus Staeck. Beuys. Der Mann mit dem Hut, dem Filz und der Fettecke. 30 Jahre nach seinem Tod erscheint er uns als Visionär,...

This volume describes how French artist Henri Matisse (1869-1954) began cutting shapes out of paper and posting them on his walls, and how this simple pastime developed into a series of remarkable works of art, and presents fold-out reproductions of eight examples. Diagnosed with abdominal cancer in 1941, Matisse underwent surgery that left him chair and bed bound. Painting and sculpture had become physical challenges, so he turned to a new type of...