Duerers Heritage

Name: Duerers Heritage
Genre: Documentary
Released: 26 Aug 1996
Rating: 0.00
Cast: Bernhard Heisig, Sonja Kurella, Werner Tübke, Heinrich Witz

Dammbeck, himself an alumnus of the Leipzig Academy for Graphic and Book Design, presents the origins of the new German realism developed by the so-called Leipzig School, which took place in the context of socialist-realist dogma in the GDR before the Wall was built in 1961. After the Wall came down in 1989, what happened to the major Leipzig School painters Werner Tübke and Bernhard Heisig, who had been called “Dürer’s red heirs” by West German journalists in the 1970s? In the film, Tübke, Heisig, and former GDR officials who were involved with the cultural scene in Leipzig at the time talk about modernism, conformism, political pressure, party discipline, personal claims, and fading memory. The documentary paints an insightful, often critical picture of early East German art history.

Year: 1996

Genre: Documentary

Studio: Lutz Dammbeck Filmproduktion

Director: Lutz Dammbeck

Cast: Bernhard Heisig, Sonja Kurella, Werner Tübke, Heinrich Witz

Crew: J.U. Lensing (Music), Margot Neubert-Maric (Editor), Lutz Dammbeck (Script), Thomas Plenert (Camera Operator), Eberhard Geick (Camera Operator), Lutz Dammbeck (Director)

Runtime: 59 minutes

Release: Aug 26, 1996

IMDb: 0.00/10 by 0 users

Popularity: 1

Country: Germany

Language: Deutsch