Melvyn Bragg, Baron Bragg of Wigton in the County of Cumbria, is an English broadcaster, author and parliamentarian. He is the editor and presenter of The South Bank Show, and the presenter of the BBC Radio 4 documentary series In Our Time.
The South Bank Show is a British television arts magazine series originally produced by London Weekend Television and broadcast on ITV between 1978 and 2010. A new version of the series began 27 May 2012 on Sky Arts. Conceived, written, and presented by former BBC arts broadcaster Melvyn Bragg, the show aims to bring both high art and popular culture to a mass audience. In 2023, it was announced that Bragg would be leaving the series after 45 years.
Thomas Struth is a German photographer who is best known for his Museum Photographs series, black and white photographs of the streets of Düsseldorf and New York taken in the 1970s, and his family photographs series. Struth lives and works between Berlin and New York.
Gerhard Richter is a German visual artist. Richter has produced abstract as well as photorealistic paintings, and also photographs and glass pieces. He is widely regarded as one of the most important contemporary German artists and several of his works have set record prices at auction.
Sigmar Polke was a German painter and photographer.
Daniel Richter is a German artist. He is based in Berlin, and was previously active in Hamburg. He is known for large-scale oil paintings.
Robert Storr is an American curator, critic, painter, and writer.
Lawrence M. "Larry" Poons is an American abstract painter. Poons was born in Tokyo, Japan, and studied from 1955 to 1957 at the New England Conservatory of Music, with the intent of becoming a professional musician. After seeing Barnett Newman's exhibition at French and Company in 1959, he gave up musical composition and enrolled at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. He also studied at the Art Students League of New York. Poons taught at The Art Students League from 1966 to 1970 and currently teaches at the League.
In art, appropriation is the use of pre-existing objects or images with little or no transformation applied to them. The use of appropriation has played a significant role in the history of the arts. In the visual arts, "to appropriate" means to properly adopt, borrow, recycle or sample aspects of human-made visual culture. Notable in this respect are the readymades of Marcel Duchamp.
Michael Schultz was an internationally active German gallerist. Michael Schultz Gallery / Galerie Michael Schultz operated in Berlin, Germany, Beijing, and Seoul. Thus he ran four galleries on two continents. The galleries provided cultural exchange, as Asian artists are shown in Europe and vice versa. The Galerie Michael Schultz GmbH & Co.KG was dissolved on November 7, 2019 due to the opening of insolvency proceedings. Schultz died of a brief serious illness on December 28, 2021.
Sabine Moritz is a German painter and graphic designer. She is married to Gerhard Richter.
Daniel Maidman is a painter and art writer who lives in Brooklyn, New York. His art and writing reflect eclectic tastes, with an emphasis on realism.
Never Look Away is a 2018 German epic coming-of-age romantic drama film written and directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck. It was nominated for a Golden Lion at the 75th Venice International Film Festival and for a Golden Globe by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. It was nominated for two Academy Awards at the 91st Academy Awards, in the Best Foreign Language Film and Best Cinematography categories. This was only the second time that a German-language film by a German director was nominated for an Oscar in multiple categories, the other film being Wolfgang Petersen's Das Boot 36 years prior.
Cathedral Square, Milan is a 1968 painting by Gerhard Richter. The photorealistic painting is one of Richter's largest figurative paintings at 2,75 m x 2,90 m. It depicts Milan's Cathedral Square between the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele and the Milan Cathedral. It was sold by Sotheby's in New York on 14 May 2013 for 37.1 Million dollars, breaking Richter's own record price for an artwork by a living artist, his 1994 32.4 million dollar painting Abstraktes Bild (809-1).
Mahbuba Elham Maqsoodi is a German-Afghan artist based in Munich, Germany. She is recognized for miniature paintings and painting on glass, including designing 34 stained glass windows for Tholey Abbey in Germany. She is an advocate for women's rights, a published author, and received a PhD in Art History.
Corinna Belz is a German documentary filmmaker. She is known for the films Gerhard Richter Painting (2011), Peter Handke: In the Woods, Might Be Late (2016) and Inside the Uffizi (2021).
Christian Boltanski: Dead or Alive is an television program on The South Bank Show based on the life of a contemporary artist Christian Boltanski a French sculptor, photographer, painter, and filmmaker. Directed and produced by Gerald Fox in 1994, presented by Melvyn Bragg.
"Claes Oldenburg" is an art documentary episode featured on The South Bank Show in May 26, 1996, produced by LWT on Claes Oldenburg who was a Swedish-American sculptor known for his pop art, soft sculpture, happenings, and later public art installations with his wife and collaborator Coosje van Bruggen The documentary, currently available on Arthaus Video was directed and produced by Gerald Fox and features Oldenburg, Roy Lichtenstein, James Rosenquist, and Jim Dine.
The Fundamental Gilbert and George is two parts BAFTA award-winning documentary based on the life of two artists Gilbert Prousch and George Passmore, released in 1997 for the ITV series. The South Bank Show through LWT and RM arts. The film finds the essence of art and life in these two artists, directed and produced by Gerald Fox, featuring Melvyn Bragg, Andrew Graham-Dixon, Sarah Kent, Norman Rosenthal and David Sylvester.
Gerhard Richter Painting is a 2011 German documentary film about the artist Gerhard Richter. It was directed by Corinna Belz. It received the German Film Award for Best Documentary Film.
