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Duerers Heritage
1996 · 59 min
A thoughtful, talk-driven documentary that asks for patience and rewards it with a quietly critical look at art under pressure.
- Directed by
- Lutz Dammbeck
- Genres
- Documentary
- Starring
- Bernhard Heisig, Sonja Kurella, Werner Tübke
- Overview
- 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.
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- Directed by
- Lutz Dammbeck
- Genres
- Documentary
- Starring
- Bernhard Heisig, Sonja Kurella, Werner Tübke
