“1000 Masterpieces from the Great Museums of the World” is one of the most successful TV series about art. The original, with improved image quality, takes us on a fascinating journey through the history of art. Comprehensively illustrated and compellingly presented – the well-known authors of five short art surveys provide a deeper insight into the masterpieces of painting. Painting in Germany after 1945 covers a wide range of themes – war, the German economic miracle, the building of the Berlin Wall, the Cuban missile crisis. It is therefore hardly surprising that art from this period not only covers a variety of styles but also features simultaneously contrasting approaches. Artists like Baselitz, Graubner, Winter, Kiefer and Klapheck represent art between extremes – the figurative and the abstract. Fritz Winter: Composition in Blue (1953), Georg Baselitz: The great friends (1965), Konrad Klapheck: The War (1965), Gotthard Graubner: Black Skin (1969), Anselm Kiefer: Interior (1981)