Painter Movies

For the whole of his long life Emil Nolde, the leading German Expressionist, luxuriated in colour. Before the First World War in Berlin he made many...

Believing that his model is in trouble, a retired engineer, now an amateur painter, hires a private detective to find her.

Documentary about the work and the unconventional approach of the painter Karel Appel. The film shows him flinging vast amounts of paint onto the...

Going into my interview with Laurel Greenfield, I thought the majority of our conversation would be about her inspiration for painting food and why...

Documentary film about the Austrian graphic artist Alfred Kubin. Kubin's work is characterized by the depiction of fantastic dream visions, which are...

Directed by Margot Benacerraf, Reverón is a poetic and visually striking documentary that delves into the life and artistic vision of...

In 2022, an exhibition on the Swiss painter-sculptor Flavio Paolucci was planned in a German museum. The museum had reserved a white wall on which...

Thanks to his experiments with brushstrokes and impasto, Camille Pissaro came to be known as one of the fathers of Impressionism.

Tjipto Setiyono, 85, is a rickshaw painter. Despite being past his prime, he lives alone in a 3-by-3 meter square boarding room, in which...

A recluse painter’s careful routine is shaken up when a mysterious young woman knocks on his door. An encounter that will confront him with his...

1950 Belgian short documentary by Paul Haesaerts

A documentary that portrays not only the poet and painter Mario Cesariny but as well his life, his journey and his individuality.

A powerful and intimate portrait, Joan Mitchell: Portrait of an Abstract Painter captures Mitchell's independent spirit and testifies eloquently to...

He was always busy making the absolute painting, one of Jaap Hillenius' sons says about his father. The artist who was killed in a car accident in...

This documentary tells the story of the life, career and influence of the surrealist painter Salvador Dali and the stunning works of his...

With his vivid oil paintings, Albert Anker captured Swiss folk life like no other. Together with musician Endo Anaconda we discover the...