Battle of the picture
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Battle of the picture |
| Country of production | GDR |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1988 |
| length | 21 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Ted Tetzke |
| script | Ted Tetzke |
| production |
DEFA-Studio for Documentary Films , KAG: "forum" |
| music | Karl-Ernst Sasse |
| camera | Ted Tetzke Jürgen Parzsch |
| cut | Evelyn Kuhnert |
Battle of the Picture is a documentary film made by DEFA Studio for Documentaries by Ted Tetzke in 1988.
action
The film describes the creation of the monumental painting The Early Bourgeois Revolution in Germany by the Leipzig painter and art professor Werner Tübke in the Panorama Museum in Bad Frankenhausen . The documentary records in a detailed and informative way which efforts, hardships and stages had to be overcome before completion. The first photos are from July 1987 and show the painter on his way to work. Twelve years earlier he signed the contract for this picture, which is 14 meters high and 123 meters long, with an open completion date. The rotunda of the museum stands on the site of the last battle of the German Peasants' War in May 1525. To honor this event, this gallery was created for a picture.
Werner Tübke needs three years of preparation for the picture, in which he travels a lot, occupies himself with the relevant literature, studies about churches, reads himself into legal, social and military history, as well as the customs and traditions, the belief in miracles and informed witchcraft. That helps him to empathize with the time. In 1979 he began working on a 1:10 version of the picture, which will consist of several motifs, the central motif of which is the scene Im Schlachtberg 1525 . Tübke also solves the problem of accommodating the abundance of figures without them covering each other. Now one of the largest and most figurative paintings in art history is being created, without daylight, without any supporting visual design. If he works ten hours a day, he needs two and a half years to complete.
In May 1982 the canvas, which weighs several tons, is pulled up by 54 men within 18 minutes. Now specialists from Podolsk are applying the primer from a secret recipe, which will determine the luminosity and durability of the picture for centuries. By the end of April 1983, the outlines of 900 fields of the typical image were projected onto the screen in ten times magnification . The problem must be solved that this enlargement does not result in any coarsening. Experts have planned decades for the painterly execution that follows. On August 16, 1983, Tübke began to paint alone for the next few months, creating 150 square meters. Then, little by little, five helpers, who have passed the strict aptitude test for classification while maintaining their own creativity, work on the painting. The work towers face each other so that the foreman always has the results of his employees in view. In January 1985, 700 of the 1700 square meters had already been completed.
In the summer of 1987 it was completed, around 90,000 tubes of paint were used, applied in the classic way of panel painting and the canvas has now become 3 tons heavier. For many months, Werner Tübke has only been working with Eberhard Lenk , who has coped best with the rigors of the screen. For this he is allowed to portray himself in one of the figures in monk robes as recognition . Now the work is almost done. On September 11, 1987, the master worked on the last white surface, about 30 by 40 centimeters in size, in the picture, it was the flatterer's shoe and everything was done within 19 minutes. Flowers are served and Werner Tübke receives the GDR National Prize , 1st class for art and literature, for his work .
production
Schlacht am Bild was shot by the artistic working group “forum” under the working title Panorama on ORWO Color. The dramaturgy was in the hands of Ruth Schmal .
The first demonstrable performance took place on November 29, 1988 during the 31st International Leipzig Documentary and Short Film Week for cinema and television . In normal cinemas, it ran for the first time on March 9, 1989 in the series Offers in the Babylon cinema in Berlin . The film was shown for the first time on May 26, 1990 in the 1st program of the DFF .
Web links
- Battle of the picture at filmportal.de
- Battle at the picture on defa.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Berliner Zeitung of March 4, 1989, p. 12
- ↑ Berliner Zeitung of May 25, 1990, p. 16