100 Great Paintings is a British television series broadcast in 1980 on BBC Two, devised by Edwin Mullins.http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/series/11652 13 January 2007 He chose 20 thematic groups, such as war, the Adoration, the language of colour, the hunt, and bathing, picking five paintings from each.100 Meisterwerke, Vol. 3, Foreword The selection ranges from 12th-century China through the 1950s, with an emphasis on European paintings. He deliberately avoided especially famous paintings, such as Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa or John Constable's The Hay Wain.100 Meisterwerke, Vol. 1, Introduction of the Publisher The series is available on VHS and DVD.http://www.films.com/id/2067/100_Great_Paintings.htm 13 January 2007
On the basis of the series, Mullins published the book Great Paintings: Fifty Masterpieces, Explored, Explained and Appreciated (1981), which contained the 50 paintings broadcast to that point. A German translation of Mullins' book appeared as 100 Meisterwerke in 1983. In 1985, a second volume came out, only in Germany, which discussed the remaining 50 paintings.
From 1980 through 1994, the West German broadcaster WDR produced a television series called 1000 Meisterwerke (originally named 100 Meisterwerke aus den großen Museen der Welt; "100 Masterworks from the Great Museums of the World"), which was broadcast by ARD, ORF and BR. In each of the 10-minute broadcasts, a single painting was presented and analyzed by an art historian. The Sunday evening broadcasts had five million viewers.
Selection of works presented The following is a complete list of the 100 Great Paintings. +ArtworkArtistTitleYearMediumDimensionsLocationNotesJosef AlbersHomage to the Square: Against Deep Blue1955Oil on masonite61 x 61 cmHarvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MassachusettsAlbrecht AltdorferThe Battle of Alexander at Issus1528–29Oil painting on panel158.4 cm × 120.3 cmAlte Pinakothek, MunichGiuseppe ArcimboldoThe Four Elements: Fire1566Oil on Limewood66.5 cm x 51 cmKunsthistorisches Museum, ViennaHendrick AvercampWinter Scene on a Canal100 Meisterwerke, Vol. 1, Chapter 10: Leben im Freien (Outdoor Life)1630Oil on panel49.9 cm x 95.6Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OhioFrancis BaconThree Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion1944Oil paint and plaster on fiber board94 cm x 74 cmTate Britain, London Josef Albers: Homage to the Square: Against Deep Blue (1955) Albrecht Altdorfer: The Battle of Alexander at Issus (1528–29)100 Meisterwerke, Vol. 1, Chapter 6: Krieg (War) Giuseppe Arcimboldo: Fire (1566) Hendrick Avercamp: Winter Scene on a Canal (c. 1630) Francis Bacon: Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion (1944) Hans Baldung Grien: Death and the Maiden (1517) Giacomo Balla: Abstract Speed + Sound (1913–14) Georg Baselitz: Allegory of Art Georg Baselitz: The Great Friends (1965) Max Beckmann: Actors – Triptych (1941–42) Giovanni Bellini: Prayer of Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane (c. 1465) Frits Van den Berghe: Sunday (1924) Umberto Boccioni: The Farewells (1911) Arnold Böcklin: Spring Awakening (1880)100 Meisterwerke, Vol. 3, Chapter 8: Kunsthaus, Zurich Pierre Bonnard: Backlit Nude (1908)100 Meisterwerke, Vol. 1, Chapter 1: Zauber des Lichts (The Magic of Light) Hieronymus Bosch: The Garden of Earthly Delights (c. 1500) Sandro Botticelli: The Birth of Venus (1478–1487)100 Meisterwerke, Vol. 1, Chapter 3: Anbetung (Adoration) François Boucher: The Blonde Odalisque (1751)100 Meisterwerke, Vol. 2, Chapter 3: Ruhender Akt (Reclining Nude) Georges Braque: The Female Musician (1917–1918) Pieter Brueghel the Elder: Landscape with the Fall of Icarus (c. 1550) Pieter Brueghel the Elder: The Triumph of Death Pieter Brueghel the Elder: The Hunters in the Snow (Return of the Hunters) (1565)100 Meisterwerke, Vol. 1, Chapter 5: Jagd (The Hunt) Gustave Caillebotte: Parisian Street, Rainy Day (1877) Antonio Canaletto: Return of the Bucintoro to the Molo on Ascension Day (1734) Caravaggio: Supper at Emmaus (1596–1598) Caravaggio: The Lute Player (c. 1596) Vittore Carpaccio: Miracle of the Relic of the Cross at the Ponte di Rialto (1494)100 Meisterwerke, Vol. 2, Chapter 10: Erzählungen (Stories) Annibale Carracci: River Landscape (c. 1595) Mary Cassatt: The Child's Bath (c. 1891) Paul Cézanne: Mont Sainte-Victoire (1897)100 Meisterwerke, Vol. 1, Chapter 4: Die Elemente (The Elements) Paul Cézanne: Bathers (c. 1900) Marc Chagall: I and the Village (1911) Jean Siméon Chardin: The Young Schoolmistress (before 1740) Chinese: Clear Weather in the Valley (12th century) John Constable: Salisbury Cathedral (1823) Lovis Corinth: Self-portrait in Front of the Easel (1914) Antonio da Correggio: Leda and the Swan (c. 1530)100 Meisterwerke, Vol. 2, Chapter 4: Liebe (Love) Gustave Courbet: Breakfast at the Hunt (1858) Lucas Cranach the Elder: Adam and Eve in Paradise (1531)100 Meisterwerke, Vol. 4, Chapter 1: Gemäldegalerie Berlin (West) SMPK Salvador Dalí: The Burning Giraffe (1936) Honoré Daumier: Ecce Homo (c. 1849–1852) Jacques-Louis David: The Lictors Bring to Brutus the Bodies of His Sons (1789)100 Meisterwerke, Vol. 2, Chapter 5: Gram (Grief) Edgar Degas: Woman in a Tub (1886) Eugène Delacroix: The Massacre at Chios (1824) Robert Delaunay: Eiffel Tower, Champs de Mars (1911) Sonia Delaunay-Terk: Electric Prisms (1914)100 Meisterwerke, Vol. 3, Chapter 9: Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris Niklaus Manuel Deutsch: Pyramus and Thisbe (after 1523) Otto Dix: Flanders (1934–1936)100 Meisterwerke, Vol. 3, Chapter 1: Nationalgalerie, Berlin (West) Jean Dubuffet: Prosperous country (1944) Duccio: Christ Healing a Blind Man (1308–1310) Marcel Duchamp: Sad Young Man in a Train (1911) Albrecht Dürer: Picture of a Young Venetian Woman (1505) Albrecht Dürer: Self-portrait (1498)100 Meisterwerke, Vol. 2, Chapter 1: Selbstporträts (Self-portraits) Anthony van Dyck: Samson and Delilah (c. 1628–1630) Thomas Eakins: Max Schmitt in a Single Scull (1871) James Ensor: Self-portrait with Masks (1899) Max Ernst: The Attirement of the Bride (1939) Jan van Eyck: The Madonna of the Chancellor Rolin (1434) Lyonel Feininger: Bird Cloud (1926) Lucio Fontana: Concetto Spaziale (1957) Piero della Francesca: Resurrection of Christ (c. 1460) Piero della Francesca: The Nativity (around 1480)100 Meisterwerke, Vol. 2, Chapter 6: Musik (Music) Helen Frankenthaler: Mountains and Sea (1952)100 Meisterwerke, Vol. 4, Chapter 8: National Gallery of Art, Washington Caspar David Friedrich: The Sea of Ice (1822–1824) Henry Fuseli: Titania Caressing Bottom with a Donkey's Head (1793) Thomas Gainsborough: Mr and Mrs Andrews (1748–1749) Paul Gauguin: Mahana no atua (Day of the God) (1894)100 Meisterwerke, Vol. 1, Chapter 2: Die Sprache der Farbe (The Language of Color) Théodore Géricault: The Raft of the Medusa (1819)100 Meisterwerke, Vol. 4, Chapter 2: Musée National du Louvre, Paris Alberto Giacometti: Portrait of Jean Genet (1955) Giorgione: Sleeping Venus (1508) Giorgione or Titian: Pastoral Concert (c. 1510) Giotto: The Mourning of Christ (c. 1304–1306) Hugo van der Goes: Adoration of the Kings (around 1470) Vincent van Gogh: Self-portrait (1889) Vincent van Gogh: Café Terrace at Night (1888)100 Meisterwerke, Vol. 1, Chapter 7: Städte (Cities) Arshile Gorky: One Year the Milkweed (1944) Francisco de Goya: The Colossus (attribution uncertain) Francisco de Goya: The Naked Maja (c. 1800) Francisco de Goya: Carnival Scene (1793) Benozzo Gozzoli: The Procession of the Magi (c. 1460) Gotthard Graubner: Black Skin (1969) El Greco: The Burial of the Count of Orgaz (1586) El Greco: View of Toledo (1600–1610) Juan Gris: The Breakfast Table (1915) George Grosz: Untitled (1920)100 Meisterwerke, Video, Part 1 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen Düsseldorf Matthias Grünewald: Crucifixion from the Isenheim Altarpiece (1515) Erich Heckel: Convalescing Woman (1912–1913)100 Meisterwerke, Vol. 4, Chapter 9: Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge Hannah Höch: Cut with the Kitchen Knife (1919–1920)100 Meisterwerke, Video, Part 2 Staatliche Museen, Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Nationalgalerie Berlin Ferdinand Hodler: Youth Admired by the Woman (1903) Hans Holbein the Younger: Portrait of the Artist's Family (Holbein) (1528) Winslow Homer: The Fox Hunt (1893) Edward Hopper: Nighthawks (1942)100 Meisterwerke, Vol. 4, Chapter 10: Art Institute of Chicago William Holman Hunt: The Hireling Shepherd (1851) Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres: The Turkish Bath (1862) Johannes Itten: The Encounter (1916) Geertgen tot Sint Jans: John the Baptist in the Wilderness (c. 1485–1490)100 Meisterwerke, Video, Part 5 Staatliche Museen, Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Gemäldegalerie Berlin-Dahlem Alexej von Jawlensky: Meditation (1918) Jasper Johns: Flag (1954–1955) Wassily Kandinsky: Improvisation 6 (1910) Kangra School: Radha and Krishna in the Garden (c. 1780) Wilhelm von Kaulbach: Titus Destroying Jerusalem (1846)100 Meisterwerke, Video, Part 7 Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Neue Pinakothek Munich100 Meisterwerke, Vol. 3, Chapter 2: Neue Pinakothek, Munich Fernand Khnopff: Caress of the Sphinx (1896) Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: Five Women on the Street (1913) Konrad Klapheck: The War (1965) Paul Klee: Bird Garden (1924)100 Meisterwerke, Vol. 2, Chapter 7: Gärten (Gardens) Franz Kline: C & O (1958) Wilhelm von Kobell: The Siege of Kosel (1808) Oskar Kokoschka: The Bride of the Wind (1914) Jan Kupecky: Portrait of the Miniaturist Karl Bruni (1709) Fernand Léger: The Wedding (1911) Wilhelm Leibl: Three Women in Church (1878–1882) Franz von Lenbach: Franz von Lenbach with Wife and Daughters (1903)100 Meisterwerke, Video, Part 3 Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus München100 Meisterwerke, Vol. 3, Chapter 3: Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, München Roy Lichtenstein: Girl with Hair Band (1965) Max Liebermann: Women Mending Nets (1887–1889)100 Meisterwerke, Video, Part 6 Hamburger Kunsthalle Richard Lindner: The Meeting (1953) Stefan Lochner: Madonna of the Rose Bower (c. 1448) Lorenzo Lotto: The Sleeping Child Jesus with the Madonna, Saint Joseph and Saint Catherine of Alexandria (c. 1533) Morris Louis: Beta-Kappa (1961) August Macke: Woman with Umbrella in Front of a Hat Shop (1914) René Magritte: The Empire of Light (1954) Kazimir Malevich: An Englishman in Moscow (1914) Édouard Manet: Olympia (1863) Andrea Mantegna: The Crucifixion (1457–1460) Franz Marc: The Tiger (1912) Hans von Marées: Golden Age (1879–1885) Reginald Marsh: Twenty Cent Movie (1936) Masaccio: The Tribute Money (c. 1425) Jan Matsys: Flora (1559) Henri Matisse: Bather at the River (1916–1917) Henri Matisse: Blue Nude (1907) William McTaggart: The Storm (1890)100 Meisterwerke, Vol. 4, Chapter 3: National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh Hans Memling: Saint John Altarpiece (before 1494)100 Meisterwerke, Vol. 4, Chapter 4: Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Adolph von Menzel: The Flute Concert (1850–1852) Jean Metzinger: The Racing Cyclist (1914) John Everett Millais: Ophelia (1851–1852)100 Meisterwerke, Vol. 3, Chapter 10: Tate Gallery, London Joan Miró: Dutch Interior I (1928) László Moholy-Nagy: LIS (1922) Claude Monet: Women in the Garden (1866) Piet Mondrian: Apple Tree in Bloom (1912) Edvard Munch: Ashes (1894–95) Edvard Munch: Four Girls on the Bridge (1905) Gabriele Münter: Village Street in Winter (1911) Bartolomé Esteban Murillo: Rest on the Flight into Egypt (c.1665) Louis or Antoine Le Nain: Peasant Family in an Interior (1640–1645) Paul Nash: Dream Landscape (1936–1938) Ernst Wilhelm Nay: Grauzug (1960)100 Meisterwerke, Vol. 4, Chapter 5: Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna Mikhail Nesterov: The Great Consecration (1897–98) Emil Nolde: Saint Mary of Egypt (1912) Georgia O'Keeffe: White Calico Flower (1931) Richard Oelze: Daily Stress (1934)100 Meisterwerke, Vol. 3, Chapter 4: Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf Victor Pasmore: Inland Coastal Landscape (1950)