100 Great Paintings  

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100 Masterpieces was a TV series created by Edwin Mullins for BBC in 1980, where he also acted as moderator. He chose 20 theme groups like war, adoration, language of color, hunt, bathing, etc., picking five paintings from each. The collection reaches from 12th century China through 1950s with an emphasis on European paintings. He deliberately avoided the greatest paintings, such as Leonardo Da Vinci's Mona Lisa or John Constable's The Haywain. The sequel is available on VHS or on DVD.

1980-1994 WDR produced a series called "1000 Meisterwerke" which was broadcast in Germany.

The English or German sequel was broadcast in USA, England, Netherlands, South Africa, Austria, Scandinavia and Japan.

Great Paintings

In 1981 Mullins published the book, Great Paintings: Fifty Masterpieces, Explored, Explained and Appreciated, based on the sequel, which covered half of the themes.

Presented Pieces (Selection)

• Josef Albers: Honoration of the square: in deep blue (1955)
• Albrecht Altdorfer: The Alexander battle (1528-29)
• Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1527-1593): The Fire
• Hendrick Avercamp: Winter (around 1630)
• Francis Bacon: Three Studies for a Crucifixion (1944)
• Hans Baldung Grien: Death and the Maiden (1517)
• Giacomo Balla: Abstract speed + noise (1913-14)
• Georg Baselitz (1938-): Allegory of art
• Georg Baselitz: The big friends (1965)
• Max Beckmann: Actors - triptych (1941-42)
• Giovanni Bellini: Prayer of Christ in the garden of Gethsemane (around 1465)
• Frits van den Berghe (1883-1939): Sunday
• Umberto Boccioni: Farewell (1911)
• Arnold Böcklin: Spring awakening (1880)
• Pierre Bonnard: Akt im Gegenlicht (1908)[22]
• Hieronymus Bosch: The Garden of Delights (around 1500)
• Sandro Botticelli: The Birth of Venus (1478-1487)
• François Boucher: Marie-Louise O'Murphey (1751)
• Georges Braque: The female musician (1917-1918)
• Pieter Brueghel the elder: The Fall of Icarus (around 1550)
• Pieter Brueghel the elder: The triumph of death
• Pieter Brueghel the elder: Return of the hunters (1565)
• Gustave Caillebotte: Parisian street scene in rain (1877)
• Antonio Canaletto: The Bacino on ascension day (1734)
• Caravaggio: Christus in Emmaus (1596-1598)
• Caravaggio: Young lute player
• Vittore Carpaccio: The wonder of the cross (1494)
• Annibale Carracci: River landscape with fort and bridge (around 1595)
• Mary Cassatt: The bath (around 1891)
• Paul Cézanne: La Montagne Sainte-Victoire (1897)
• Paul Cézanne: The bathers (around 1900)
• Marc Chagall: I and the village (1911)
• Jean Siméon Chardin: The teacher (before 1740)
• China: Clear weather in the valley (12th century)
• John Constable: Salisbury Cathedral (1823)
• Lovis Corinth: Self-portait in front of the easel (1914)
• Correggio: Leda and the Swan (around 1530)
• Gustave Courbet: Breakfast at the hunt (1858)
• Lucas Cranach the elder: Adam and Eve in Paradise (1531)
• Salvador Dali: The burning giraffe (1936)
• Honoré Daumier: Ecce Homo (around 1849-1852)
• Jacques-Louis David: Liktors bring dead sons to Brutus (1789)
• Edgar Degas: The woman in the tub (1886)
• Eugène Delacroix: The massacre of Chios (1824)
• Robert Delaunay: Eiffel Tower, Champs de Mars (1911)
• Sonia Delaunay-Terk: Elektric prisms (1914)
• Niklaus Manuel Deutsch: Pyramus and Thisbe (after 1523)
• Otto Dix: Flanders (1934-1936)
• Jean Dubuffet: Prosperous country (1944)
• Duccio: Christ heals a blind (1308-1310)
• Marcel Duchamp: Sad young man in a train (1911)
• Albrecht Dürer: Picture of a young Venice woman
• Albrecht Dürer: Self-portait (1498)
• Anthonis van Dyck: Simson and Delila (around 1628-1630)
• Thomas Eakins: Max Schmitt in a Single Scull (1871)
• James Ensor: Self-portrait with masks (1899)
• Max Ernst: The dressing 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 (around 1460)
• Piero della Francesca: The Birth of Christ (around 1480)
• Helen Frankenthaler: Mountains and a lake (1952)
• Caspar David Friedrich: Polar Sea (1822-1824)
• Johann Heinrich Füssli: Titania fonds Zettel with donkey head (1793)
• Thomas Gainsborough: Robert Andrews and his wife (1748-1749)
• Paul Gauguin: Sunday (1894)
• Théodore Géricault: The float of Medusa (1819)
• Alberto Giacometti: Portrait of Jean Genet (1955)
• Giorgione: Resting Venus (1508)
• Giorgione: rural concert (around 1510)
• Giotto: Cry for Christ (around 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)
• Arshile Gorky: In the year of spurge (1944)
• Francisco Goya: Colossus
• Francisco Goya: The naked Maja (around 1800)
• Francisco Goya: Carnival scene (1793)
• Benozzo Gozzoli: The Procession of the Holy Three Kings (around 1460)
• Gotthard Graubner: Black skin (1969)
• El Greco: The burial of Count Orgaz (1586)
• El Greco: View of Toledo (1600-1610)
• Juan Gris: The breakfast table (1915)
• George Grosz: Without title (1920)
• Matthias Grünewald: Crucifixion from the Isenheim Altar (1515)
• Erich Heckel: Convalescing woman (1912-1913)
• Hannah Höch: Cut with the kitchen knife (1919-1920)
• Ferdinand Hodler: Youngling, adored by the dame (1903)
• Hans Holbein the younger: Portrait of Mrs. Holbein with the children Katharina and Philipp (1528)
• Winslow Homer: The fox hunt (1893)
• Edward Hopper: Reveler (1942)
• 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 solitude (around 1485-1490)
• Alexej von Jawlensky: Meditation (1918)
• Jasper Johns: Flag (1954-1955)
• Wassily Kandinsky: Improvisation 6 (1910)
• Kangra-School: Radha and Krishna in the Garden (around 1780)
• Wilhelm von Kaulbach: Titus Destroying Jerusalem (1846)
• Fernand Khnopff: Nuzzles
• Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: Five women on the street (1913)
• Konrad Klapheck: The war (1965)
• Paul Klee: Bird garden (1924)
• Franz Kline: C & O (1958)
• Wilhelm von Kobell: The Siege of Kosel (1808)
• Oskar Kokoschka: The wind bride (1914)
• Jan Kupecky: Portrait of the midget painter Karl Bruni (1709)
• Fernand Léger: The wedding (1911)
• Wilhelm Leibl: Three women in a church (1878-1882)
• Franz von Lenbach: Franz of Lenbach with wife and daughters (1903)
• Roy Lichtenstein: Girl with hair band (1965)
• Max Liebermann: Die Netzflickerinnen (1887-1889)[44][45]
• Richard Lindner: Das Treffen (1953)
• Stefan Lochner: Die Muttergottes in der Rosenlaube (around 1448)[52][53]
• Lorenzo Lotto: Maria mit dem Kinde und den Heiligen Katharina und Jakobus dem Älteren (around 1533)[42]
• Morris Louis: Beta Kappa (1961)[43]
• August Macke: Der Hutladen (1914)[48]
• René Magritte: Das Reich der Lichter (1954)[22]
• Édouard Manet: Olympia (1863)[24]
• Andrea Mantegna: The Crucifixion of Christ (1457-1460)[47]
• Franz Marc: The Tiger (1912)[50][51]
• Hans von Marées: Golden Age (1879-1885)[1][7]
• Reginald Marsh: Zweigroschen-Kino
• Masaccio: Der Zinsgroschen (around 1425)[30]
• Jan Massys: Flora (1559)[44]
• Henri Matisse: Badende am Fluß (1916-1917)[32]
• Henri Matisse: Blauer Akt (1907)[24]
• William McTaggart: The Storm (1890)[54]
• Hans Memling: Johannes-Altärchen (before 1494)[42]
• Adolph von Menzel: The Flute Concert (1850-1852)[38][39]
• Jean Metzinger: Der Radrennfahrer (1914)[17]
• John Everett Millais: Ophelia (1851-1852)[55]
• Joan Miró: Dutch Interior I (1928)[20]
• László Moholy-Nagy: LIS (1922)[21]
• Claude Monet: Frauen im Garten (1867)[19]
• Piet Mondrian: Blühender Apfelbaum (1912)[19]
• Edvard Munch: Asche
• Edvard Munch: Vier Mädchen auf der Brücke (1905)[52][53]
• Gabriele Münter: Dorfstraße im Winter (1911)[50][51]
• Bartholomeo Murillo: The Flight to Egypt
• Louis or Antoine Le Nain: Bauernfamilie (1640-1645)[47]
• Paul Nash: Traumlandschaft (1936-1938)[55]
• Ernst Wilhelm Nay: Grauzug (1960)[18]
• Michail Wassiljewitsch Nesterow: Die große Weihe
• Emil Nolde: Die Heilige Maria Ägyptiaca (1912)[45]
• Georgia O’Keeffe: Die weiße Kattunblume
• Richard Oelze: Tägliche Drangsale (1934)[49][8]
• Victor Pasmore: Innere Küstenlandschaft (1950)[55]
• Joachim Patinier: The Baptism of Christ (around 1515)[42]
• Constant Permeke: Die Verlobten
• Francis Picabia: Sehr seltenes Bild auf der Erde (1915)[17]
• Pablo Picasso: Guernica (1937)[13]
• Pablo Picasso: La Vie (1903-1904)[40]
• Jackson Pollock: Herbst Rhythmus (1950)[46]
• Nicolas Poussin: Die Anbetung des Goldenen Kalbes (1635)[46]
• Nicolas Poussin: Ruhende Venus mit Amor (1630)[34]
• Henry Raeburn: Rev. Robert Walker beim Schlittschuhlaufen (1784)[54]
• Raffael: Madonna in Green (1506)[33]
• Arnulf Rainer: Selbstporträt übermalt (1962-1963)[18]
• Rembrandt: The Jewish Bride (1666)[40]
• Rembrandt: Selbstbildnis als Paulus (1661)[41]
• Auguste Renoir: Das Frühstück der Ruderer (1880)[14]
• Ilja Repin: Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks to Sultan Mehmed IV of Turkey
• Sebastiano Ricci: Bathseba im Bade (around 1720)[32]
• Hyacinthe Rigaud: Bildnis Ludwig XIV. (1701)[23]
• Hubert Robert: Entwurf für die Einrichtung der Großen Galerie des Louvre (1796)[47]
• Giulio Romano: Die Jungfrau mit dem Kind und dem Johannesknaben (around 1518)[54]
• Mark Rothko: Red, Brown and Black (1958)[22]
• Carl Rottmann: Aus dem Griechenland-Zyklus (1838-1850)[1][7]
• Henri Rousseau: The Sleeping Gypsy (1897)[25]
• Peter Paul Rubens: Landschaft mit Schloß Steen (around 1635-1637)[26]
• Peter Paul Rubens: Mercury and Argus (1638)[30]
• Jacob Izaaksoon van Ruisdael: Der große Wald (around 1655-1660)[42]
• Philipp Otto Runge: The Hülsenbeck Children (1805-1806)[44][45]
• Pieter Saenredam: Interior of Grote Kerk in Haarlem (1648)[54]
• Egon Schiele: Mother with Two Children (1915-1917)[33]
• Karl Friedrich Schinkel: Medieval City on a River (1815)[38][39]
• Oskar Schlemmer: Gruppe am Geländer I (1931)[49][8]
• Kurt Schwitters: Merzbild 25A, Das Sternenbild (1920)[49][8]
• Georges Seurat: Sonntagnachmittag auf der Ile de la Grande Jatte (1884-1886)[14]
• Luca Signorelli: Bildnis eines älteren Mannes (around 1500)[35][36]
• Tawaraya Sōtatsu: Wellen von Matsushima (around 1630)[31]
• Stanley Spencer: The Resurrection, Cookham (1924-1927)[55]
• Carl Spitzweg: The Poor Poet (1839)[38][39]
• George Stubbs: Die Grosvenor-Jagd (1762)[27]
• Franz von Stuck: Salome (1906)[50][51]
• Yves Tanguy: Um vier Uhr im Sommer, die Hoffnung (1929)[37]
• Giovanni Battista Tiepolo: The Triumph of Virtue and Magnanimity over Uncertainty (around 1745)[23]
• Jacopo Tintoretto: Ariadne, Bacchus and Venus (after 1570)[40]
• Titian: The Bacchanal
• Titian: Diana und Callisto (1556-1559)[27]
• Georges de la Tour: The Dream of St. Joseph (around 1640)[40]
• Georges de la Tour: The Fortuneteller (around 1620-1621)[30]
• William Turner: The Burning of the Houses of Parliament (1834-1835)[31]
• William Turner: Venedig - La Dogana und Santa Maria della Salute (1843)[48]
• Paolo Uccello: The Battle of San Romano (around 1456)[13]
• Emilio Vedova: Bild der Zeit — Sperre (1951)[17]
• Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez: Las Meninas
• Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez: Prince Balthasar Carlos (1635)[33]
• Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez: Die Übergabe von Breda (1634)[13]
• Jan Vermeer: The Artist in his Atelier (around 1670)[46]
• Jan Vermeer: Blick auf Delft (around 1660)[48]
• Paolo Veronese: The Wedding of Kana (1562-1563)[47]
• Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun: The Artist with her Daughters (1789)[41]
• Leonardo da Vinci: Anna Selbdritt (around 1510)[33]
• Wolf Vostell: Miss America (1968)[52][53]
• Andy Warhol: Texan, Portrait of Robert Rauschenberg (1963)[52][53]
• Antoine Watteau: Embarking for Kythera (1717)[29]
• Rogier van der Weyden: Johannes-Altar (after 1450)[35][36]
• James McNeill Whistler: Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket (1877)[31]
• David Wilkie: William Bethune with Wife and Daughter (1804)[54]
• Fritz Winter: Composition in Blue (1953)[12]
• Konrad Witz: Die Ritter Abisai, Sibbechai und Benaja bringen dem König David Wasser (around 1435)[16]
• Grant Wood: American Gothic (1930)[28]
• Joseph Wright of Derby: Das Experiment mit dem Vogel in der Luftpumpe (1767-1768)[55]
• Andrew Wyeth: Christina's World (1948)[20]
• Francisco de Zurbarán: Still life: Lemons, Oranges and a Rose (1633)

Literature

This article is a translation of the German 1000 Meisterwerke.

• Great Paintings: Fifty Masterpieces, Explored, Explained and Appreciated, Publ. Edwin Mullins, New York, St. Martin's Press, © BBC, Hardcover, 344 pp., 1981, ISBN 0-312-34636-0