1000 Meisterwerke was a German

Germany

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 art series. It was the German version of the British 100 Great Paintings

100 Great Paintings

100 Great Paintings was a British television series recorded in 1980 by Edwin Mullins for BBC Two, in which he also acted as moderator. He chose 20 thematic groups, such as war, the Adoration, the language of color, the hunt, and bathing, picking five paintings from each. The selection ranges from...

. From 1980 through 1994, the German broadcaster WDR produced the series (originally named 100 Meisterwerke aus den großen Museen der Welt; "100 Masterworks from the Great Museums of the World"), which was broadcast by ARD

ARD (broadcaster)

ARD is a joint organization of Germany's regional public-service broadcasters...

, ORF

ORF

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 and BR

Bayerischer Rundfunk

Bayerischer Rundfunk [Bavarian Broadcasting] is the public broadcasting authority for the German Freistaat of Bavaria, with its main offices located in Munich. BR is a member of ARD.- Legal foundation :...

. 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.