The Master Game

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At the Vienna Art Academy in 1994, an unidentified person painted over 27 works by Austrian painter Arnulf Rainer. Rainer had become world-famous for his abstract art and, in particular, for his over-layering of photographs and overpainting of his own and other artists’ works. But who painted over the “overpainter”? Speculation rages: Did he attack his works himself? A year later, an unsigned letter surfaces claiming responsibility for the act directed against Rainer – and modern art in general – and accusing the artist of being complicit with “destructive modernism.” At the same time, Austria is shaken by a series of mail bombs by the Bajuwarian Liberation Army, in response to the supposed threat to Austria’s “German identity.” Are there connections between the overpainting event and the mail bombs? Or is this all just a game? A dream? Or perhaps a hallucination?
Release Date:	Oct 30, 1998
Director:	Lutz Dammbeck
Writer:	Lutz Dammbeck
Genres:	Documentary
Keywords	neo-nazism, conspiracy theory, art
Production Companies	Lutz Dammbeck Filmproduktion
Box Office	Revenue: $0 Budget: $0
Updates	Updated: Feb 04, 2025 Entered: May 01, 2024