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The documentary film follows Barbora Kysilkova, a talented Hyperrealism artist, forming a friendship with Karl-Bertil Nordland, a man convicted of stealing her work from an Oslo art gallery, spanning a period of three years.
When Czech painter Barbora Kysilkova learnt two of her large oil paintings had been stolen from a Norwegian gallery in an overnight break-in her reaction was not anger. Rather she was both intrigued and confused.
After two of her most prized paintings were stolen, Czech artist Barbora Kysilkova came face-to-face with thief Karl-Bertil Nordland in a courtroom. Rather than reprimand Nordland...
A still from The Painter and the Thief shows Czech artist Barbora Kysilkova, right, painting a portrait of Karl-Bertil Nordland, left, one of the men who broke into a gallery and stole her...
I met with Norwegian director Benjamin Ree (Magnus) on Thursday, January 23, 2020, at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, to discuss The Painter and the Thief (which I also reviewed), his documentary profile of the odd and moving relationship that developed between Czech painter Barbora Kysilkova and K
Benjamin Ree chronicles the relationship between Barbora Kysilkova, a Czech naturalist painter living in the city, and Karl-Bertil Nordland, the perpetrator of the crime. It...
BARBORA KYSILKOVÁ (*1983) is a Czech artist working in Berlin. When looking for the best painting techniques to express what she wanted to say, the artist began to focus on figurative oil painting with a deep conviction, seeking inspiration in the reality she did not want to move away from.
