The Fine Arts Editor of WDR, Wibke von Bonin, developed the German version of the series.
The series was produced by RM Arts, directed by Reiner E. Moritz, and narrated by Rudolf Jürgen Bartsch[1][2] and the distinctive title melody was composed by Wilhelm Dieter Siebert.
The German or the English version of the series was shown in West Germany, the US, England, the Netherlands, South Africa, Austria, Scandinavia and Japan.
[5] In 1986, Bonin received the Goldene Kamera award for her work[1] and video cassettes on seven German museums were produced (see section Literature).
[7] In 1994 ORF produced, in the form of a regular episode of 1000 Meisterwerke, an ironic special called Das Testbild.