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Oliver Schnyder performs the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack for the film Albert Anker: Malstunden bei Raffael ("Painting Lessons with Raphael"), featuring the piano music of Edvard Grieg. With Heinz Bütler's Malstunden bei Raffael, for the first time, a film explores the work, thought and life of the great Swiss painter far beyond the well-known and often clichéd. The starting point of the journey through time to Albert Anker (1831-1910) is a room of wonders. The studio in the painter's farmhouse in the Seeland village of Ins is one of the very few artists' studios from the 19th century that has been preserved in its original condition - a spectacular time capsule, "curated" by Anker himself with pictures, photos, books, documents, oddities, Letters and objects of picturesque and everyday use. And if there was anyone who could open up Anker's world for this film in a personal, touching, humorous and knowledgeable way, it is the musician and author Endo Anaconda (1955-2022). In the film, it almost seems as if you are listening to Albert Anker himself through Endo's voice, telling us about his life as an artist. The pianist Oliver Schnyder plays the film's soundtrack on the concert grand, but doesn't shy away from the out-of-tune family piano in the Anker house. The art historian Nina Zimmer gets to the bottom of Anker's art and wants to find out: Where is Anker really good? And finally, this moving and multi-layered film has introduced us to an Albert Anker who not only belongs in the museum, but also in our hearts.