Marcus Reichert is a painter and a poet who has also worked in film. His film and dramatic works are held in the archives of the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. His Crucifixion paintings have been described by Richard Harries, the Bish-op of Oxford, as being among the most disturbing painted in the 20th Century. Marcus Reichert lives and works in the south of France.