A method for manufacturing a micro-optic representation arrangement having a micro-optic viewing arrangement with a plurality of microfocusing elements which have a base body and a supplementary body, have a specified target focal length and are arranged in a viewing grid, and a microstructure arrangement with a plurality of microstructure elements that form a microstructure grid, wherein the microstructure arrangement can be viewed through the micro-optic viewing arrangement, wherein the method comprises the following steps: - manufacturing a grid-shaped arrangement of base bodies in the form of microfocusing-element preforms, wherein the manufacturing of the grid-shaped arrangement of base bodies is effected - by embossing the base bodies into a thermoplastic foil or into a foil coated with a radiation-curing lacquer with following irradiation, or - by producing cylindrical base-body preforms of a photoresist material and subsequently melting the base-body preforms into spherical base bodies, - combining the grid-shaped arrangement of base bodies with the microstructure arrangement, and - forming supplementary bodies on the base-body grid, or at least on a partial region of the base-body grid, which partial region extends over several base bodies, by coating the base-body grid with at least one coating, wherein the supplementary bodies supplement the base bodies into the microfocusing elements having the specified target focal length, so that the microfocusing elements focus in the plane of the microstructure arrangement, wherein each base body has a curved surface with a vertex on the top and a basis at the bottom, wherein all the points on the surface are assigned local radii of curvature that can be identical or different and wherein the at least one coating supplements the base bodies such that the microfocusing elements have at least in the region of their vertex larger local radii of curvature than the base bodies. - manufacturing a grid-shaped arrangement of base bodies in the form of microfocusing-element preforms, wherein the manufacturing of the grid-shaped arrangement of base bodies is effected - by embossing the base bodies into a thermoplastic foil or into a foil coated with a radiation-curing lacquer with following irradiation, or - by producing cylindrical base-body preforms of a photoresist material and subsequently melting the base-body preforms into spherical base bodies, - by embossing the base bodies into a thermoplastic foil or into a foil coated with a radiation-curing lacquer with following irradiation, or - by producing cylindrical base-body preforms of a photoresist material and subsequently melting the base-body preforms into spherical base bodies, - combining the grid-shaped arrangement of base bodies with the microstructure arrangement, and - forming supplementary bodies on the base-body grid, or at least on a partial region of the base-body grid, which partial region extends over several base bodies, by coating the base-body grid with at least one coating, wherein the supplementary bodies supplement the base bodies into the microfocusing elements having the specified target focal length, so that the microfocusing elements focus in the plane of the microstructure arrangement,