Käthe Kollwitz Prize

Käthe Kollwitz Prize winner Willi Sitte (right), toasts with Werner Klemke (left), and Kurt Schwaen (centre) in 1968.

The Käthe Kollwitz Prize (German: Käthe-Kollwitz-Preis) is a German art award named after artist Käthe Kollwitz.

Established in 1960 by the then-Academy of Arts of the German Democratic Republic (nowadays the Academy of Arts, Berlin), the prize is awarded annually by a jury whose members are newly chosen each year to a visual artist living and working in Germany who is honored either for a single work or their complete body of work. Since 1992, the prize money (12,000 euros as of 2009) has been co-funded by the Kreissparkasse Köln, the owner of the Käthe Kollwitz Museum in Cologne. The Academy organises a parallel exhibition, accompanied by a catalog, for the laureate.[1]

Previous winners

References

  1. ↑ http://www.adk.de/en/academy/prizes-foundations/kaethe-kollwitz-prize.htm
  2. ↑ Art Review, "Bernard Frize wins the 2015 Käthe Kollwitz Prize". Accessed 10 May 2015
  3. ↑ "Käthe Kollwitz Prize 2016 – Edmund Kuppel". Berlin: Akademie der Künste. Retrieved 3 November 2016.
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