Grand Austrian State Prize Explained

The Grand Austrian State Prize is a decoration given annually by Austria to an artist for exceptional work.[1] The recipient must be an Austrian citizen with a permanent residence in Austria.

It was originally created in 1950 by then education minister Felix Hurdes. The prize is given according to the recommendation by the Austrian Art Senate without a set rotation schedule for literature, music, visual art, or architecture. Since 2003 it has been endowed with a 30,000 euro prize. In the areas of film and artistic photography, the prize is awarded according to a jury and not the Art Senate.

Since 1971, the prize has been given to only one person a year, instead of sometimes given to multiple people in different categories.

Recipients

Literature

1950 Josef Leitgeb1951 Felix Braun1952 Martina Wied
1953 Rudolf Henz,
Rudolf Kassner
1954 Max Mell1955 Franz Theodor Csokor
1956 Franz Nabl1957 Heimito von Doderer,
Franz Karl Ginzkey
1958 Imma von Bodmershof
1959 Carl Zuckmayer1961 Albert Paris Gütersloh,
Alexander Lernet-Holenia
1962 George Saiko
1963 Kurt Frieberger1964 Johannes Urzidil1966 Fritz Hochwälder
1967 Elias Canetti1968 Ingeborg Bachmann,
Marlen Haushofer
1969 Christine Busta
1970 Christine Lavant1972 Friedrich Heer1974 Hans Carl Artmann
1977 Manès Sperber1979 Friedrich Torberg1982 Christin Karl
1984 Ernst Jandl1987 Peter Handke1989 Oswald Wiener
1991 Gerhard Rühm1994 Wolfgang Bauer1995 Ilse Aichinger
1998 Andreas Okopenko2001 Gert Jonke2007 Josef Winkler
2012 Peter Waterhouse2018 Florjan Lipuš

Music

1950 Joseph Marx1951 Egon Kornauth1953 Paul Angerer,
Johann Nepomuk David
1955 Josef Matthias Hauer1956 Hans Erich Apostel,
1957 Hans Gál
1959 Theodor Berger,
Alfred Uhl
1961 Egon Wellesz1963 Ernst Krenek
1965 Gottfried von Einem1966 Hanns Jelinek1967 Karl Schiske
1968 Erich Marckhl1969 Anton Heiller1970 Marcel Rubin
1976 Cesar Bresgen1981 Roman Haubenstock-Ramati1986 Friedrich Cerha
1990 György Ligeti1992 Kurt Schwertsik2002 Heinz Karl Gruber[2]
2006 Georg Friedrich Haas2010 Olga Neuwirth2014 Beat Furrer
2019 Thomas Larcher

Visual Art

1951 Alfred Kubin1952 Albert Paris Gütersloh1954 Herbert Boeckl
1955 Oskar Kokoschka,
Fritz Wotruba
1956 Alfred Wickenburg1957 Karl Sterrer
1958 Toni Schneider-Manzell1960 Max Weiler,
Ferdinand Kitt
1962 Josef Dobrowsky
1963 Arnold Jakob Clementschitsch1965 Sergius Pauser1966 Hans Fronius
1968 Kurt Moldovan1969 Rudolf Hoflehner1973 Joannis Avramidis
1978 Arnulf Rainer1980 Friedensreich Hundertwasser1985 Walter Pichler
1988 Maria Lassnig1993 Bruno Gironcoli1996 Günter Brus
1997 Christian Ludwig Attersee2005 Hermann Nitsch[3]
2008 Karl Prantl2009 Brigitte Kowanz
2017 Renate Bertlmann

Architecture

1950 Josef Hoffmann1953 Clemens Holzmeister1954 Max Fellerer
1958 Erich Boltenstern1962 Roland Rainer1965 Josef Frank
1967 Franz Schuster1971 Gustav Peichl1975 Karl Schwanzer
1983 Hans Hollein1999 Coop Himmelb(l)au -
Wolf D. Prix, Helmut Swiczinsky
2000 Wilhelm Holzbauer
2004 Günther Domenig2011 Heinz Tesar2015 Elke Delugan-Meissl and Roman Delugan
2020 Laurids Ortner and Manfred Ortner

Artistic Photography

1991 Inge Morath-Miller1994 Franz Hubmann1997 Erich Lessing
2001 Harry Weber2005 Friedl Kubelka-Bondy2009 Manfred Willmann
2013 Peter Dressler2016 Margherita Spiluttini2023 Aglaia Konrad

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Großer Österreichischer Staatspreis . Bundesministerium für Kunst, Kultur, öffentlichen Dienst und Sport – Startseite . de . 12 November 2020 . 23 November 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20211123021640/https://www.bmkoes.gv.at/Kunst-und-Kultur/preise/grosser-oesterreichischer-staatspreis.html . dead .
  2. Web site: "Heinz Karl Gruber humorvoller, eigenwilliger, mitteleuropäischer Weltbürger und Eklektiker mit Bodenhaftung und Tiefgang" . OTS.at . 5 March 2003 . de . 12 November 2021.
  3. Web site: Großer Österreichischer Staatspreis 2005 an Hermann Nitsch . OTS.at . 5 October 2005 . de . 12 November 2021.