Käthe Kollwitz Prize Explained

The Käthe Kollwitz Prize (German: link=no|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 Cologne, 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

• 1960:
• 1961: Arno Mohr
• 1962:
• 1964:
• 1965:
• 1966:
• 1967: Otto Nagel
• 1968: Willi Sitte
• 1969:
• 1970:
• 1971: Curt Querner
• 1972: Herbert Sandberg
• 1973:
• 1974: Wieland Förster
• 1975: Werner Stötzer
• 1976: Harald Metzkes
• 1977:
• 1978: Dieter Goltzsche
• 1979:
• 1980: Werner Tübke
• 1981: Elizabeth Shaw
• 1982:
• 1983: Sabina Grzimek
• 1984:
• 1985:
• 1986:
• 1987: Max Uhlig
• 1988: Christa Sammler
• 1989:
• 1990:
• 1991:
• 1992:
• 1993:
• 1994: Karla Woisnitza
• 1995: Micha Ullman
• 1996: Martin Kippenberger
• 1997: Astrid Klein
• 1998: Miriam Cahn
• 1999: Mark Lammert
• 2000: Svetlana Kopystiansky
• 2001:
• 2002:
• 2003:
• 2004: Peter Weibel
• 2005:
• 2006: Thomas Eller
• 2007: Hede Bühl
• 2008:
• 2009: Ulrike Grossarth
• 2010: Mona Hatoum
• 2011: Janet Cardiff, George Bures Miller
• 2012: Douglas Gordon
• 2013:
• 2014: Corinne Wasmuht
• 2015: Bernard Frize^[2]
• 2016: ^[3]
• 2017: Katharina Sieverding
• 2018: Adrian Piper
• 2019: Hito Steyerl^[4]
• 2020:
• 2021: Maria Eichhorn^[5]
• 2022: Nan Goldin^[6]
• 2023: ^[7]

See also

• List of European art awards

Notes and References

1. Web site: Käthe Kollwitz Prize.
2. Web site: 2014-12-11 . Bernard Frize wins the 2015 Käthe Kollwitz Prize . 2023-03-04. artreview.com.
3. Web site: Käthe Kollwitz Prize 2016 – Edmund Kuppel . Berlin. Akademie der Künste. 3 November 2016.
4. Web site: 20 February 2019 . Käthe-Kollwitz-Preis für Hito Steyerl . 28 September 2020 . dw.com.
5. Web site: Käthe-Kollwitz-Preis 2021 der Akademie der Künste geht an Maria Eichhorn . Akademie der Künste, Berlin . de . 29 January 2022.
6. Web site: Nan Goldin to receive the Käthe Kollwitz Prize 2022 . 28 May 2022 . artreview.com . en.
7. Web site: Der Käthe-Kollwitz-Preis 2023 der Akademie der Künste geht an Sandra Vásquez de la Horra . . de . 27 November 2023.