The Gutenberg Prize of the City of Leipzig (

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: ''Gutenberg-Preis der Stadt Leipzig'') is an award in memory of Johannes Gutenberg. Since 1959, the prize honor personalities or institutions that make outstanding contributions to the promotion of the art of books. Awarded people and Institutions have set standards with their artistic, technical, or scientific achievements, especially in the areas of typography, book illustration, book publishing, and book production. The award is in the Leipzig tradition as a historic center for print quality and care for book art. Since 1993, the Gutenberg Prize has been alternated with the Gutenberg Prize of the City of Mainz and the Gutenberg International Society annually. The prize is endowed with 10,000 euros.

Winners

* 1959: Horst Erich Wolter * 1960: Karl Gossow; Offizin Andersen Nexö Leipzig * 1961: Albert Kapr; Erfurt printing company * 1962: Werner Klemke; Typoart Dresden / Leipzig * 1963: Solomon Benediktinowitsch Telingater,

Fritz Helmuth Ehmcke Fritz Helmuth Ehmcke (1878–1965) was a German graphical designer, typographer and illustrator. Born in Inowrocław, Prussia (now Poland), Ehmcke was educated as a lithographer in Berlin during 1893–1897. In 1900, he was a co-founder o ...

* 1964: University of Graphics and Book Art of Leipzig * 1965: Lajos Lengyel,

Jan Tschichold Jan Tschichold (born Johannes Tzschichhold, also known as Iwan Tschichold, or Ivan Tschichold; 2 April 1902 – 11 August 1974) was a German calligrapher, typographer and book designer. He played a significant role in the development of gra ...

; Large-scale graphic company Völkerfreundschaft Dresden * 1966: Hans Baltzer, Bruno Rebner * 1967: publishing house Philipp Reclam jun. Leipzig * 1968: Walter Schiller, Vasil Jontschev; Interdruck Leipzig * 1969:

Bruno Kaiser Bruno Kaiser (5 February 1911 – 27 January 1982) was a Marxist scholar of German studies who became a journalist and, during the Nazi period, a resistance activist. In his later years he became, in addition, a distinguished librarian. Life ...

; Röderdruck Leipzig * 1970: German Museum of Books and Writing Leipzig; Graphic arts institution H.F. Jütte Leipzig * 1971: Andrei Dmitrijewitsch Gontscharow * 1972: Horst Kunze, Roman Tomaszewski * 1973: Hellmuth Tschörtner * 1974: Insel publishing house "Anton Kippenberg" Leipzig, publishing house of the art Dresden * 1975: Vadim Vladimirovich Lazursky; Stock Exchange Association of German Booksellers in Leipzig * 1976: Joachim Kölbel * 1977: Horst Schuster, György Haiman, Siegfried Hempel, Hans Marquardt * 1978:

HAP Grieshaber Helmut Andreas Paul Grieshaber or HAP Grieshaber (15 February 1909 – 12 May 1981) was a German artist. His preferred medium was large format woodcuts. Biography Grieshaber was born in Rot an der Rot. He went to school in Nagold and later in R ...

* 1979: Gert Wunderlich * 1980:

Edition Leipzig Edition Leipzig was a publisher in the German Democratic Republic (GDR/DDR), which, for the most part, placed books on Western markets as an export publisher. This was intended to serve representative purposes as well as to procure foreign curr ...

* 1981:

Hans Fronius Hans Fronius (12 September 1903 - 21 March 1988) was an Austrian painter and illustrator. He was born in Sarajevo, which was then a territory of Austria-Hungary (now Bosnia and Hercegovina). His father was descended from an old, aristocratic Tr ...

* 1982: Tibor Szántó, Helmut Selle * 1983: Siegfried Hoffmann * 1984: Elizabeth Shaw * 1985: Dmitri Spiridonowitsch Bisti * 1986: Jiri Salamoun * 1987: Fritz Helmut Landshoff * 1988: Lothar Reher * 1989: Yü Bing-Nan, Klaus Ensikat * 1990: Heinz Hellmis * 1991: Oldrich Hlavsa * 1992: Gutenberg Book Guild; Jürgen Seuss, Hans Peter Willberg * 1993: Kurt Löb * 1995: Wilhelm Neufeld * 1997:

Květa Pacovská Květa Pacovská (born 28 July 1928) is a Czech artist and illustrator. She received the international Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 1992 for her "lasting contribution to children's literature". Life and career Pacovská was born in Prague a ...

* 1999:

Jost Hochuli Jost Hochuli (born 8 June 1933 in St. Gallen, Switzerland) is a Swiss graphic designer known for his book designs. He is also the author of ''Detail in Typography'', which has been translated into several languages. Early career Jost Hochuli att ...

* 2001:

Irma Boom Irma Boom (born 15 December 1960) is a Dutch graphic designer who specializes in bookmaking. Boom has been described as The Queen of Books, having created over 300 books and is well reputed for her artistic autonomy within her field. Her bold e ...

* 2003:

Wolf Erlbruch Wolf Erlbruch (30 June 1948 – 11 December 2022) was a German illustrator and writer of children's books, who became professor at several universities. He combined various techniques for the artwork in his books, including cutting and pasting, ...

* 2005: Alvaro Sotillo * 2007: Ahn Sang-soo * 2009: Uwe Loesch * 2011: Karl-Georg Hirsch * 2013: Friedrich Pfäfflin * 2015:

Jan Philipp Reemtsma Jan Philipp Fürchtegott Reemtsma (born 26 November 1952) is a German literary scholar, author, and patron who founded and was the long-term director of the Hamburg Institute for Social Research. Reemtsma lives and works mainly in Hamburg. Biog ...

* 2017: Klaus Detjen * 2019: Fonts for Freedom

References

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