Bundesarchiv Bild 183-G1128-0034-001, Berlin, Auszeichnung Willi Sitte mit dem Käthe-Kollwitz-Preis

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

Käthe Kollwitz Käthe Kollwitz ( born as Schmidt; 8 July 1867 – 22 April 1945) was a German artist who worked with painting, printmaking (including etching, lithography and woodcuts) and sculpture. Her most famous art cycles, including ''The Weavers'' and ' ...

. Established in 1960 by the then-Academy of Arts of the German Democratic Republic (nowadays the

Academy of Arts, Berlin The Academy of Arts (german: Akademie der Künste) is a state arts institution in Berlin, Germany. The task of the Academy is to promote art, as well as to advise and support the states of Germany. The Academy's predecessor organization was fo ...

), 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

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, the owner of the Käthe Kollwitz Museum in Cologne. The Academy organises a parallel exhibition, accompanied by a catalog, for the laureate.

Previous winners

*1960: *1961: Arno Mohr *1962: *1964: *1965: *1966: *1967:

Otto Nagel Otto Nagel (27 September 1894 – 12 July 1967) was a German painter, graphic designer and long-time head of the Academy of Arts, Berlin, Berlin Academy of Arts who was one of the most prolific artists of East Germany. Life Born at Wedding ( ...

*1968:

Willi Sitte Willi Sitte (28 February 1921 – 8 June 2013) was a German painter who was for a long time the president of the East German association of visual artists. References * Wolfgang Hütt: ''Willi Sitte''. Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 1976. *Robert R ...

*1969: *1970: *1971:

Curt Querner Curt Querner (1904–1976) was a German painter. Biography Querner was born in Börnchen, a village in Saxony not far south of Dresden (later incorporated into Possendorf, which today is part of Bannewitz).Herbert Sandberg *1973: *1974: Wieland Förster *1975:

Werner Stötzer Werner Stötzer (born Sonneberg 2 April 1931, died Altlangsow 22 July 2010) was a German Artist and Sculptor. For the last three decades of his life he lived and worked in Altlangsow (administratively part of Seelow) in the marshy Oderbruch r ...

*1976: Harald Metzkes *1977: *1978: Dieter Goltzsche *1979: *1980:

Werner Tübke Werner Tübke (30 July 1929 in Schönebeck, Germany – 27 May 2004 in Leipzig, Germany) was a German painter, best known for his monumental '' Peasants' War Panorama'' located in Bad Frankenhausen Bad Frankenhausen (officially: Bad Frankenhaus ...

*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 Martin Kippenberger (25 February 1953 – 7 March 1997) was a German artist known for his extremely prolific output in a wide range of styles and media, superfiction as well as his provocative, jocular and hard-drinking public persona. Kippenb ...

*1997: Astrid Klein *1998:

Miriam Cahn Miriam Cahn (born July 21, 1949, in Basel) is a Swiss painter. Biography Cahn studied at Schule für Gestaltung Basel in Basle from 1968 to 1975. Work Cahn's paintings and drawings incorporate feminism themes and female rituals; featuring " ...

*1999: Mark Lammert *2000: Svetlana Kopystiansky *2001: *2002: *2003: *2004:

Peter Weibel Peter Weibel (; born 5 March 1944 in Odessa, USSR) is an internationally known Austrian post-conceptual artist, curator and new media theoretician. He started out in 1964 as a visual poet but soon jumped from the page to the screen within the sen ...

*2005: *2006: Thomas Eller *2007:

Hede Bühl Hede Bühl (8 June 1940, Haan, near Düsseldorf) is a German sculptor who lives and works in Düsseldorf. She studied under Joseph Beuys and worked in the studio of Ewald Mataré. Her work has received numerous awards, including the Villa Roma ...

*2008: *2009:

Ulrike Grossarth Ulrike Grossarth (born 1952) is a German artist, dancer, and academic. Since 1998 she has been professor of mixed media art at Dresden Academy of Fine Arts. She was awarded the 2009 Käthe Kollwitz Prize by the Academy of Arts, Berlin for her coll ...

*2010:

Mona Hatoum Mona Hatoum ( ar, منى حاطوم; born 1952) is a British-Palestinian multimedia and installation artist who lives in London. Biography Mona Hatoum was born in 1952 in Beirut, Lebanon, to Palestinian parents. Although born in Lebanon, Hatoum ...

*2011: Janet Cardiff, George Bures Miller *2012:

Douglas Gordon Douglas Gordon (born 20 September 1966) is a Scottish artist. He won the Turner Prize in 1996, the Premio 2000 at the 47th Venice Biennale in 1997 and the Hugo Boss Prize in 1998. He lives and works in Berlin, Germany. Work Much of Gordon's ...

*2013: *2014:

Corinne Wasmuht Corinne Wasmuht (born 1964) is a German visual artist based in Berlin."Corinne Wasmuht CV" ...

*2015: Bernard Frize *2016: *2017:

Katharina Sieverding Katharina Sieverding (born 16 November 1944) is a German photographer known for her self-portraiture. Sieverding lives and works in Berlin and Düsseldorf. She is a professor emeritus at the University of the Arts, Berlin. Early life and educati ...

*2018:

Adrian Piper Adrian Margaret Smith Piper (born September 20, 1948) is an American conceptual artist and Kantian philosopher. Her work addresses how and why those involved in more than one discipline may experience professional ostracism, otherness, racial ...

*2019:

Hito Steyerl Hito Steyerl (born 1 January 1966) is a German filmmaker, moving image artist, writer, and innovator of the essay documentary.

*2020: *2021: Maria Eichhorn *2022:

Nan Goldin Nancy Goldin (born September 12, 1953) is an American photographer and activist. Her work often explores LGBT subcultures, moments of intimacy, the HIV/AIDS crisis, and the opioid epidemic. Her most notable work is '' The Ballad of Sexual Depe ...

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Previous winners

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