The Otto Breicha Award for Photographic Arts is awarded every two years by Museum der Moderne Salzburg to photographers from or living in Austria. The Award was first established in 1983 under the name 'Rupertinum Photo Prize'. The Salzburg Museum Rupertinum (which is now part of Museum der Moderne Salzburg) was co-founded by its first director Otto Breicha. The prize was awarded every two years until 2001. After a hiatus the prize was revived in 2007 and renamed "Otto Breicha Prize for Photographic Art" in memory of Otto Breicha's early promotion of photography as an art form, which was still not very popular at the time. It was reconceptualized so that it is not longer only awarded for pure photography, but also recognizes the role of photography in media contexts. The prize is supported by the Breicha family and the winner's work is shown in an exhibition at Rupertinum.

Laureates

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Heinz Cibulka Heinz Cibulka (born 16 January 1943) is an Austrian photographer and assemblage artist. References External links 1943 births Living people Austrian photographers {{Austria-artist-stub ...

, - , 05 , 1991 , Manfred Willmann , - , 06 , 1993 , Walter Berger , - , 07 , 1995 , Paul Albert Leitner , - , 08 , 1997 ,

Friedl Kubelka Friedl Kubelka (née Bondy, née vom Gröller) (born 1946) is an Austrian photographer, filmmaker and visual artist born in London, England in 1946. Her photographic practice has been attributed to a 20th-century movement known as Feminist Action ...

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Seiichi Furuya in Izu, Shizuoka is a Japanese photographer. As a student Furuya studied architecture and then spent two years at Tokyo College of Photography. In 1973 he left his studies and his native Japan and traveled, ending up, according to Arthur Ollman i ...

, - , 10 , 2001 , Peter Dressler , - , 11 , 2007 ,

Ferry Radax Ferry Radax (20 June 1932 – 9 September 2021) was an Austrian film maker born in Vienna, Austria. Career Radax was active in many genres since 1949. He studied at Vienna's Film Institute in 1953–54, followed by ''Cinecittà'', Centro Sperime ...

, - , 12 , 2009 , Margherita Spiluttini , - , 13 , 2011 ,

Ilse Haider Ilse Haider (born 1965 in Salzburg) is an Austrian artist. She focuses on photography and her photographic works use three dimensional surfaces. She has received a number of awards for her work and her work has appeared in exhibitions throughout ...

, - , 14 , 2013 , Matthias Herrmann , - , 15 , 2015 , Leo Kandl , - , 16 , 2017 , Lisl Ponger , - , 17 , 2019 ,

Marina Faust Marina Faust (born 1950) is an Austrians, Austrian artist and photographer. Life and work Marina Faust began working at the age of eighteen as a photographer in Vienna. Between 1974 and 1975 she collaborated with Magnum Photos. In the 1980s, sh ...

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Anna Jermolaewa Anna Jermolaewa (born ; 1970) is a Russia-born conceptual artist based in Vienna, Austria since 1989. Her artistic practice incorporates a wide range of media: video, installation, painting, performance, photography, and sculpture. In 1999, her v ...

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References

Austrian art Arts awards in Austria