The Will Lammert Prize (german: Will-Lammert-Preis) was an East German art award named after the sculptor

Will Lammert Will Lammert (5 January 1892 – 30 October 1957) was a German sculptor. In 1959 he was posthumously awarded the National Prize of the German Democratic Republic. Life Germany (1892–1933) Will Lammert was born in Hagen in 1892, the son of ...

. Between 1962 and 1992, it was awarded at irregular intervals to young sculptors by the (East) German Academy of Arts. There were 13 laureates in total. The prize, which was donated by Lammert's widow in 1957, was awarded for the first time on 5 January 1962, to Werner Stötzer. This made the Will Lammert Prize the first privately sponsored award in East Germany. According to its provisions, only sculptors under the age of 30 were eligible for the prize. The age restriction was later lifted, however.

Award winners

* 1962:

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 reg ...

* 1964: Wilfried Fitzenreiter * 1966: Wieland Förster * 1967: Gerhard Rommel * 1969: Margret Middell * 1971: Friedrich B. Henkel * 1973: Bernd Göbel * 1976: Christa Sammler * 1979: Regina Fleck * 1982: Sonja Eschefeld * 1985: Emerita Pansowowa * 1988: Robert Metzkes * 1992: Rolf Biebl

Literature

* Complete list of the award winners: Horst-Jörg Ludwig (Ed.): ''Will Lammert (1892–1957) – Plastik und Zeichnungen''. Akademie der Künste, Berlin 1992, S. 128.

References

{{Reflist German awards Awards established in 1962 East German awards