The Austrian Decoration for Science and Art () is a

state decoration A state decoration is an object, such as a medal or the insignia of an Order (distinction), order, that is awarded by a sovereign state to honor the recipient. The term includes civil awards and decorations, as well as military awards and decorat ...

of the

Republic of Austria Austria, formally the Republic of Austria, is a landlocked country in Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine Federal states of Austria, states, of which the capital Vienna is the List of largest cities in Aust ...

and forms part of the Austrian national honours system.

History

The "Austrian Decoration for Science and Art" was established by the National Council as an honour for

scientific Science is a systematic discipline that builds and organises knowledge in the form of testable hypotheses and predictions about the universe. Modern science is typically divided into twoor threemajor branches: the natural sciences, which stu ...

artistic Art is a diverse range of culture, cultural activity centered around works of art, ''works'' utilizing Creativity, creative or imagination, imaginative talents, which are expected to evoke a worthwhile experience, generally through an express ...

achievements by Federal Law of May 1955 ( Federal Law Gazette No. 96/1955 as amended BGBl I No 128/2001). At the same time, the National Council also established the "Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art", which is awarded as "Cross of Honour, First Class" (German: ''Ehrenkreuz 1. Klasse'') and "Cross of Honour" (German: ''Ehrenkreuz''). While not technically counted as lower classes of the Decoration for Science and Art, these crosses are nevertheless affiliated with it.

Divisions

Decoration for Science and Art

The number of living recipients of the Decoration for Science and Art is limited to a maximum of 72 at any one time (36 recipients for science and 36 for arts). In each of these two groups there are 18 Austrian citizens and 18 foreign nationals.

Cross of Honour for Science and Art, First Class

There are no limits on the number of recipients.

Cross of Honour for Science and Art

There are no limits on the number of recipients.

Precedence

Recipients

Decoration for Science and Art

*1957:

Clemens Holzmeister Clemens Holzmeister (27 March 1886 – 12 June 1983) was a prominent Austrian architect and stage designer of the early twentieth century. The Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Austrian Academy of Fine Arts listed his life's work as containing 673 pro ...

, architect *1959: Max Mell, writer *1959: Alfred Verdross, jurist *1960: O. W. Fischer, actor *1961: Herbert von Karajan, conductor; Rudolf von Laun, international lawyer *1964: Edmund Hlawka, mathematician; Ernst Lothar, writer and director *1966: Ludwig von Ficker, writer and publisher *1967: Karl Heinrich Waggerl, writer;

Lise Meitner Elise Lise Meitner ( ; ; 7 November 1878 – 27 October 1968) was an Austrian-Swedish nuclear physicist who was instrumental in the discovery of nuclear fission. After completing her doctoral research in 1906, Meitner became the second woman ...

, physicist *1969: Anny Felbermayer, soprano *1971: Fritz Wotruba, architect and artist *1972:

Elias Canetti Elias Canetti (; 25 July 1905 – 14 August 1994; ; ) was a German-language writer, known as a Literary modernism, modernist novelist, playwright, memoirist, and nonfiction writer. Born in Ruse, Bulgaria, to a Sephardi Jews, Sephardic Jewish fam ...

, writer *1974: Gottfried von Einem, composer *1974:

Paul Hörbiger Paul Hörbiger (29 April 1894 – 5 March 1981) was an Austrians, Austrian theatre and film actor. Life and work Paul Hörbiger was born in the Lands of the Crown of Saint Stephen, Hungarian capital Budapest, then part of Austria-Hungary, the ...

, actor *1975: Hans Tuppy, biochemist; Robert Stolz, composer *1976: Friedrich Torberg, writer and translator; Manfred Eigen, chemist *1977: Ernst Schönwiese, writer *1978: Hans Nowotny, chemist *1979: Roland Rainer, architect; Max Weiler, artist *1980: Alfred Uhl and Marcel Rubin, composer; Fritz Hochwälder, writer;

Karl Popper Sir Karl Raimund Popper (28 July 1902 – 17 September 1994) was an Austrian–British philosopher, academic and social commentator. One of the 20th century's most influential philosophers of science, Popper is known for his rejection of the ...

, philosopher and science theorist *1981: Gertrud Fussenegger, writer; Werner Berg, painter *1982: Heinrich Harrer, mountaineer; Jacqueline de Romilly, philologist *1983: Hans Plank, painter *1985: Erika Mitterer, writer *1985: Joannis Avramidis, painter and sculptor *1986: Johann Jascha, artist *1987: Friederike Mayröcker, writer *1988: Dietmar Grieser, author and journalist *1990: Ernst Jandl, writer; Hans Hollein, architect *1991: H. C. Artmann, writer *1992:

Carlos Kleiber Carlos Kleiber (3 July 1930 – 13 July 2004) was a German-born Austrian conductor, who is widely regarded as among the greatest conductors of all time. The son of the conductor Erich Kleiber, he was particularly known for the Romantic rep ...

, conductor;

Krzysztof Penderecki Krzysztof Eugeniusz Penderecki (; 23 November 1933 – 29 March 2020) was a Polish composer and conductor. His best-known works include '' Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima'', Symphony No. 3, his '' St Luke Passion'', '' Polish Requiem'', '' ...

, composer *1993: Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, architect; Peter Schuster, chemist; Gottfried Biegelmeier, physicist; Walter Thirring, physicist; Albert Eschenmoser, chemist; Albrecht Schöne, philologist; Günther Wilke, chemist *1994: Josef Mikl, painter;

Erwin Chargaff Erwin Chargaff (11 August 1905 – 20 June 2002) was an Austro-Hungarian-born American biochemist, writer, and professor of biochemistry at Columbia University medical school. A Bucovinian Jew who immigrated to the United States during the Nazi ...

, chemist *1995:

Horst Stein Horst Walter Stein (2 May 1928 – 27 July 2008) was a German conductor. Biography Stein was born in Elberfeld, Germany; his father was a mechanic. At school in Frankfurt, he studied piano, oboe, and singing. Later, he continued studies ...

, conductor *1996: Siegfried Josef Bauer, meteorologist and geophysicist *1997: Bruno Gironcoli, artist; Kurt Schwertsik, composer; Hans Hass, biologist; Robert Walter, jurist; Albrecht Dihle, classical philologist; Cassos Karageorghis, archaeologist; Klemens von Klemperer, historian *1998: Hans-Jörg Wiedl reptile expert Helmut Denk, pathologist *1999: Carl Pruscha, architect; Elisabeth Lichtenberger, geographer; Karl Acham, sociologist; Walter Kohn, physicist *2000: Paul Kirchhof, constitutional and tax lawyer; Hans Müllejans, provost;

Herwig Wolfram Herwig Wolfram (born 14 February 1934) is an Austrian historian who is Professor Emeritus of Medieval History and Auxiliary Sciences of History at the University of Vienna and the former Director of the . He is a leading member of the Vienna Schoo ...

, historian; Gerardo Broggini, lawyer *2001: Anton Zeilinger, experimental physicist *2002:

Arik Brauer Arik Brauer (; 4 January 1929 – 24 January 2021) was an Austrian painter, printmaker, poet, dancer, singer-songwriter, stage designer, architect, and academic teacher. Brauer, from a family of Jewish emigrants, grew up in Vienna under the N ...

, painter, poet and singer;

Peter Wolf Peter Wolf (born March 7, 1946) is an American musician best known as the lead vocalist of The J. Geils Band from 1967 to 1983 and as a solo artist. Early life and education Wolf was born Peter Walter Blankfield on March 7, 1946, in the Bronx ...

, Austrian-born producer and composer; Eugen Biser, religious philosopher; Horst Dreier, legal philosopher; Elliott H. Lieb, physicist and mathematician; Bogdan Bogdanović, architect *2003: Hermann Fillitz, art historian; Wolfgang M. Schmidt, mathematician *2004: Klaus Wolff, dermatologist *2005:

Václav Havel Václav Havel (; 5 October 193618 December 2011) was a Czech statesman, author, poet, playwright, and dissident. Havel served as the last List of presidents of Czechoslovakia, president of Czechoslovakia from 1989 until 1992, prior to the dissol ...

, writer, dissident and former president of the Czech Republic; Christian Attersee, painter;

Eric Kandel Eric Richard Kandel (; born Erich Richard Kandel, November 7, 1929) is an Austrian-born American medical doctor who specialized in psychiatry, a neuroscientist and a professor of biochemistry and biophysics at the College of Physicians and Surgeo ...

, neuroscientist; Peter Palese, virologist *2006: Bruno Ganz, actor; Stephen Toulmin, philosopher; Christian Meier, historian; Pierre Soulages, painter; Michael Mitterauer, historian *2007: Otto Tausig, actor *2008:

Marina Abramović Marina Abramović ( sr-Cyrl, Марина Абрамовић, ; born November 30, 1946) is a Serbian conceptual and performance artist. Her work explores body art, endurance art, the relationship between the performer and audience, the limit ...

, performance artist *2009: Mati Sirkel, translator *2010: Paul Holdengräber, curator *2012: Christoph Waltz, actor, director. *2013: Gerhard Rühm, author, composer, artist *2014:

Abbas Kiarostami Abbas Kiarostami ( ; 22 June 1940 – 4 July 2016) was an Iranian film director, screenwriter, poet, photographer, and film producer. An active filmmaker from 1970, Kiarostami had been involved in the production of over forty films, including s ...

, film director, screenwriter, photographer

Cross (and Cross 1st Class)

Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art 1st Class

*1960: Karl Schiske, composer *1961: Günther Baszel, artist; Ernst Lothar, author and director *1965: Kurt Roger, Composer / Professor Georg Szell Conductor Nathan Milstein Violin *1966: Herbert Zipper, Conductor / Music Educator / Composer *1967: Maria Augusta von Trapp, matriarch of the Trapp Family Singers *1968: Alphons Barb, author *1970: Enver Čolaković, writer and poet *1971: Gustav Zelibor, pianist and conductor *1974: Erika Mitterer, writer; Marcel Rubin, composer; Arthur Hilton, chemist, *1975

Karl Menger Karl Menger (; January 13, 1902 – October 5, 1985) was an Austrian-born American mathematician, the son of the economist Carl Menger. In mathematics, Menger studied the theory of algebra over a field, algebras and the dimension theory of low-r ...

, mathematician *1976: Wolfgang Mayer König, writer *1977: Wolfgang Rehm, musicologist *1978: Kurt Neumüller, pianist and pedagogue *1980: Alfred Uhl, composer *1981: Thomas Christian David, conductor, composer, flutist *1982: Margareta Sjöstedt Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art

Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art

*1983: Walter Bitterlich, forest scientist, Wolf Häfele, physicist *1984:

Frank Sinatra Francis Albert Sinatra (; December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998) was an American singer and actor. Honorific nicknames in popular music, Nicknamed the "Chairman of the Board" and "Ol' Blue Eyes", he is regarded as one of the Time 100: The Most I ...

, singer and actor, Fritz Muliar, actor and director, Ludwig Schwarzer, painter *1987: Sir Malcolm Pasley, literary scholar and philologist; Alois Hergouth, writer and poet; Helen Adolf, literary scholar and linguist *1989: Norbert Pawlicki, pianist and composer *1991: Neal Zaslaw, American musicologist *1994: Christian M. Nebehay, art dealer and author *1996: Ronald S. Calinger, American historian of Mathematics;

Fausto Cercignani Fausto Cercignani (; born March 21, 1941) is an Italian scholar, essayist and poet. Biography Born to Tuscan parents, Fausto Cercignani studied in Milan, where he graduated in foreign languages and literatures with a dissertation dealing with ...

, Italian scholar, essayist and poet; Quirino Principe, Italian philosopher of music and dramatist *1997:

Herbert Willi Herbert Willi (born 7 January 1956) is an Austrian composer of classical music, whose orchestral works, concertos and chamber music have been performed internationally and also recorded. Willi composed an opera, ''Schlafes Bruder'', for the Oper ...

, composer; Lucian O. Meysels, author; Ernest Manheim, American sociologist of Hungarian origin *1998:

Senta Berger Senta Verhoeven (née Berger; ''Austrian German:'' , ; born 13 May 1941) is an Austrian-German actress. She received many award nominations for her acting in theatre, film, and television; her awards include three Bambi (prize), Bambi Awards, t ...

, actress, Kiki Kogelnik, artist (posthumously awarded), Edith Neumann, microbiologist., Edmund Engelman, Jewish-Austrian, later American photographer and engineer *1999: Peter Simonischek, actor, Erich Gruen, historian. *2001: Klaus-Peter Sattler, composer, Hermann Maurer, computer scientist, Walter Homolka, rabbi; Hannspeter Winter, physicist; Johann Grander, inventor. *2002: Fabio Luisi, Italian conductor, Kurt Rudolf Fischer, philosopher, Wolfdietrich Schmied-Kowarzik, philosopher; John Ross, chemist; Seiji Ozawa, conductor *2003: Erich Schleyer, actor and author, Günther Granser, economist *2004: Oswald Oberhuber, artist, Hans Winter, veterinary pathologist *2005: Gottfried Kumpf, painter, architect, sculptor,

Georg Ratzinger Georg Ratzinger PA (15 January 19241 July 2020) was a German Catholic priest, Cast Film, Soap Opera Actor, Comedian, and musician, known for his work as the conductor of the Regensburger Domspatzen, the cathedral choir of Regensburg. He was ...

, choirmaster, Heinz Zemanek, computer pioneer *2006: Peter Ruzicka, German composer and artistic director, Lothar Bruckmeier, painter,

Peter Wegner Peter Wegner may refer to: * Peter Wegner (computer scientist) (1932–2017), professor of computer science at Brown University, Rhode Island, United States * Peter Wegner (American artist) (born 1963) * Peter Wegner (Australian artist) See also

, computer scientist, Elisabeth Leonskaja, Russian pianist, Richard Kriesche, artist *2007: Herbert W. Franke, scientist, writer, artist; Hans Walter Lack, botanist; Josef Burg, writer; Reginald Vospernik, high school director; Nuria Nono-Schönberg, Lawrence Schönberg, Ronald Schönberg, the three children of Arnold Schoenberg *2008: Gerhard Haszprunar, zoologist;

Ernst von Glasersfeld Ernst von Glasersfeld (March 8, 1917, Munich – November 12, 2010, Leverett, Massachusetts, Leverett, Franklin County, Massachusetts) was a philosopher, and emeritus professor of psychology at the University of Georgia, research associate at ...

, Austro-American constructivist, Michael Ludwig, Michael Kaufmann, manager of German culture; Reinhard Putz, anatomist; Jessye Norman, American soprano; Hannes Androsch, Finance Minister and Vice Chancellor a.D.; Gerald Holton, physicist and historian of science *2008:

Arvo Pärt Arvo Pärt (; born 11 September 1935) is an Estonian composer of contemporary classical music. Since the late 1970s, Pärt has worked in a minimalist style that employs tintinnabuli, a compositional technique he invented. Pärt's music is in p ...

, Estonian composer *2009: Grita Insam, gallerist; Hans Werner Scheidl, journalist and author; Stefan Größing, sports scientist; Bruno Mamoli, specialist in neurology and psychiatry; Fredmund Malik, management scientist; Theodore Bikel; Hans Werner Sokop, poet and translator *2010: Boris Pahor, Slovenian writer *2011: Harry Schachter, Canadian Biochemist *2012: Hilde Hawlicek, Austrian former government minister *2012:

Ronny Reich Ronny Reich (; born 1947) is an Israeli archaeologist, excavator and scholar of the ancient remains of Jerusalem. Education Reich studied archaeology and geography at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His MA thesis (supervised by Prof. Yigae ...

, Israeli Archaeologist *2013: Uroš Lajovic, Slovenian conductor; Peter Bogner (art historian), art historian *2015: Jan M. Ziolkowski, American medievalist and Latinist *2015: Richard Gisser, demographer *2016: Bernard Keeffe, conductor, radio and television broadcaster, scriptwriter, BBC producer, Chair and President of Anglo-Austrian Music Society. *2017: Julius Rebek Jr., American chemist; Michael Schratz, educational scientist *2019: , Dutch historian *2020: Franz Schausberger, Austrian politician and historian *2021:

Jesús Padilla Gálvez Jesús Padilla Gálvez (; born October 28, 1959) is a philosopher who worked primarily in philosophy of language, logic, and the history of sciences. Professional biography Jesús Padilla Gálvez studied Philosophy, History and Mathematics at ...

, Spanish philosopher *2021: August Reinisch, Austrian lawyer

Forfeiture

Forfeiture of this honour became possible with Federal Law Gazette I No 128/2001, changing Act § 8a. It allows the government to strip recipients of their honours if deemed unworthy. The best known example of such a forfeiture is of the Nazi physician Heinrich Gross. On 5 August 2008 the Austrian Science Minister Johannes Hahn decided not to withdraw the award from inventor Johann Grander. – see also Wikipedia German version and see also Austrian ministry

References

External links

www.kurienwissenschaftundkunst.at

Decoration of Honour
Federal President of the Republic of Austria
Federal Law Gazette, 22 June 1955
Federal Law of 25 May 1955 on the creation of the Austrian Medal for Science and the Arts and the Austrian Honorary Cross for Science and the Arts (pdf, 647kb)
Federal Law Gazette, November 2001
Amendment to the Federal Law on the establishment of an Austrian Medal for Science and the Arts and the Austrian Honorary Cross for Science and the Arts. (pdf, 5kb)
Complete list of beneficiaries of Honours from 1952 till 23 April 2012
following parliamentary question 10542/AB XXIV. GP in 2012 (parlament.gv.at) {{DEFAULTSORT:Austrian Decoration For Science And Art Orders, decorations, and medals of Austria Lists of Austrian people 1955 establishments in Austria Awards established in 1955