Culture Prize of the City of Basel

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The Culture Prize of the City of Basel is awarded every year to a person, a group or an institution that has made a special contribution to cultural life in Basel . The Basel government determines the winner on the recommendation of an expert jury. The prize is endowed with 20,000 francs.

The prize was awarded for the first time in 1948, at that time still under the name "Art Prize of the City of Basel". The award first took place at irregular intervals, since 1999 annually. The renaming took place in 1995 "to give expression to the comprehensive claim of the award ceremony (honor for services to the cultural life of Basel)."

Award winners

Literature Prize of the City of Basel

Between 1983 and 1996, parallel to the art prize, a «Literature Prize of the City of Basel» was awarded to a person or institution on the Basel literary scene. As with the art prize, the prize money was 20,000 francs.

Prize winners were:

Basel Art Prize

Since 2013, the Basel Art Prize has been awarded sporadically to older artists by the Kunstkredit Basel-Stadt for many years of high-quality work.

Prize winners:

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Price tenders from the Canton of Basel-Stadt
  2. ^ Basel-Stadt Government Council, media release of January 12, 1996
  3. ↑ According to the list of award winners since 1948 on the website of the Canton of Basel-Stadt
  4. ^ Image of the first award ceremony on January 8, 1949
  5. ↑ List according to the chronicle of the Basler Stadtbuch ( memento of the original dated August 30, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.basler-stadtbuch.ch