Austrian Art Senate

The Austrian Art Senate is an official body of twenty-one recognized Austrian artists, which has to represent the concerns of art in public and to advise the public sector on important relevant issues. The Art Senate proposes the candidates for the Grand Austrian State Prize and also has the right to nominate the state prize winners to the Art Senate.

history

The Austrian Art Senate was founded on September 7, 1954 by decree of the then Federal Ministry of Culture.

"To honor particularly outstanding personalities in the field of Austrian art and to provide technical advice to the Federal Ministry for Education in questions of state art administration"

- Federal Ministry for Education, Art and Culture : 1954

Austrian Art Senate

The members of the Art Senate represent the fields of architecture, visual arts, literature and music. They must be the recipient of the Grand Austrian State Prize and are appointed by the Austrian Minister of Culture (currently located in the Federal Chancellery ). You belong to the committee for life, so the average age of the art senate is relatively high. The art senate has the task of representing the concerns of art in public and also to advise the public authorities on important questions of art .

The Art Senate meets several times a year. It elects a president and two vice-presidents from among its members, each with a three-year term of office.

President

• 1954–1967: Clemens Holzmeister (1886–1983)
• 1967–1980: Rudolf Henz (1897–1987)
• 1980–1999: Roland Rainer (1910–2004)
• 1999–2012: Hans Hollein (1934–2014)
• 2012 – today: Josef Winkler (* 1953)

Members

1. HK Gruber (* 1943) (President)
2. Brigitte Kowanz (* 1957) (Vice President)
3. Siegfried Anzinger (* 1953) (Vice President)
4. Christian Ludwig Attersee (* 1940)
5. Joannis Avramidis (1922-2016)
6. Günter Brus (* 1938)
7. Friedrich Cerha (* 1926)
8. Georg Friedrich Haas (* 1953)
9. Peter Handke (* 1942)
10. Wilhelm Holzbauer (1930–2019)
11. Friederike Mayröcker (* 1924)
12. Gustav Peichl (1928-2019)
13. Wolf D. Prix (* 1942)
14. Arnulf Rainer (* 1929)
15. Gerhard Rühm (* 1930)
16. Kurt Schwertsik (* 1935)
17. Heinz Tesar (* 1939)
18. Peter Waterhouse (* 1956)
19. Erwin Wurm (* 1954)

Examples of interventions by the art senate

From 2008 onwards, the Art Senate successfully campaigned, among other things, for the continued existence of the endangered ORF symphony orchestra and for the giant circular painting in Innsbruck . In 1983 he successfully appeared for the continued functioning of Otto Wagner's bridge over the row .

Web links

• Website of the Austrian Art Senate
• Example of a statement on artists' social insurance (PDF; 4 kB)
• Partial archive of the Austrian Art Senate in the literature archive of the Austrian National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Glossary declaration by the Federal Ministry for Education, Art and Culture
2. ↑ New in the Art Senate: Erwin Wurm and Heinz Tesar , press article from September 1, 2014
3. ^ Open letter from the Austrian Art Senate on the situation of the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra ( Memento from April 25, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
4. ↑ Petition to save the RSO Vienna ( Memento from October 30, 2012 in the Internet Archive )