Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts
The Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts in Munich is an association of well-known personalities from artistic life. It is intended to serve as the "supreme foster home of art".
tasks
The academy was founded by the Free State of Bavaria as a corporation under public law in 1948, following on from the tradition of the Royal Academy of Arts in Munich, established in 1808.
It is the task of the academy to “constantly observe the development of the arts, to promote them in every way that appears expedient or to make suggestions for their support”, and to “contribute to the intellectual debate between the arts and between art and society perform and stand up for the dignity of art ”.
The academy organizes panel discussions, exhibitions, readings, lectures and concerts. Every year ordinary and corresponding members are elected to the five departments of visual arts , literature , music , performing arts and film and media arts; in addition, honorary members are appointed.
Until 1968 the academy was located in the Prinz-Carl-Palais ; then she was given temporary quarters on Karolinenplatz . Since 1972 it has been housed in the Königsbau of the Munich Residence .
Prices
The following prizes and work grants have been or will be awarded by the Academy:
Fine Arts Department
- Art award of the visual arts department
- Brigitte and Ekkehard Grübler Foundation (since 2014)
- Karl Rössing travel grant (since 1986)
- Friedrich-Ludwig-von-Sckell-Ehrenring (since 1967; for landscape architecture)
Literature Department
- Grand Literature Prize of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts (1950–85 as a literature prize , 1986–2007 as a great literature prize , since 2008 as the Thomas Mann Literature Prize )
- Literary gift of honor (1952-85; replaced by the Wilhelm Hausenstein honor )
- Adelbert von Chamisso Prize (1985–2005; together with the Robert Bosch Foundation ; literature prize)
- Horst Bienek Prize for Poetry (since 1991)
- Rainer Malkowski Prize (since 2006; together with the Rainer Malkowski Foundation; literature prize)
Music Department
- Ernst von Siemens Music Prize (since 1974; together with the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation )
- Commissioned composition of the academy (since 1990)
- Gerda and Günter Bialas Prize (since 1998; together with the GEMA Foundation; music prize)
- New Hearing Award (since 2006; together with the Foundation for New Music in Dialogue , Cologne; for communicating contemporary music)
Prices of all departments of the academy
- Friedrich Baur Prize (since 1990; together with the Friedrich Baur Foundation ; for artists in Franconia , Upper Palatinate and Lower Bavaria )
- Wilhelm Hausenstein Award for Cultural Mediation (since 1986); is awarded alternately by the individual departments of the academy
Members
Management and employees
President
- 1948–1953: Wilhelm Hausenstein
- 1953–1968: Emil Preetorius
- 1968–1974: Hans Egon Holthusen
- 1974-1983: Gerd Albers
- 1983–1995: Heinz Friedrich
- 1995–2004: Wieland Schmied
- 2004–2013: Dieter Borchmeyer
- 2013–2019: Michael Krüger
- since July 2019: Winfried Nerdinger
Directors
Fine Arts Department
- 1948–1955: Rudolf Esterer
- 1956–1959: Josef Wiedemann
- 1959–1969: Hermann Kaspar
- 1969–1983: Johannes Ludwig
- 1983-1992: Gerd Albers
- 1992–1995: Wieland Schmied
- 1995-2004: Helmut Gebhard
- 2004–2019: Winfried Nerdinger
- since 2019: Wilhelm Christoph Warning
Literature Department
- 1948–1955: Wilhelm Diess
- 1956-1965: Curt Hohoff
- 1966–1968: Hans Egon Holthusen
- 1968–1982: Friedhelm Kemp
- 1982–1990: Horst Bienek
- 1990-2004: Albert von Schirnding
- 2004–2009: Peter Horst Neumann
- 2010: Jens Malte Fischer
- 2010–2015: Gert Heidenreich
- 2015–2018: Hans Pleschinski
- since 2018: Georg M. Oswald
Music Department
- 1948–1955: Walter Riezler
- 1956–1959: Karl Höller
- 1959–1962: Robert Heger
- 1963–1974: Harald Genzmer
- 1974–1979: Günter Bialas
- 1980–1986: Walter Wiora
- 1986–1992: Karl Schumann
- 1992–2002: Wilhelm Killmayer
- 2002–2016: Siegfried Mauser
- since 2016: Peter Michael Hamel
Performing Arts Department
- since 1986: Dieter Dorn
Film and Media Art Department
- 2010–2015: Edgar Reitz
- since 2015: Bernhard Sinkel
General Secretaries
- 1948–1975: Clemens von Podewils
- 1975–1986: Karl Schumann
- 1986–2004: Oswald Georg Bauer
- since 2004: Katja Schaefer