Carl Blechen Prize

The Carl Blechen Prize for Art and Literature (later "for art, literature and artistic folk creation") was an award in the GDR .

The prize was donated by the city of Cottbus in 1956 on the occasion of the city's 800th anniversary and was dedicated to the landscape painter and art professor Carl Blechen , who was born in Cottbus . It was awarded annually or every two years and also included the award of a medal designed by Jürgen von Woyski .

Among the winners were the writer Brigitte Reimann and the sculptor Dorothea von Philipsborn (1964), the painters Wilhelm Schieber (1956), Kurt Heinz Sieger (1963 and 1968) and Günther Friedrich 1974, the writers Jurij Koch (1983) and Günther Rechn ( 1987), also a painter. The winners of the last award in 1990 included the writers Bernd-Dieter Hüge and Kristian Pech .