Caspar David Friedrich Society
The Caspar-David-Friedrich-Gesellschaft eV is a public company founded in 1998, which is a non-profit and registered association based in Greifswald, dedicated to the painter Caspar David Friedrich .
tasks
The Caspar David Friedrich Society has set itself the goal of preserving the legacy of the painter Caspar David Friedrich and promoting its dissemination. The tasks include research on the life and work of Friedrich, exhibitions, guided tours and publications. The society operates the Caspar David Friedrich Center in Greifswald, praises the Caspar David Friedrich Prize and organizes the Caspar David Friedrich Lectures at the Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg Greifswald .
history
The association was founded in Greifswald in 1998. Since 2004, the company has been operating the Caspar-David-Friedrich-Zentrum in the rear building of the Lange Straße 57 building complex with the historic Friedrichschen soap boiler at Friedrich's birthplace and has its headquarters there. In 2008, a Caspar-David-Friedrich-Bildweg was set up in Greifswald. In 2011 the Caspar David Friedrich Center was expanded to include the renovated front building and a gallery was set up. The company is managed by a four-person executive board, chaired by Hannelore Kohl . From 1999 to 2014 the art professor Dagmar Lißke was chairwoman of the society.
Caspar David Friedrich Prize
The Caspar David Friedrich Prize has been awarded since 2001. It honors innovative approaches in contemporary art. Art students who are educated at Friedrich's biographical locations in Greifswald, Copenhagen and Dresden can apply. Artistic works are to be submitted for the competition, which deal with current issues relating to the relationship between man, nature and art and which are mentally related to the work of Caspar David Friedrich. The prize is endowed with 2,000 euros, an exhibition in Greifswald and the publication of a series of postcards.
Award winners
- 2001 Kathrin Becker, Caspar David Friedrich Institute at the Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald
- 2002 Johanna Domke, Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen
- 2003 Elena Kozlova, Caspar David Friedrich Institute at the Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald
- 2004 Martin Mannig, Dresden University of Fine Arts
- 2005 David Buob, Dresden University of Fine Arts
- 2006 Jan Kromke, Dresden University of Fine Arts
- 2007 Christin Wilcken, Caspar David Friedrich Institute at the Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald
- 2008 Eva Louise Buus, Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen
- 2009 Martha Damus, Caspar David Friedrich Institute at the Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald
- 2010 Denise Winter, Dresden University of Fine Arts
- 2011 Magnus Sönning, Dresden University of Fine Arts
- 2013 Clemens Tremmel, Dresden University of Fine Arts
- 2014 Daniel Hoffmann, Dresden University of Fine Arts
- 2015 Lukas Janitsch, Dresden University of Fine Arts
- 2016 Oliver Petschauer, Caspar David Friedrich Institute at the Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald
- 2017 Marten Schech , Dresden University of Fine Arts
- 2018 Anne-Mai Sønderborg Keldsen, Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen
- 2019 Mirjam Kroker, Dresden University of Fine Arts
- 2020 Ulrich Fischer, Caspar David Friedrich Institute at the Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald
literature
- Articles of Association of the Caspar-David-Friedrich-Gesellschaft eV (registered on December 3, 1998 under No. 0646 at the Greifswald District Court)
Web links
Coordinates: 54 ° 5 ′ 45.3 ″ N , 13 ° 22 ′ 37 ″ E