Great Austrian State Prize

The Grand Austrian State Prize is the highest distinction that the Republic of Austria bestows once a year on an artist for outstanding achievements. In addition to the Great Austrian State Prize discussed here, there are numerous other state prizes in the Republic of Austria .

description

The Grand Austrian State Prize in its current form was created in 1950 by the then Minister of Education Felix Hurdes ( there had been an award of this name since 1934 in the first republic ). Austrian citizenship or permanent residence in Austria is required to be granted. Since 1971 the prize, which previously could be awarded annually to winners in several categories, has only been awarded in one category and to a single person per year. The Grand Austrian State Prize is awarded on the proposal of the Austrian Art Senate without a fixed principle of rotation within the categories of architecture , visual arts , literature and music for an artistic life's work. Since 2003 it has been endowed with 30,000 euros.

Prize winners 1934 to 1937

literature

• 1934 Karl Heinrich Waggerl
• 1935 Josef Friedrich Perkonig
• 1936 Maria Grengg
• 1937 Heinrich Suso Waldeck , sponsorship award: Johannes Freumbichler

Visual arts

• 1936 Wilhelm Frass

music

• 1937 Hanns Holenia

Prize winner from 1950

Architecture: 1950 Josef Hoffmann 1953 Clemens Holzmeister 1954 Max Fellerer 1958 Erich Boltenstern 1962 Roland Rainer 1965 Josef Frank 1967 Franz Schuster 1971 Gustav Peichl 1975 Karl Schwanzer 1983 Hans Hollein 1999 Wolf D. Prix and Helmut Swiczinsky with Coop Himmelb (l) au 2000 Wilhelm Holzbauer 2004 Günther Domenig 2011 Heinz Tesar 2015 Elke Delugan-Meissl and Roman Delugan 2020: Laurids Ortner and Manfred Ortner

Visual arts: 1951 Alfred Kubin 1952 Albert Paris Gütersloh 1954 Herbert Boeckl 1955 Oskar Kokoschka 1955 Fritz Wotruba 1956 Alfred Wickenburg 1957 Karl Sterrer 1958 Toni Schneider-Manzell 1960 Ferdinand Kitt 1960 Max Weiler 1962 Josef Dobrowsky 1963 Arnold Clementschitsch 1965 Sergius Pauser 1966 Hans Fronius 1968 Kurt Moldovan 1969 Rudolf Hoflehner 1973 Joannis Avramidis 1978 Arnulf Rainer 1980 Friedensreich Hundertwasser 1984 Walter Ritter 1985 Walter Pichler 1988 Maria Lassnig 1993 Bruno Gironcoli 1996 Günter Brus 1997 Christian Ludwig Attersee 2003 Siegfried Anzinger 2005 Hermann Nitsch 2008 Karl Prantl 2009 Brigitte Kowanz 2013 Erwin Wurm 2017 Renate Bertlmann

Literature: 1950 Josef Leitgeb 1951 Felix Braun 1952 Martina Wied 1953 Rudolf Henz 1954 Max Mell 1955 Franz Theodor Csokor 1956 Franz Nabl 1957 Heimito von Doderer 1957 Franz Karl Ginzkey 1958 Imma von Bodmershof 1959 Carl Zuckmayer 1961 Albert Paris Gütersloh 1961 Alexander Lernet-Holenia 1962 George Saiko 1963 Kurt Frieberger 1964 Johannes Urzidil 1966 Fritz Hochwälder 1967 Elias Canetti 1968 Ingeborg Bachmann 1969 Christine Busta 1970 Christine Lavant 1972 Friedrich Heer 1974 Hans Carl Artmann 1977 Manès Sparhawk 1979 Friedrich Torberg 1982 Friederike Mayröcker 1984 Ernst Jandl 1987 Peter Handke 1989 Oswald Wiener 1991 Gerhard Rühm 1994 Wolfgang Bauer 1995 Ilse Aichinger 1998 Andreas Okopenko 2001 Gert Jonke 2007 Josef Winkler 2012 Peter Waterhouse 2016 Gerhard Roth 2018 Florjan Lipuš

Music: 1950 Joseph Marx 1951 Egon Kornauth 1953 Johann Nepomuk David 1955 Josef Matthias Hauer 1956 Hans Erich Apostel 1956 Otto Siegl 1957 Hans Gál 1959 Theodor Berger 1959 Alfred Uhl 1961 Egon Wellesz 1963 Ernst Krenek 1965 Gottfried von One 1966 Hanns Jelinek 1967 Karl Schiske 1968 Erich Marckhl 1969 Anton Heiller 1970 Marcel Rubin 1976 Cesar Bresgen 1981 Roman Haubenstock-Ramati 1986 Friedrich Cerha 1990 György Ligeti 1992 Kurt Schwertsik 2002 HK Gruber 2006 Georg Friedrich Haas 2010 Olga Neuwirth 2014 Beat Furrer 2019 Thomas Larcher

Individual evidence

1. ^ Christian Reder : Points of remembrance
2. ↑ orf.at - Grand State Prize for Delugan Meissl . Article dated May 11, 2015, accessed May 11, 2015.
3. ^ Grand State Prize to Laurids and Manfred Ortner. In: ORF.at . April 3, 2020, accessed April 3, 2020 . 
4. ^ Renate Bertlmann receives the Grand Austrian State Prize. Der Standard, May 9, 2017, accessed on the same day.
5. ^ Orf.at - Great Austrian State Prize to Gerhard Roth . Article dated March 4, 2016, accessed March 4, 2016.
6. ↑ orf.at: Author Florjan Lipus receives Grand State Prize . Article dated July 5, 2018, accessed July 5, 2018.

Web links

• List of all award winners (Art Senate)
• List of all award winners (Ministry)

literature

• The Austrian Art Senate (Ed.): KUNST KUNST KUNST - The Great Austrian State Prize in the Museum of the 20th Century . Jung and Jung Verlag, Salzburg 2003, ISBN 3-902144-55-6 .
• Austrian State Prize Winner for Music. The official speeches . Publication of the Austrian music magazine, 1957 ff.