Hanno and Ilse Hahn Prize

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The Hanno and Ilse Hahn Prize is an Italian prize “for outstanding services to Italian art history ” and one of the rare European awards for promoting young art historians who have not yet qualified as a professor .

The prize, donated by Dietrich Hahn in 1990 , is awarded every two years by the directors, the advisory board and the board of trustees of the Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome and commemorates the only son of the chemist and discoverer of nuclear fission , Otto Hahn , and the art historian and architecture researcher Hanno Hahn (1922–1960) and to his wife and assistant Ilse Hahn, née Pletz (1920–1960), who died in an accident at the end of August 1960 on a study trip to France.

The Hanno and Ilse Hahn Prize consists of a leather-bound, provided with gold inlaid certificate and with DM 5,000 (5 million lire), endowed with 2,500 euros since of 2002. The document shows that as fresco designed crest of the Roman master painter Federico Zuccari (1540-1609), the builder of the Palazzo Zuccari in Piazza della Trinità dei Monti ( Trinita dei Monti , above the Spanish steps ) in which the Bibliotheca Hertziana - a Foundation of the Jewish patron of the arts Henriette Hertz (1846–1913) - resided since 1913.

Award winners

  • 1990: Ingo Herklotz (Konstanz), "for outstanding services to Italian art history, especially the Middle Ages."
  • 1992: Arnold Nesselrath (London / Rome), "for outstanding services to Italian art history, especially the afterlife of antiquity in the Renaissance."
  • 1994: Gerhard Wolf (Rome), "for outstanding services to Italian art history, especially the history of Roman cult images in the Middle Ages."
  • 1996: Sible Lambertus de Blaauw (Leiden / Rome), "for outstanding services to Italian art history, especially the Middle Ages and early Christian archeology."
  • 1998: Sebastian Schütze (Münster), "for outstanding services to Italian art history, especially research into the art of Rome in the 17th century."
  • 2000: Fabrizio Mancinelli (Rome, posthumously), "for outstanding services to Italian art history, especially the restoration of Michelangelo's frescoes in the Sistine Chapel."
  • 2002: Ulrich Pfisterer (Hamburg), “for outstanding services to Italian art history, especially the research into style awareness in the 15th century”.
  • 2004: David Ezra Knipp (Freiburg), "for outstanding services to Italian art history, in particular the art of early Christianity, the city of Rome in the early Middle Ages and Norman Sicily."
  • 2006: Francesca dell'Acqua (Salerno), "for outstanding services to Italian art history, in particular the research into colored glass windows from late antiquity to the high Middle Ages."
  • 2008: Vitale Zanchettin (Venice), "for outstanding services to Italian art history, especially research into the architecture and urbanism of the High Renaissance."
  • 2010: Cristina Ruggero (Rome), "for outstanding services to Italian art history, especially research into the sculpture and drawing arts of the 17th and 18th centuries."
  • 2012: Susanne Kubersky-Piredda (Rome), "for outstanding services to Italian art history, in particular for her research on artistic exchange between Italy and Spain and her conception of the research project: Roma communis patria - The national churches in Rome between the Middle Ages and modern times."
  • 2014: Stefan Albl (Vienna), "for outstanding services to Italian art history, in particular 17th century painting and its so-called dissidents like Pietro Testa."
  • 2016: Michele Bacci (Friborg), "for outstanding services to Italian art history, in particular for important studies on the transcultural art history of the Mediterranean in the Middle Ages and early modern times from a social-scientific and visual theological perspective."

An exemplary laudation

On the occasion of the first award of the prize to Ingo Herklotz in April 1990, Richard Krautheimer , who lived in the Palazzo Zuccari until his death, gave a classic laudation that was to go down in the annals of the Bibliotheca Hertziana:

INGONI HERKLOTZ IN COLONIAE CONSTANTINAE STUDIO MAGISTRO BIBLIOTHECA HERTZIANA ROMAE FUNDATA ROMANISQUE STUDIIS PRAECIPUE DEDICATA CLIPEUM CONFERT PERCUSSUM IN MEMORIAM HANNONIS ILSAPTEQUE HAHN PRAEMATURE HOCPTEQUE. ROMAE DILIGENTER STUDUISTI MONUMENTA AEDIFICANDI SCULPENDI PINGENDIQUE ARTIUM PROCREATA AEVO QUO PESSIME COGNOMEN ADIECTUM MEDII. ILLA TIBI SUNT EXEMPLARIA ILLIUS AETATIS INGENII. SUNT TIBI TESTES ECCLESIAE ROMANAE PONTIFICUMQUE CONSCIENTIUM DIGNITATIS IPSORUM IMPERIALIS ANTIQUITUS. REDDIT TIBI AES SAXUMQUE URBIS HEREDITATEM AETERNAE HOMINUMQUE MORES ANIMOSQUE. VALDE CONTRIBUISTI AD AUGENDAM INTERPRETANDAMQUE DISCIPLINAM NOSTRAM. BENE MERUISTI, MERES, MERERIS.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Henriette Hertz memorial lecture at the Bibliotheca Hertziana (biblhertz.it); accessed on September 2, 2015
  2. ↑ Awarding of the Hanno and Ilse Hahn Prize at the Bibliotheca Hertziana (biblhertz.it); accessed on September 2, 2015
  3. ^ Henriette Hertz memorial lecture by Sybille Ebert-Schifferer at the Bibliotheca Hertziana (biblhertz.it); accessed on September 2, 2015
  4. ^ Henriette Hertz memorial lecture by Michele Bacci. In: biblhertz.it. October 9, 2017. Retrieved October 27, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Richard Krautheimer: Address and laudation for Ingo Herklotz . Manuscript 1990. (Archives of the Bibliotheca Hertziana, Rome)