Heitland Foundation
The Heitland Foundation is an art foundation founded in 1980 by the German entrepreneur Volker Heitland and based in Celle. Between 1980 and 2013 it awarded an art prize of 25,000 euros or 25,000 DM annually to biennially. It also supports visual artists in their training or on a project basis. Since 2015, the private foundation with its platform Heitland Honneur has awarded a prize several times a year to promising international positions in contemporary art.
The organization consists of the Board of Trustees with five members, the Board of Directors with three members and the Protectorium, which changes the composition.
Prize winners from 1980 to 2013
- 1980: Leonard teacher
- 1981: Roberto Matta
- 1983: Olaf Hauke
- 1984: Franz Bernhard
- 1985: Anna Oppermann
- 1986: Johannes Grützke
- 1987: Hetty Krist together with Rolf Böttcher
- 1988: Yvonne Goulbier
- 1989: Jean Ipoustéguy
- 1990: Stanislaw Batruch
- 1991: Timm Ulrichs
- 1992: Horst Egon Kalinowski
- 1993: Joachim Kuhlmann
- 1994: Jakob Mattner
- 1995: Allen Jones
- 1996: Zhou Brothers
- 1997: Philip Rantzer
- 1998: Bernhard Jäger
- 1999: Barbara Beisinghoff
- 2001: Eduardo Arroyo
- 2003: Shirin Neshat
- 2005: Thomas Huber
- 2007: Jaume Plensa
- 2009: Corinne Wasmuht
- 2011: Angela Ender, Johanna Jäger, Florian Lechner, Ginan Seidl
- 2013: Christian Jankowski
Heitland Honneur since 2015
- 2015: Martin Brodwolf, Rainer P. Hahn, Simon Hehemann
- 2016: Dieter Glasmacher , Faezeh Nikoozad, Stephan Rosche, Hubert Schmelzer, Hermann Grüneberg, Viola Yesiltaç
- 2017: Gert Wiedmaier , Simon Blume
- 2018: Nils Völker, Herbert Nouwens, Jörg Bach
literature
- 10 years of the Heitland Foundation: A Documentation, Celle 1990.
- 20 years of the Heitland Foundation: Twenty art award winners from a private foundation, Darmstadt 2000.
- 30 years of the Heitland Foundation , Celle 2011.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ 20 years of the Heitland Foundation: Twenty art award winners from a private foundation , Darmstadt 2000, p. 4 (foreword).
- ^ Heitland Foundation. Retrieved on May 7, 2018 (German).
- ^ Heitland Foundation. Retrieved on August 28, 2018 (German).
- ^ Heitland Foundation (statutes). Retrieved on August 28, 2018 (German).
- ^ Heitland Foundation. Retrieved on August 28, 2018 (German).
- ↑ Walls like sheets . In: Der Spiegel . No. 50 , 1981, pp. 205-208 ( Online - Dec. 7, 1981 ).
- ^ Heitland Foundation. Retrieved on August 28, 2018 (German).