Karl Ströher Prize
The Karl Ströher Prize is a prize for fine arts awarded by the Karl Ströher Foundation based in Frankfurt and is linked to the Museum of Modern Art in Frankfurt.
history
The prize was founded in 1983 in memory of the Darmstadt entrepreneur and art patron Karl Ströher (1890–1977) by his two daughters Erika Pohl-Ströher and Ursula Ströher. At the request of Ströher's heirs, it is connected to the Museum of Modern Art in Frankfurt. A large part of the once extensive collection of contemporary art by Karl Ströher with important works of American Pop Art and Minimal Art as well as selected works of European art formed the basis of the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in Frankfurt am Main . The Beuys block from the former Ströher Collection was acquired by the State of Hesse and is in the Hessian State Museum in Darmstadt .
During his lifetime, Karl Ströher founded the "Ströher Prize" for painting in 1950, one of the first art prizes after 1945, which was initially endowed with DM 1,000. The award winners included Ernst Wilhelm Nay (1950), Fritz Winter (1952), Eberhard Schlotter (1953) and Heinz Trökes (1964).
The Karl Ströher Prize has been awarded every two years since 1986 to a visual artist who already has a stable work to show. The prize is endowed with 20,000 euros. It is regularly presented at the Museum of Modern Art in Frankfurt am Main and is usually associated with an exhibition and the purchase of a work or group of works.
Award winners
The previous winners include the artists
- 1986: Dieter Krieg
- 1987: Christa Näher
- 1989: Rosemarie Trockel
- 1991: Andreas Slominski
- 1993: Heiner Blum
- 1995: Udo Koch
- 1997: Miriam Cahn
- 1999: Michael Kalmbach
- 2003: Tobias Rehberger
- 2005: Marc Brandenburg
- 2007: Melvin Moti
- 2010: Cyprien Gaillard
- 2011: Tobias Zielony
- 2015: Tamara Grcic
Web links
- Tobias Rehberger receives Karl Ströher Prize. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . July 7, 2003.
Individual evidence
- ^ Rolf Lauter (Ed.): The Museum of Modern Art and the Ströher Collection. On the history of a private collection , exhibition catalog Museum für Moderne Kunst in the Galerie Jahrhunderthalle Hoechst (December 5, 1994 to January 8, 1995), Frankfurt am Main, 1994. ISBN 3-7973-0585-0 .
- ↑ Peter Iden ; Rolf Lauter : Pictures for Frankfurt. Inventory catalog of the Museum of Modern Art . Munich 1985. ISBN 978-3-7913-0702-2
- ↑ Ströher Collection. Museum of Modern Art (MMK) Frankfurt am Main, accessed on January 13, 2020 .