Letter Foundation

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The Letter Foundation (spelling: LETTER Foundation ) is a Cologne- based foundation for the promotion of art and culture.

history

It was founded in 1993 as a legal foundation under civil law. At the beginning of 1994 it started its primarily operational activity. The purpose of the foundation is to promote art and culture, including the related aspects of science and research; Promotion of visual artists and their works through the collection, preservation and maintenance as well as the presentation of artistic certificates, as well as their scientific documentation, research and publication.

The general task is to deal with hitherto rather unknown artists and works of art, which until now have often been wrongly overshadowed by the masters who are still known today. The main focus is currently - for the German-speaking area - sculpture between around 1780 and 1930, including the art of small relief (medals and plaques) and graphics around 1900, as well as contemporary German-Dutch cultural exchange.

The research center offers budding art historians parallel to their university studies the opportunity to work in preparation for a career in many areas of foundation, research, publication and exhibition activities.

The holdings of the foundation's own library, which currently has around 35,000 volumes and is available to those interested in science on request, are recorded in IT-supported documentation, as well as archive materials and objects from the art collection.

Exhibitions and publications are realized in cooperation with public law institutes to which objects from the art collection are available on loan or on permanent loan.

In the series of Letter fonts , publications appear primarily on sculpture and in future also on graphics from the 19th and early 20th centuries.

For artists who are active in printing, the Letter Press, located in the Münsterland region, has all the facilities for classic artist printing techniques for working stays.

Memberships

Scholarships and Awards

August Hoff grant for art historical research

In memory of the art historian August Hoff (1892–1971), until his dismissal by the National Socialists, director of the Duisburg Museum Association - later the Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum - and after 1945 director of the Cologne Werkschulen , the Letter Foundation established the August Hoff Scholarship for art historical research.

It serves to promote scientific work on artists and art-historical contexts, which have often not been of particular interest to art history studies. Research projects that correspond to the Letter Foundation's main interests in sculpture between around 1780 and 1930 and in graphics around 1875 to 1930 are preferably funded. Funding can optionally also be provided by awarding an August Hoff Prize for art historical research.

Ludwig Gies Prize for Small Sculpture

In memory of the sculptor Ludwig Gies (1887–1966), once with his "Lübeck Crucifix" at the center of the Nazi ostracism of so-called "Degenerate Art" and later recognized as probably the most important German creator of small reliefs (medals and plaques) in the 20th century, The Letter Foundation established the Ludwig Gies Prize for Small Sculpture.

The award ceremony takes place regularly in the context of the Fellbach Small Sculpture Triennial . The winners, who each receive prize money, will be presented with a small relief created by Hans Karl Burgeff for the occasion. In addition, the Letter Foundation acquires works by the award winners and makes them available on permanent loan to the collection of the city of Fellbach and the museum of the respective exhibition curator.

  1. Awarded on October 13th, 1995 in Stuttgart, on the occasion of the 6th Triennial of Small Sculpture, to Tamás Trombitás, Hungary
  2. Awarded on October 16, 1998 in Stuttgart on the occasion of the 7th Triennial of Small Sculpture to Willem Boshoff, South Africa and to Stephen Craig, Great Britain
  3. Awarded on July 21, 2001 on the occasion of the 8th Small Sculpture Triennial to Martin Assig , Germany and to Koken Nomura, Japan
  4. Awarded on June 25th, 2004 on the occasion of the 9th Small Sculpture Triennial to Bethan Huws, Great Britain and to Jürgen Krause, Germany
  5. Awarded on June 23, 2007 on the occasion of the 10th Small Sculpture Triennial to Jurij Avvakumov, Russia
  6. Awarded on June 12, 2010 on the occasion of the 11th Triennial Small Sculpture to Mariele Neudecker, Germany and to Guy Bar Amotz, Israel
  7. Awarded on June 22nd, 2013 on the occasion of the 12th Small Sculpture Triennial to Nathan Coley, Great Britain

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