List of Wolf Prize Winners in Art
The Wolf Prize in Art is awarded every year alternately in the categories of painting , music , architecture and sculpture .
1981-1990
| 1981 | painting | Marc Chagall ( FR ) | "The greatest, most original and most poetic visionary among the pioneers of modern art, whose bright colors and human warmth have both deep personal meaning and universal charisma" |
| Antoni Tàpies ( ES ) | "One of the most important creators of the abstract 'informal' movement and a leader of the 'material' painters, whose work transforms 'matter' into a purely spiritual expression" | ||
| 1982 | music | Vladimir Horowitz ( US ) | "For his extraordinary contribution to the art of musical interpretation and especially his piano virtuosity" |
| Olivier Messiaen ( FR ) | "For his inspired and inspiring expansion of our sound world" | ||
| Josef Valley ( IL ) | "For his novel approach to musical structure and texture and the inexhaustible dramatic tension of his creations" | ||
| 1983/84 | architecture | Ralph Erskine ( SE ) | "For his fundamental contribution to contemporary architecture, based on his creative spirit that solves human problems in a very original formal language" |
| 1984/85 | sculpture | Eduardo Chillida ( ES ) | "His sculptures, which express a fertile imagination and a practical beauty of forms, combine tradition and innovation in a contemporary form." |
| 1986 | painting | Jasper Johns ( US ) | "One of the leading and most influential personalities in worldwide Pop Art since its inception" |
| 1987 | music | Isaac Stern ( US ) | "For his immortal humanistic contribution to society as an artist and educator who goes beyond the limits of musical performance" |
| Krzysztof Penderecki ( PL ) | "For his achievements and innovations in the field of composition" | ||
| 1988 | architecture |
Fumihiko Maki ( JP ) and Giancarlo De Carlo ( IT ) |
“For their work, which represents the spirit of an architecture that looks into the future without renouncing the past; creates meaningful forms and environments without renouncing human and social aspects, and answers universal questions without neglecting regional attributes " |
| 1989 | sculpture | Claes Oldenburg ( US ) | "Who for over three decades covered prosaic objects with historical and mythical allusions, which, despite the simplicity of their subject, are statements about transformation and invite the viewer to think about life processes" |
| 1990 | painting | Anselm Kiefer ( DE ) | "For his epic and physically compelling paintings in which he creates a continuum that connects today's life with history and mythology" |
1991-2000
| 1991 | music | Yehudi Menuhin ( GB ) | "One of the greatest violinists of the 20th century, whose unforgettable interpretations and humanitarian activities contributed significantly to bringing people together through musical education" |
| Luciano Berio ( IT ) | "One of the greatest composers of our generation, he is also recognized and admired worldwide as an interpreter, conductor, lecturer and writer, whose new ideas in an age of devaluation of human values help to bring peoples, cultures and generations closer together" | ||
| 1992 | architecture | Frank Gehry ( CA ) | "Creating architecture like art and sculpture, he embodies the struggle for freedom that destroys dogma, principle and method" |
| Jørn Utzon ( DK ) | "Its architecture, rooted in a thorough reading of human cultures, has given shape to ritual processes and gatherings in forms of longing appearances." | ||
| Denys Lasdun ( GB ) | "With architecture as social art, he strengthens the relationships between people through primary architectural means of a far transcendent style." | ||
| 1993 | sculpture | Bruce Nauman ( US ) | "For great work as a sculptor and his extraordinary contribution to the art of the 20th century" |
| 1994/95 | painting | Gerhard Richter ( DE ) | "For his enormous artistic activity, which has influenced the contemporary art scene over the past three decades" |
| 1995/96 | music | Zubin Mehta ( IN ) | “Who is regarded as one of the world's leading conductors of our time. His humanitarian contributions to bringing people together through the universal language of music and his constant encouragement of young artists are unforgettable. " |
| György Ligeti ( RO ) | "One of the most extraordinary composers of the second half of the 20th century, although building on musical tradition, he has pioneered new ways of original and innovative ways, and created models to stimulate young generations of composers" | ||
| 1996/97 | architecture |
Frei Otto ( DE ) and Aldo van Eyck ( NL ) |
"For their fundamental structural contributions to the promotion of contemporary architecture as a social and technical art form in the development of the 20th century" |
| 1998 | sculpture | James Turrell ( US ) | "His extremely individualistic pictures are a spiritual synthesis of form and light in a seemingly endless space." |
| 1999 | painting | Sigmar Polke ( DE ) | (Polke, however, refused to have any contact with the foundation and did not appear at the planned award ceremony in Jerusalem) |
| 2000 | music | Pierre Boulez ( FR ) | "One of the most creative living personalities in the realm of music" |
| Riccardo Muti ( IT ) | "One of the most outstanding conductors of our time" |
2001-2010
| 2001 | architecture | Álvaro Siza Vieira ( PT ) | "For the critical relevance of his architecture, which typically deals with the ongoing transformation of landscape and urban structure" |
| 2002/03 | Painting u. sculpture |
Louise Bourgeois ( FR ) | "For a complete oeuvre which, spanning six decades and a remarkable range of media, has retained its aesthetic and formal innovation, intellectual complexity and contemporary relevance." |
| 2004 | music | Mstislav Rostropovich ( RU ) | "A cellist, conductor, pianist and extraordinary person who produced a career of monumental proportions;" |
| Daniel Barenboim ( AR ) | "A person with deep musical and humanitarian commitment who has distinguished himself as one of the great musicians of our time." | ||
| 2005 | architecture | Jean Nouvel ( FR ) | "For providing a new form of contextualism and redefining the dialectic between the two salient features of contemporary architecture: representationalism and ephemerality" |
| 2006/07 | Painting u. sculpture |
Michelangelo Pistoletto ( IT ) | "For his always inventive path as an artist, educator and activist, whose restless spirit foreknowingly created forms of art that contribute to a new understanding of the world" |
| 2008 | music | Giya Kancheli ( GE ) | "One of the world's greatest contemporary composers, whose unique music is filled with unforgettable beauty" |
| Claudio Abbado ( IT ) | “One of the outstanding conductors in the world. An extraordinary person whose music creation is permeated with passion, spirit and love. " | ||
| 2010 | architecture | David Chipperfield ( GB ) | “For overseeing the reconstruction of Berlin's New Museum in a new building. It had been left to its own devices since World War II. " |
| Peter Eisenman ( US ) | "For the design of the Holocaust memorial in Berlin." |
2011-2020
| 2011 | Painting u. sculpture |
Rosemarie Trockel ( DE ) | "For your multidimensional art design." |
| 2012 | music | Plácido Domingo ( ES ) | "For being one of the greatest tenors of all time." |
| Simon Rattle ( GB ) | "For being one of the leading international conductors of our time." | ||
| 2013 | architecture | Eduardo Souto de Moura ( P ) | "For promoting the strength and ideas of architecture." |
| 2014 | sculpture | Ólafur Elíasson ( DK ) | "For the connection between science and art that triggers moments of individual and collective revelation" |
| 2015 | music | Jessye Norman ( US ) | is considered to be one of the most important opera and lied singers today. |
| Murray Perahia ( US ) / ( ISR ) | as an important pianist and for his Bach interpretations. | ||
| 2016 | architecture | Phyllis Lambert ( CAN ) | for their active participation in the realization of promising, innovative buildings, exemplary urban renovation projects and leading architecture-related research institutes. |
| 2017 | Painting u. sculpture |
Laurie Anderson ( US ) | for being "radical avant-garde artists" at the heart of their work and an inspiration for future artists. |
| Lawrence Weiner ( US ) | for being "radical avant-garde artists" at the heart of their work and an inspiration for future artists. | ||
| 2018 | music | Paul McCartney ( GB ) | for being one of the greatest songwriters of all time. |
| Ádám Fischer ( Hungary ) | for his work as a conductor of the Vienna State Opera, the Düsseldorf Symphony Orchestra, the Danish National Chamber Orchestra, the Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra and many others, as well as for his political activism. | ||
| 2019 | architecture | Moshe Safdie ( ISR ) | for works of great originality and craftsmanship that he has produced in the field of architecture and urban planning. |
| 2020 | painting | Cindy Sherman ( USA ) | for redefining the concept of art with a camera. |
Web links
- Wolf Foundation
- Wolf Prize 2015
- Wolf Prize 2016
- Wolf Prize 2017
- Wolf Prize 2018
- Wolf Prize 2019
- Wolf Prize in Architecture - 2019
- Wolf Prize 2020
Individual evidence
- ↑ tagesspiegel.de: News in brief and cultural news (May 5, 1999) accessed on September 30, 2015