Max Beckmann Prize
Frankfurt's Mayor Petra Roth (left) at the award ceremony for Barbara Klemm (right) in 2010
The Max Beckmann Prize of the City of Frankfurt am Main has been awarded every three years since 1978. It is awarded for outstanding achievements in painting , graphics , sculpture or architecture and is endowed with 50,000 euros.
The award commemorates the artist Max Beckmann , who lived in Frankfurt from 1915 until he was expelled from there in 1933. It is awarded on February 12th, Max Beckmann's birthday. Prize winners do not have to have an artistic relationship with Beckmann.
Award winners
- 1978 Richard Oelze , painter
- 1981 Arnulf Rainer , painter
- 1984 Willem de Kooning , painter
- 1987 Erwin Heerich and Walter Pichler , sculptors
- 1990 Bruce Nauman , video artist
- 1993 Ilya Kabakov , painter and multimedia artist
- 1996 Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron , architects
- 2001 Harald Szeemann , exhibition organizer
- 2004 Maria Lassnig , painter
- 2007 Richard Hamilton , painter and graphic artist
- 2010 Barbara Klemm , photographer
- 2013 Otto Piene , painter
- 2016 Agnès Varda , filmmaker
- 2019 Cindy Sherman , artist and photographer
Web links
Commons : Max Beckmann Prize - collection of images, videos and audio files
Individual evidence
- ↑ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , December 23, 2015, p. 9
- ↑ Max Beckmann Prize 2019
- ↑ US artist receives Frankfurt Max Beckmann Prize. Süddeutsche Zeitung , December 4, 2018, accessed on August 14, 2020 .