Lower Saxony Sparkasse Foundation

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Lower Saxony Sparkasse Foundation
Legal form: Foundation under civil law
Purpose: Promotion of fine arts , music , museums and monument preservation in Lower Saxony
Chair: Board of Directors: Thomas Mang, Bernhard Reuter , Ludwig Momann, Thomas S. Bürkle, Boris Pistorius , Friedrich von Lenthe
Managing directors: Johannes Janssen (foundation director), Martina Fragge (deputy managing director)
Consist: since 1985
Founder: Lower Saxony savings banks , Norddeutsche Landesbank
Foundation capital: approx. EUR 27.8 million (as of 12/2014)
Seat: Schiffgraben 6-8 , 30159 Hanover
Website: nsks.de

The Niedersächsische Sparkassenstiftung in Hanover is a foundation for the promotion of the fine arts , music , museums and monument preservation in Lower Saxony . With a foundation capital of around 27.8 million euros and around 3.5 million euros in funding annually, the institution, which cooperates with the VGH Foundation and operates joint management , is one of the largest cultural foundations in northern Germany . She owns a large collection of contemporary art and has initiated a number of her own prizes and events such as the Lower Saxony Music Days .

history

The foundation was established in 1985 by the Lower Saxony savings banks and the Norddeutsche Landesbank . Right from the start, it was sponsored by the Lower Saxony Savings Banks Association . The Low German language is also one of the funding objectives .

Since 2000, when VGH Versicherungen founded the VGH Foundation on the occasion of the 250th anniversary , the two foundations have been managed jointly.

activities

In 2008, the foundation built up its own art collection with more than 1200 works by contemporary artists. Some of the pieces are presented in traveling exhibitions or as loans to museums in Lower Saxony.

Since 1991, the Sprengel Prize for Fine Art (endowed with € 12,500), originally donated by the art patron Bernhard Sprengel in 1979, has been awarded annually. The Kurt Schwitters Prize was added in 1995 , so that the two awards now alternate every two years.

The Niedersächsische Sparkassenstiftung organizes the Low German Reading Competition every two years and awards the Lüttjepütt Prize and the Quickborn Prize for services to the Low German language as well as the Hans Henning Holm Prize for achievements in the field of Low German radio play.

Every two years from 1986 to 2018, the Foundation awarded the Monument Preservation Prize, which honored the charitable commitment of private monument owners.

The foundation has been running the hbs culture fund since 2014 as the successor to the hbs culture foundation established in 1998 . Every two years, on the recommendation of a jury, it awards a museum prize worth 15,000 euros.

Publications (selection)

  • Heinz Liesbrock: Current trends. Contemporary art from the collection of the Lower Saxony Sparkasse Foundation, overwhelmingly ill. Catalog, publisher: Niedersächsische Sparkassenstiftung, Hanover, 1996
  • Martina Fragge, Jennifer Horstmann (Red.): 20 years of the Lower Saxony Sparkasse Foundation . Balance sheet , ed. from the Niedersächsische Sparkassenstiftung, Hanover: Niedersächsische Sparkassenstiftung, 2005; in this:
    • CD by Dirk Liebenow, Arne Meyer: Our theme , program recording of the television program NDR 1 Lower Saxony from August 18, 2005

literature

  • Theda Minte: Lower Saxony Sparkasse Foundation. In: donate support design. Guide to foundations in Hanover , ed. from the Lord Mayor's Office - Fundamental Matters - in cooperation with the Hannover Foundation, updated new edition, Hannover: November 2007, p. 95
  • Rainer Ertel : Lower Saxony Sparkasse Foundation. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 473f.

Web links

Commons : Niedersächsische Sparkassenstiftung  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Funding concept of the Niedersächsische Sparkassenstiftung, 2020 (PDF).
  2. ↑ About us. Niedersächsische Sparkassenstiftung, accessed on February 29, 2020.
  3. ^ Sprengel Prize for Fine Art from the Lower Saxony Sparkasse Foundation. Kulturpreise.de portal , accessed on November 22, 2016.
  4. ↑ Price for monument preservation. Niedersächsische Sparkassenstiftung, accessed on February 29, 2010.
  5. ↑ To the hbs culture fund. City of Osnabrück, August 3, 2020, accessed on August 12, 2020 .

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