Otmar Alt Foundation

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Otmar Alt Foundation
Legal form: Foundation under civil law
Purpose: Promotion of young artists and the preservation of Otmar Alt's artistic legacy for the general public.
Chair: Otmar Alt
Franz Beckschäfer
Franz Arnold Thüning
Board of Trustees: Ulrike Brille, Diana Lenz-Weber, Edith Weerd, Reiner Meyer, Johanna von Bistram
Consist: since January 22, 1992
Founder: Otmar Alt
Seat: Hamm
Website: www.otmar-alt.de
Partial view of a sculpture by Otmar Alt

The Otmar-Alt-Stiftung is a foundation based in Hamm and was on 11 December 1991 by the artist Otmar Alt launched to young, talented artists in the field of visual and performing arts , the music and the literature to promote . The beginning of the professional life should be made easier for the young artists and given a suitable forum for the presentation of their own works.

Foundation purpose

For this purpose, his entire artistic life's work has flowed into the foundation and is therefore accessible to the general public on the foundation's premises in Norddinker near Hamm in Westphalia.

The foundation promotes young talent from the fields of visual arts, music, literature and creative art by awarding half-yearly grants and by providing a forum for the presentation of their works. A sponsorship prize is awarded, and the foundation works on the work of Otmar Alt in an art-scientific way. The area is made available for cultural events.

Terrain and structures

The area already covers 10,000 square meters with a historic rural property from the 17th century, which has been restored and expanded in style. Here atelier and lounges were created for scholarship holders and an opportunity for art-historical processing of Otmar Alt's works. A large garden with sculptures by numerous artists, an amphitheater and a pond complete the overall picture.

Culture award

Since 2002, the Otmar Alt Foundation has been awarding the cultural prize every two years to people who have done a great deal of work for the common good. Associated with this sponsorship award is prize money that must go to a charitable cause.

Previous winners are the pianist Marjana Plotkina (née Lisnyk), the Bremen Musical Company (2004), Peter Maffay (2007), Alfred Biolek (2010), Volker Schlöndorff (2012) and Leonard Lansink (2014).

Previous scholarship holders

  • 1996: Henry Puchert, painter, Dresden
  • 1997: Jaques Thibeaud Trio, three musicians, Essen / Berlin
  • 1998/99: Andreas Kunstein, composer, Rotterdam
  • 1999/00: Felicitas Aga, painter, London / Kronach
  • 2000/01: Anina Gröger, painter, Basel / Pforzheim
  • 2002: Stefan Lausch, painter, Düsseldorf
  • 2003: Florian Benet-Riedel, sculptor / painter, Barcelona
  • 2004/05: Sandra Zarth, concept artist, Düsseldorf
  • 2005/06: Kathrin Kleeberg, costume designer, Gera / Berlin
  • 2007: Uli Haller, light artist / photographer, Dortmund
  • 2008: Martin Sander, painter, Offenburg
  • 2009: Anno Weihs, object artist, Menden
  • 2010: Wolf Bertram Becker, painter, Weimar
  • 2011: Gerd Kanz, painter / object artist, Untermerzbach
  • 2012: Lea Rochus, painter, Hamburg
  • 2014: Andreas Fischbach, painter and video artist, Berlin
  • 2015: Welf Schiefer, painter and etcher, Hamburg
  • 2016: Katharina Meister, freelance artist, Margaret River WA / Karlsruhe
  • 2017: Anja Warzecha, freelance artist, Halle (Saale)
  • 2018: Jungmin Park, painter, Seoul / Munich
  • 2019: Malte Frey, painter, Münster

reception

Allegedly because of "financial bottlenecks" on the part of the foundation, there should be no scholarship holders in 2013, and no culture prize was awarded either. The fact that no scholarship was awarded is said to have been due to the lack of a suitable candidate and the culture prize is only awarded every two years. In 2014 Leonard Lansink received a scholarship and the culture prize again .

Because of the financial problems and the decline in the number of members (from well over 1,000 to around 500), the foundation's board of directors was considering changing the statutes in order to orientate itself culturally somewhat differently. One focus should be placed on the acquisition of new members. A change to the statutes was rejected by the foundation advisory board.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Otmar-Alt-Stiftung - Public Directory of Foundations, Darmstadt Regional Council ( Memento from February 3, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ^ A b Otmar Alt Foundation In: im.nrw , Ministry of the Interior of North Rhine-Westphalia, accessed on September 12, 2019.
  3. ↑ Foundation organs , accessed on February 2, 2017.
  4. ↑ a b c Otmar Alt Foundation. (No longer available online.) Foundation supervision of the city of Frankfurt, archived from the original on February 1, 2017 ; accessed on September 12, 2019 .
  5. ↑ a b c Alfred Biolek receives culture award. In: Bockow press work. March 3, 2010, accessed February 2, 2017.
  6. ↑ Maffay excellent. In: bz-berlin.de , September 25, 2007, accessed on February 2, 2017.
  7. ↑ Volker Schlöndorff receives culture award from the Otmar Alt Foundation. In: wa.de , January 18, 2012, accessed on February 2, 2017.
  8. ↑ Culture Prize of the Otmar Alt Foundation for “Wilsberg”. In: wa.de , February 12, 2014, accessed on February 2, 2017.
  9. ↑ List of previous scholarship holders of the Otmat Alt Foundation (1996–2015) ( Memento from May 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  10. ↑ Scholarship holder 2016 - Katharina Meister. December 17, 2016, accessed February 1, 2017.
  11. ↑ Scholarship 2017 - Anja Warzecha. In: otmar-alt.de. April 21, 2017. Retrieved June 13, 2017 .
  12. ↑ Exhibition opening Jungmin Park - Exploration | Otmar Alt Foundation In: otmar-alt.de , accessed on September 12, 2019.
  13. ↑ Sarah Hanke, Reiner Meyer: The new scholarship holder and a review of previous scholarship holders. (PDF; 1 MB) In: otmar-alt.de. 2019, accessed on February 20, 2020 (Instigator No. 79).
  14. ^ A b Otmar Alt Foundation before reorganization. In: wa.de , December 15, 2012, accessed on February 1, 2017.
  15. ↑ a b Otmar Alt Foundation "releases" board. In: wa.de , December 20, 2012, accessed on February 1, 2017.
  16. ↑ Culture Prize of the Otmar Alt Foundation for “Wilsberg”. In: wa.de , February 12, 2014, accessed on February 1, 2017.