Rubens Prize

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The Rubens Prize of the City of Siegen is awarded every five years to a painter or graphic artist who has demonstrated a pioneering life's work in European art. The award commemorates the painter-diplomat Peter Paul Rubens , who expressed the idea of ​​European unification in his life's work long before it could become a political reality. Peter Paul Rubens - born in Siegen, grew up in Cologne and Antwerp , had an artistic education in Italy , was appreciated in France , worked as a diplomat in Spain and England - as the main master of European baroque painting, set the artistic and European standards that the awarding of the prize met has been committed since 1957/58. The prize was originally endowed with 10,000 DM, since the changeover to the euro with 5200 €.

Previous winners

The Rubens Prize of the City of Siegen

The Rubens Prize Promotion Prize was founded by the City of Siegen in 1980 to promote young artists and is awarded every five years. It is endowed with € 2,600 and associated with an exhibition and a catalog. The award winners are awarded by a newly constituting, independent five-member jury composed of people from art criticism, museums, teaching and the visual arts. Each juror suggests up to three artistic personalities, after discussion and voting the decision is made.

The previous winners are: Max Neumann (1984), Julia Lohmann (1989), Karin Sander (1994), Silke Rehberg (1999), Peter Piller (2004), Diango Hernández (2009), Vajiko Chachkhiani (2014) and Lena Henke ( 2018).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.siegen.de/willkommen/detailansicht-news/news/13-rubenspreistraeger-der-stadt-siegen-heisst-niele-toroni/
  2. ^ City of Siegen: The 12th Rubens Prize of the City of Siegen goes to Bridget Riley! Retrieved on November 7, 2011 (German).
  3. ↑ https://www.siegen.de/willkommen/detailansicht-news/news/8-foerderpreis-zum-rubenspreis- geht-an-lena-henke /