Most beautiful books from all over the world

The exhibition “ Most Beautiful Books from All Over the World” documents book design and production from different cultures around the world and has been integrated into the Leipzig Book Fair since 1991 . It is organized by the Book Art Foundation in cooperation with the City of Leipzig .

The prizes awarded are a golden letter , a gold medal, two silver medals, five bronze medals and five honorary diplomas. The Golden Letter is a gold-plated Gutenberg A , which has been presented in a leather case by the Buchkunst Foundation since 1968 .

Grand Prize Golden Letter

• 2000 Dictionary of idioms for Karl Kraus ' magazine " Die Fackel " by Werner Welzig , Austria
• 2004 Rewind Forward by Olaf Nicolai, Susanne Pfleger (ed.), Germany
• 2005 Nihon no Kindai Katsuji from the Compilation Committee of "Nihon no Kindai Katsuji", Japan
• 2006 Jakob Demus. The Complete Graphic Work 1983-2005 by Ed de Heer (Ed.) , The Netherlands
• 2010 Elisabeth Hinrichs, Aileen Ittner, Daniel Rother: XX - The SS rune as a special character on typewriters. Institute for Book Art at the Leipzig School of Graphics and Book Art
• 2011 Malkit Shoshan: Atlas of the Conflict.
• 2012 JH Engström: La résidence.
• 2013 Hans-Jörg Pochmann: FALLEN
• 2014 Lisa Wenger, Martina Corgnati: Meret Oppenheim. Don't wrap words in poisonous letters
• 2015 Paul Elliman: Untitled (September Magazine) Paul Elliman, 2013
• 2016 Titus Knegtel: Other Evidence: Blindfold
• 2017 Anne Geene, Arjan de Nooy: Ornithology
• 2018 Uta Hassler (ed.): Heimat, Handwerk and the Utopia of the Everyday, Hirmer Verlag

Further winners of the Golden Letter

Albert Kapr , Werner Klemke , Jan Tschichold , Hellmuth Tschörtner , HAP Grieshaber , Elizabeth Shaw , Jiri Salamoun , Yü Bing-Nan , Kurt Löb , Kveta Pacovská , Irma Boom and Wolf Erlbruch

Other award winners

• 1970
  • Silver medal Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes , illustrations by Gerhard Oberländer , Germany
• 2004
  • Gold medal: A Picture Album - Historical Materials of Mei Lanfang's Theatrical Performances by Liu Cengfu Zhu Jiajin, China
  • Silver medal:
    • The Heart in Search of Beauty. An Exhibition Honoring the 100th Anniversary of Kobayashi Hideo's Birth by Hideo Kobayashi, Japan
    • Verzamelde poems by Pail Celan, Netherlands
  • Bronze medal:
    • Survival means of Armin Abmeier , Rotraut Susanne Berner , Germany
    • Workers' lyric 1842–1932 by Heinz Ludwig Arnold (Ed.), Germany
    • Symbiont of Denisa Myšková , Czech Republic
    • Biodiversidad en Venezuela: Fundación Polar by Marisol Aguilera , Aura Azócar , Eduardo González Jiménez (ed.), Venezuela
    • Piet Gerards, graphic ontwerper by Ben van Melick , Netherlands
• 2005
  • Gold medal: Globus Cassus by Christian Waldvogel , Switzerland
  • Silver medal
    • Freud's Missing Neighbors by Lydia Marinelli (Ed.), Austria
    • Maps of the Imagination: The Writer as Cartographer by Peter Turchi , USA
  • Bronze medal
    • Diary from 1954 by Alice Schmidt , Germany
    • Kanekosanchino Yukikateisaien by Yoshinori Kaneko , Japan
    • From Latvians to Rimini. The past and present of the lake and river baths in Zurich by Nina Chen , Switzerland
    • Anne Frank en familie , photos by Otto Frank, Netherlands
    • The Furniture Collection, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam by Luca Dosi Delfini , Netherlands
• 2006
  • Gold medal: Metropolitan World Atlas by Arien van Susteren , Netherlands
  • Silver medal: Ellen Gallagher. Blizzard of White from The Fruitmarket Gallery / Hauser & Wirth , Netherlands
  • Silver medal: strategies of the craft. Seven portraits of extraordinary projects in Europe Landscape of Knowledge (Ed.) , Austria
  • Bronze medal: Kekkonen by Matti Hagelberg , Finland
  • Bronze medal: Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam 2003/2004 , Stedelijk Museum , Netherlands
  • Bronze medal: Grandpa of Paul de Reus , Netherlands
  • Bronze medal: Wiel Arets. Living Library by Marijke Beek (Ed.) , The Netherlands
  • Bronze medal: Somewhere else is the same place. Monica Studer, Christoph van den Berg by Christoph Vögele (Ed.) , Switzerland
  • Honorary Diploma: Cao Xueqin's Art of Kite from Kong Xiangze, Kong Lingmin, Kong Bingzhang , China
  • Honorary diploma: Max Bill. Painter, sculptor, architect, designer by Thomas Buchsteiner , Otto Letze (Ed.), Hatje, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 978-3-7757-1641-3 , Germany
  • Honorary diploma: Broedplaats Europoort v / h “De Beer” by Paul Bogaers and others, Netherlands
  • Honorary Degree: Russian Illustrated Magazine. 1703–1941 by Irina Mokhnacheva , Russia
  • Honorary diploma: Pohádky by Hermann Hesse , Argo, Praha 2004, ISBN 80-7203-587-8 , Czech Republic

See also

• Most beautiful book in Austria
• The most beautiful Swiss books

literature

• Leaflets (of the respective years) from the Buchkunst Foundation, Frankfurt am Main and Leipzig

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Award at the Leipzig Book Fair: Golden Letter for book from the HGB ( Memento from March 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Leipziger Internet Zeitung, February 28, 2010 (archived website). Details about the book: see the archived website of the Institute for Book Art.
2. ↑ Website for the book Atlas of the Conflict (English)
3. ↑ Most beautiful book in the world comes from Denmark focus.de, March 16, 2012
4. ↑ Video and explanation of the book FALLEN on Vimeo
5. ↑ Book Art Foundation. Retrieved January 1, 2019 . 
6. ↑ Book Art Foundation. Retrieved January 1, 2019 . 
7. ↑ Book Art Foundation. Retrieved January 1, 2019 . 
8. ↑ Book Art Foundation. Retrieved January 1, 2019 . 
9. ↑ Hirmer book wins Golden Letter , boersenblatt.net, published and accessed on March 5, 2018