Wilhelm Loth Prize

The Wilhelm Loth Prize is an art prize awarded by the City of Darmstadt .

The award, originally referred to as the City of Darmstadt Art Prize , has been named after the Darmstadt-born sculptor Wilhelm Loth since 1995 . The first award took place in 1955 and took place annually until 2007. Since then, a new award winner has been appointed every two years. The prize is endowed with a monetary amount of 12,000 euros (as of 2012) and also includes a solo exhibition for which a catalog is being published.

Award winners

1955: Helmut Lortz and Wilhelm Loth 1956: Arthur Fauser 1957: Hans Mettel 1958: Peter Steinforth 1959: Ernst Hermanns 1960: Hann Trier 1961: HAP Grieshaber 1962: Michael Croissant 1963: Herbert Kitzel 1964: Horst Janssen 1965: Helga Föhl 1966: Bernard Schultze 1967: Antonio Segui 1968: Jean Ipoustéguy 1969: Werner Knaupp and Barbara Bredow 1970: Dieter Krieg 1971: Eberhard Schlotter 1972: Lothar Fischer 1973: Antonio López García 1974: Jorge Castillo 1975: Michael Schoenholtz 1976: Peter Ackermann 1977: Max G. Kaminski 1978: Hector McDonnell 1979: Klaus Fußmann 1980: Richard Hess 1981: Pierre Kröger 1982: Boris Zaborov

1983: Wolfgang Bier 1984: Roland Topor 1985: Azade Köker 1986: Jürgen Brodwolf 1987: Isabel Quintanilla 1988: Thomas Duttenhoefer 1989: Magdalena Jetelová 1990: Claudio Parmiggiani 1991: Henk Visch 1992: Jürgen Böttcher (Strawalde) 1993: Rebecca Horn 1994: Bruno Erdmann 1995: Marie Jo Lafontaine 1996: Olaf Metzel 1997: Vera Röhm 1998: Ottmar Hörl 1999: Lutz Brockhaus 2000: Annegret Soltau 2001: Horst Haack 2002: Johannes Grützke 2003: Andreas Gursky 2004: Matthias Will 2005: Gerd Winter 2007: Heribert C. Ottersbach 2009/10: Harun Farocki 2014 Gregor Schneider 2018 Olaf Nicolai

Remarks

1. ↑ 1969 no art prize was awarded, instead the two artists received a sponsorship prize

Web links

• Information on the Wilhelm Loth Prize at darmstadt.de