Käthe Kollwitz Prize

The Käthe Kollwitz Prize is an award in Germany and named after the artist Käthe Kollwitz Art Prize.

The 1960 founded by the former Academy of Arts of the German Democratic Republic award is presented annually by the Academy of Arts ( Berlin) awarded to a visual artist, who is honored for a work or his oeuvre. The prize is awarded by a jury whose members are newly diagnosed each year. The award also an exhibition in the building of the Academy is connected. Since 1992, the prize money in the amount of 12,000 euros (as of 2009 ) of the Cologne District Savings Bank, the wearer of the Käthe Kollwitz Museum in Cologne, co-financed.

Award winners

• 2014 Corinne Wasmuth
• 2012 Douglas Gordon
• 2011 Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller
• 2010 Mona Hatoum
• 2009 Ulrike Grossarth
• 2008 Gustav Kluge
• 2007 Hede Bühl
• 2006 Thomas Eller
• 2005 Lutz Dammbeck
• 2004 Peter Weibel
• 2003 Horst Münch
• 2002 Renate Anger
• 2001 Jürgen Schön
• 2000 Svetlana Kopystiansky
• 1999 Mark Lammert
• 1998 Miriam Cahn
• 1997 Astrid Klein
• 1996 Martin Kippenberger
• 1995 Micha Ullman
• 1994 Karla Woisnitza
• 1993 Martin Assig
• 1992 Lothar Böhme
• 1991 Manfred Butzmann
• 1990 Konrad Knebel
• 1989 Claus Weidensdorfer
• 1988 Christa collectors
• 1987 Max Uhlig
• 1986 Gerhard Goßmann
• 1985 Joachim John
• 1984 Manfred Böttcher
• 1983 Sabina Grzimek
• 1982 Hans Vent
• 1981 Elizabeth Shaw
• 1980 Tübke
• 1979 Wilfried Fitzenreiter
• 1978 Dieter Goltzsche
• 1977 Horst Zickelbein
• 1976 Harald Metzkes
• 1975 Werner Stötzer
• 1974 Wieland Förster
• 1973 René Graetz
• 1972 Herbert Sandberg
• 1971 Curt Querner
• 1970 Gerhard Kettner
• 1969 Theo Balden
• 1968 Willi Sitte
• 1967 Otto Nagel
• 1966 Fritz Dähn
• 1965 Fritz Duda
• 1964 Herbert Tucholsky
• 1962 Sella Hasse
• 1961 Arno Mohr
• 1960 Karl Erich Müller