Grand Austrian State Prize

The Grand Austrian State Prize (German: Großer Österreichischer Staatspreis) is a decoration given annually by Austria to an artist for exceptional work.^[1] The recipient must be an Austrian citizen with a permanent residence in Austria.

It was originally created in 1950 by then education minister Felix Hurdes. The prize is given according to the recommendation by the Austrian Art Senate without a set rotation schedule for literature, music, visual art, or architecture. Since 2003 it has been endowed with a 30,000 euro prize. In the areas of film and artistic photography, the prize is awarded according to a jury and not the Art Senate.

Since 1971, the prize has been given to only one person a year, instead of sometimes given to multiple people in different categories.

Recipients

Literature

1950 Josef Leitgeb	1951 Felix Braun	1952 Martina Wied
1953 Rudolf Henz, Rudolf Kassner	1954 Max Mell	1955 Franz Theodor Csokor
1956 Franz Nabl	1957 Heimito von Doderer, Franz Karl Ginzkey	1958 Imma von Bodmershof
1959 Carl Zuckmayer	1961 Albert Paris Gütersloh, Alexander Lernet-Holenia	1962 George Saiko
1963 Kurt Frieberger	1964 Johannes Urzidil	1966 Fritz Hochwälder
1967 Elias Canetti	1968 Ingeborg Bachmann, Marlen Haushofer	1969 Christine Busta
1970 Christine Lavant	1972 Friedrich Heer	1974 H. C. Artmann
1977 Manès Sperber	1979 Friedrich Torberg	1982 Christin Karl
1984 Ernst Jandl	1987 Peter Handke	1989 Oswald Wiener
1991 Gerhard Rühm	1994 Wolfgang Bauer	1995 Ilse Aichinger
1998 Andreas Okopenko	2001 Gert Jonke	2007 Josef Winkler
2012 Peter Waterhouse	2018 Florjan Lipuš

Music

1950 Joseph Marx	1951 Egon Kornauth	1953 Paul Angerer, Johann Nepomuk David
1955 Josef Matthias Hauer	1956 Hans Erich Apostel, Otto Siegl [de]	1957 Hans Gál
1959 Theodor Berger, Alfred Uhl	1961 Egon Wellesz	1963 Ernst Krenek
1965 Gottfried von Einem	1966 Hanns Jelinek	1967 Karl Schiske
1968 Erich Marckhl	1969 Anton Heiller	1970 Marcel Rubin
1976 Cesar Bresgen	1981 Roman Haubenstock-Ramati	1986 Friedrich Cerha
1990 György Ligeti	1992 Kurt Schwertsik	2002 Heinz Karl Gruber[2]
2006 Georg Friedrich Haas	2010 Olga Neuwirth	2014 Beat Furrer
2019 Thomas Larcher

Visual Art

1951 Alfred Kubin	1952 Albert Paris Gütersloh	1954 Herbert Boeckl
1955 Oskar Kokoschka, Fritz Wotruba	1956 Alfred Wickenburg	1957 Karl Sterrer
1958 Toni Schneider-Manzell	1960 Max Weiler, Ferdinand Kitt	1962 Josef Dobrowsky
1963 Arnold Jakob Clementschitsch	1965 Sergius Pauser	1966 Hans Fronius
1968 Kurt Moldovan	1969 Rudolf Hoflehner	1973 Joannis Avramidis
1978 Arnulf Rainer	1980 Friedensreich Hundertwasser	1985 Walter Pichler
1988 Maria Lassnig	1993 Bruno Gironcoli	1996 Günter Brus
1997 Christian Ludwig Attersee	2003 Siegfried Anzinger	2005 Hermann Nitsch[3]
2008 Karl Prantl	2009 Brigitte Kowanz	2013 Erwin Wurm
2017 Renate Bertlmann	2021 Martha Jungwirth

Architecture

1950 Josef Hoffmann	1953 Clemens Holzmeister	1954 Max Fellerer
1958 Erich Boltenstern	1962 Roland Rainer	1965 Josef Frank
1967 Franz Schuster	1971 Gustav Peichl	1975 Karl Schwanzer
1983 Hans Hollein	1999 Coop Himmelb(l)au - Wolf D. Prix, Helmut Swiczinsky	2000 Wilhelm Holzbauer
2004 Günther Domenig	2011 Heinz Tesar	2015 Elke Delugan-Meissl and Roman Delugan
2020 Laurids Ortner and Manfred Ortner

Artistic Photography

1991 Inge Morath-Miller	1994 Franz Hubmann	1997 Erich Lessing
2001 Harry Weber	2005 Friedl Kubelka-Bondy	2009 Manfred Willmann
2013 Peter Dressler	2016 Margherita Spiluttini	2023 Aglaia Konrad

References

1. "Großer Österreichischer Staatspreis". Bundesministerium für Kunst, Kultur, öffentlichen Dienst und Sport – Startseite (in German). Archived from the original on 23 November 2021. Retrieved 12 November 2020.
2. ""Heinz Karl Gruber humorvoller, eigenwilliger, mitteleuropäischer Weltbürger und Eklektiker mit Bodenhaftung und Tiefgang"". OTS.at (in German). 5 March 2003. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
3. "Großer Österreichischer Staatspreis 2005 an Hermann Nitsch". OTS.at (in German). 5 October 2005. Retrieved 12 November 2021.

External links

• Official website