The Cologne Fine Art Award (German: Cologne-Fine-Art-Preis) was awarded annually as part of the art exposition

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. It was awarded by the

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Company (Kölner Messegesellschaft Köln Messe) and the Federal Association of German Art Publishers (Bundesverband Deutscher Kunstverleger e. V) . Eligible were reproducible works, such as art printing or photography. The prize consisted of 10,000 euros and a special exposition within the ART Cologne.

Recipients

Source: * 1996 * 1997

Ottmar Hörl Ottmar Hörl (born 1950 in Nauheim, Germany) is a German conceptual artist, sculptor, installation, action, photography, and object artist. He achieved worldwide popularity due to his radical, avant-garde art concepts as well as large-scale proj ...

* 1998

Dieter Roth Dieter Roth (April 21, 1930 – June 5, 1998) was a Swiss artist who gained recognition for his diverse body of work, which included artist's books, editioned prints, sculpture, and creations from found materials, including rotting foodstuffs. ...

* 1999

Thomas Huber Thomas Huber (born 18 November 1966) is a German rock climber (and especially big wall climbing) and mountaineering, mountaineer (and especially alpine climbing). He lives in Berchtesgaden with his family. His brother and regular climbing partne ...

* 2000

Thomas Bayrle Thomas Bayrle (born 7 November 1937) is a German sculptor, painter, graphic artist and video artist. He is known as a pop artist. Life Thomas Bayrle was born on 7 November 1937 in Berlin. He is the son of the painter and graphic artist Alf Ba ...

* 2001

Astrid Klein Astrid Klein (born 1951) is a German contemporary artist. Klein works in a variety of mediums including drawing, painting, text, photography and installation and sculpture. Biography Astrid Klein studied at the Academy of Art and Design in Colo ...

* 2002

Sigmar Polke Sigmar Polke (13 February 1941 – 10 June 2010) was a German painter and photographer. Polke experimented with a wide range of styles, subject matters and materials. In the 1970s, he concentrated on photography, returning to paint in the 1980s, ...

* 2003

Jörg Sasse Jörg Sasse (born Bad Salzuflen, 1962) is a German photographer. His work uses found images that are scanned, pixelated and manipulated. He lives and works in Berlin. In 2003 Sasse won the Cologne Fine Art Award and in 2005 was shortlisted for t ...

* 2004

Kupferstichkabinett Berlin The Kupferstichkabinett, or Museum of Prints and Drawings, is a Print room, prints museum in Berlin, Germany. It is part of the Berlin State Museums, and is located in the Kulturforum on Potsdamer Platz. It is the largest museum of graphic art ...

* 2005

Thomas Schütte Thomas Schütte (born 16 November 1954) is a German contemporary artist. He sculpts, creates architectural designs, and draws. He lives and works in Düsseldorf. Education From 1973 to 1981 Schütte studied art at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf ...

* 2006 * 2007 Gert & Uwe Tobias * 2008

Katharina Sieverding Katharina Sieverding (born 16 November 1941) is a German photographer known for her self-portraiture. Sieverding lives and works in Berlin and Düsseldorf. She is a professor emeritus at the University of the Arts, Berlin. Early life and educati ...

* 2009

Georg Baselitz Georg Baselitz (born 23 January 1938) is a German Painting, painter, Sculpture, sculptor and Graphic arts, graphic artist. In the 1960s he became well known for his Figurative art, figurative, expressive paintings. In 1969 he began painting his ...

* 2010 Andreas Schulze * 2011

Günther Uecker Günther Uecker (; 13 March 1930 – 10 June 2025) was a German painter, sculptor, op artist, and installation artist. He became known primarily for his nail reliefs. In 1961, Uecker joined the Zero (art), ZERO group. Early life and education ...

* 2012

Tony Cragg Sir Anthony Douglas Cragg (born Liverpool 9 April 1949) is an Anglo-German sculptor, resident in Wuppertal, Germany since 1977. Early life and training Tony Cragg was born in Liverpool."Tony Cragg." ''Contemporary Artists''. Farmington Hills, ...

* 2013

Jürgen Klauke Jürgen Klauke (born 6 September 1943) is a German artist. Beginning in the 1960s, he used his own body as a subject of his photographs. He also experimented with minimalism and surrealism. The ZKM in Karlsruhe exhibits his work.

* 2014

Leiko Ikemura is a Japanese-Swiss artist who works in a variety of mediums, including oil painting, sculpture, and watercolor. She divides her time between Cologne and Berlin, teaching painting at the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin. Active on the internat ...

* 2015

Candida Höfer Candida Höfer (born 4 February 1944) is a German photographer. She is a renowned photographer known for her exploration of public spaces and architecture. In her career she transitioned from portraiture to focusing on spaces like libraries and m ...

* 2016 * 2017 * 2018

Horst Antes Horst Antes (born 28 October 1936 Heppenheim, Germany) is a German artist and sculptor. Early life and education After his Abitur, he studied from 1957 to 1959 under the important woodcutter HAP Grieshaber at the Akademie der Bildenden Kün ...

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Bundesverband Deutscher Kunstverleger e. V : GermanKöln Messe : German
German visual arts awards Awards established in 1996

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