The Edwin Scharff Prize (german: Edwin-Scharff-Preis) has been awarded annually by the city of

Hamburg Hamburg (, ; nds, label=Hamburg German, Low Saxon, Hamborg ), officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg (german: Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg; nds, label=Low Saxon, Friee un Hansestadt Hamborg),. is the List of cities in Germany by popul ...

since 1955, named after sculptor

Edwin Scharff Edwin Scharff (21 March 1887 – 18 May 1955) was a German sculptor. He was born in Neu-Ulm and died in Hamburg. Biography Scharff attended the Kunstgewerbeschule (1902–03) in Munich and studied painting at the Akademie der Bildende ...

. The prize is awarded to artist who shaped the cultural life of Hamburg. The winners are chosen by a seven-member jury, which is appointed by the Senate. The prize money is €15,000.

List of recipients

* 1955 Erich Hartmann and Hans Martin Ruwoldt * 1956 Arnold Fiedler and Fritz Husmann * 1957 Karl Kluth and Herbert Spangenberg * 1958 Fritz Kronenberg and Richard Steffen * 1959

Willem Grimm Willem () is a Dutch and West FrisianRienk de Haan, ''Fryske Foarnammen'', Leeuwarden, 2002 (Friese Pers Boekerij), , p. 158. masculine given name. The name is Germanic, and can be seen as the Dutch equivalent of the name William in English, ...

and Eylert Spars * 1960 Tom Hops and Martin Irwahn * 1961 Fritz Flinte and Karl August Ohrt * 1962 Ivo Hauptmann and

Alfred Mahlau Alfred Mahlau (21 June 1894 – 22 January 1967) German painter, illustrator and teacher. Biography Alfred Mahlau was born in Berlin on 21 June 1894. He was best known for his graphical work and illustrations, and for the large stained glass ...

* 1963 Joachim Albrecht and Ursula Querner * 1964 Werner Reichold and Gustav Seitz * 1965

Horst Janssen Horst Janssen (14 November 192931 August 1995) was a German draftsman, printmaker, poster artist and illustrator. He had a prolific output of drawings, etchings, woodcuts, lithographs and wood engravings. Janssen was a student of Alfred Mahla ...

and Paul Wunderlich * 1966

Fritz Fleer Fritz originated as a German nickname for Friedrich, or Frederick (''Der Alte Fritz'', and ''Stary Fryc'' were common nicknames for King Frederick II of Prussia and Frederick III, German Emperor) as well as for similar names including Fridolin ...

and Hans Sperschneider * 1967 Friedrich Ahlers-Hestermann * 1968 Gisela Bührmann and

Diether Kressel Diether is a German given name, composed of the elements '' diet'' "people" and ''her'' "army". It is distinct from, but in Modern German has become homophonic with, the name Dieter, which is a short form of Dietrich, composed of the same prefix ...

* 1969 Volker Detlef Heydorn and Hans Kock * 1970

Werner Bunz Werner may refer to: People * Werner (name), origin of the name and people with this name as surname and given name Fictional characters * Werner (comics), a German comic book character * Werner Von Croy, a fictional character in the ''Tomb Ra ...

and Harald Duwe * 1971 Knud Knabe and

Jörn Pfab Jörn is a locality situated in Skellefteå Municipality, Västerbotten County, Sweden with 797 inhabitants in 2010. Vladimir Lenin made his last stop in Sweden at the railway station Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a mean ...

* 1972

Armin Sandig Armin (Armyn) is a given name or surname, and is: * An ancient Indo-European name: ** a German/Dutch given name, *** a modern form of the name Arminius (18/17 BC–AD 21), a German prince who defeated a Roman army in the Battle of the Teutoburg F ...

and Manfred Sihle-Wissel * 1973 Volker Meier and Hans Hermann Steffens * 1974 Almut Heise and Karin Witte * 1975 Edgar Augustin and

Anna Oppermann Anna may refer to: People Surname and given name * Anna (name) Mononym * Anna the Prophetess, in the Gospel of Luke * Anna (wife of Artabasdos) (fl. 715–773) * Anna (daughter of Boris I) (9th–10th century) * Anna (Anisia) (fl. 1218 to 1221) ...

* 1976 Ingrid Webendoerfer and Wilhelm M. Busch * 1977 Kai Sudeck * 1978 no recipient * 1979 Dieter Glasmacher * 1980 Detlef Birgfeld * 1981 Christa Lühtje and Holger Matthies * 1982 Klaus Kröger * 1983 Ulrich Rückriem * 1984 Claus Böhmler * 1985

Hanne Darboven Hanne Darboven (29 April 1941 – 9 March 2009) was a German conceptual artist, best known for her large-scale minimalist installations consisting of handwritten tables of numbers. Early life and career Darboven was born in 1941 in Munich. She g ...

* 1986

Gudrun Piper Gudrun ( ; non, Guðrún) or Kriemhild ( ; gmh, Kriemhilt) is the wife of Sigurd, Sigurd/Siegfried and a major figure in Germanic heroic legend and literature. She is believed to have her origins in Ildico, last wife of Attila the Hun, and ...

and Max Hermann Mahlmann * 1987 Jan Meyer Rogge * 1988 Gustav Kluge * 1989 Franz Erhard Walther * 1990 Stanley Brouwn * 1993 Jürgen Bordanowicz * 1994 Rolf Rose * 1995 Hyun-Sook Song * 1996

Anna and Bernhard Blume Anna Blume (née Helming; 21 April 1936 18 June 2020) and Bernhard Johannes Blume (8 September 19371 September 2011) were German art photographers. They created sequences of large black-and-white photos of staged scenes in which they appeared ...

* 1997 Klaus Kumrow * 1998

Andreas Slominski Andreas ( el, Ἀνδρέας) is a name usually given to males in Austria, Greece, Cyprus, Denmark, Armenia, Estonia, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Finland, Flanders, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, Romania, the Netherlands, and Indonesia. The name ...

* 1999 Gisela Bullacher * 2000 Nicola Torke * 2001 Bogomir Ecker * 2002 Wiebke Siem * 2003 Daniel Richter * 2004

Till Krause image:Geschiebemergel.JPG, Closeup of glacial till. Note that the larger grains (pebbles and gravel) in the till are completely surrounded by the matrix of finer material (silt and sand), and this characteristic, known as ''matrix support'', is d ...

* 2005 Jochen Lempert * 2006 Michael Dörner * 2007 Anna Gudjónsdóttir * 2008

Jeanne Faust Jeanne may refer to: Places * Jeanne (crater), on Venus People * Jeanne (given name) * Joan of Arc (Jeanne d'Arc, 1412–1431) * Joanna of Flanders (1295–1374) * Joan, Duchess of Brittany (1319–1384) * Ruth Stuber Jeanne (1910–2004), Ame ...

* 2009 Linda McCue * 2010 Frank Gerritz * 2011 Peter Piller * 2012 "Ort des Gegen e.V." in honor of Annette Wehrmann * 2013 Gunter Reski * 2014 Christoph Schäfer * 2015 Stefan Kern * 2016 Silke Grossmann * 2017 Thomas Baldischwyler * 2018 Michaela Melián * 2019 Alexander Rischer * 2020 Jochen Schmith * 2021 Nana Petzet

References

External links

* German awards {{award-stub