Villa Romana Prize


The Villa Romana Prize,, is an art prize awarded by the Deutscher Künstlerbund. It was established in 1905 and is the oldest German art award. The prize consists of a one-year artistic residence in the Villa Romana, a nineteenth-century villa on the Via Senese in the southern outskirts of Florence, in Tuscany in central Italy.
Max Klinger, who in 1903 had become vice-president of the Deutscher Künstlerbund, established the Villa Romana as a study centre for artists in 1905. He had bought it that year for 60,000 gold lire. The prize was first awarded in that year also.
Among the many recipients of the award are Max Beckmann, Ernst Barlach, Joseph Fassbender, Gerhard Marcks,, Walter Stöhrer, and Georg Baselitz.

Recipients

1905 to 1914

1928 to 1943

  • 1928: Gerhard Marcks
  • 1929: Joseph Fassbender
  • 1930: Josef Henselmann
  • 1931:
  • 1932:
  • 1933: John Sass
  • 1934:
  • 1935:, William Maly
  • 1936: Emy Roeder, Arthur Degner
  • 1937: Toni Stadler
  • 1938: Helmut Ruhmer
  • 1939: Fritz Bernuth
  • 1940: Rudolf Riester
  • 1941: Hans Breker, Karl Clobes, Walter Rossler
  • 1942: Oscar Kreibich, Hubert Nikolaus Lang, Karl Paul, Egon Schiffers
  • 1943: Wilhelm Hausmann, Kurt Lambert, Walter Wichmann

From 1959