page_title: Käthe Kollwitz Prize
hierarchical_section_title: Käthe Kollwitz Prize
caption_attribution_description: For documentary purposes the German Federal Archive often retained the original image captions, which may be erroneous, biased, obsolete or politically extreme. Zentralbild-Sturm St. 28.11.68 Berlin: Prof. Willi Sitte mit dem Käthe-Kollwitz-Preis ausgezeichnet. Der Hallenser Maler und Grafiker Prof. Willi Sitte wurde am 28.11.68 mit dem Käthe-Kollwitz-Preis 1968 der Deutschen Akademie der Künste ausgezeichnet. Ein Toast nach der feierlichen Verleihung des Preises durch den Sekretär der Sektion Bildende Kunst der Akademie der Künste, Prof. Werner Klemke (links) an Prof. Willi Sitte (rechts). (Mitte) Nationalpreisträger Kurt Schwaen, Komponist. Die Auszeichnung fand in den Räumen der Akademie am Robert-Koch-Platz statt.
context_page_description: The Käthe Kollwitz Prize is a German art award named after artist Käthe Kollwitz.
  Established in 1960 by the then-Academy of Arts of the German Democratic Republic, the prize is awarded annually by a jury whose members are newly chosen each year to a visual artist living and working in Germany who is honored either for a single work or their complete body of work. Since 1992, the prize money has been co-funded by the Kreissparkasse Köln, the owner of the Käthe Kollwitz Museum in Cologne. The Academy organises a parallel exhibition, accompanied by a catalog, for the laureate.
context_section_description: The Käthe Kollwitz Prize (German: Käthe-Kollwitz-Preis) is a German art award named after artist Käthe Kollwitz.
  Established in 1960 by the then-Academy of Arts of the German Democratic Republic (nowadays the Academy of Arts, Berlin), the prize is awarded annually by a jury whose members are newly chosen each year to a visual artist living and working in Germany who is honored either for a single work or their complete body of work. Since 1992, the prize money (12,000 euros as of 2009) has been co-funded by the Kreissparkasse Köln, the owner of the Käthe Kollwitz Museum in Cologne. The Academy organises a parallel exhibition, accompanied by a catalog, for the laureate.
caption: Käthe Kollwitz Prize winner Willi Sitte (right), toasts with Werner Klemke (left), and Kurt Schwaen (centre) in 1968.
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