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The August Macke Prize, named after the painter August Macke

August Macke

August Macke was one of the leading members of the German Expressionist group Der Blaue Reiter . He lived during a particularly innovative time for German art which saw the development of the main German Expressionist movements as well as the arrival of the successive avant-garde movements which...

, was given the first time in 1959 by the districts Arnsberg

Arnsberg

Arnsberg is a town in the Hochsauerland district, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is the location of the Regierungsbezirk Arnsberg's administration and one of the three local administration offices of the Hochsauerlandkreis.-Geography:...

, Brilon

Brilon

Brilon is a town in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, that belongs to the Hochsauerlandkreis.- Geography :Brilon is situated on the Brilon Heights at an altitude of about 450 m on the upper reaches of the river Möhne...

, Meschede

Meschede

Meschede is a town in the Hochsauerland district, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is the capital of the district Hochsauerlandkreis.-Geography:Meschede is situated in the Ruhr valley, near to the Hennesee, south of the nature-park Arnsberger Wald...

and Olpe

Olpe, Germany

Olpe is situated in the foothills of the Ebbegebirge in North Rhine-Westphalia, roughly 60 km east of Cologne and 20 km northwest of Siegen. It is part of the Regierungsbezirk of Arnsberg and is the seat of the district of Olpe.- Location :...

in the region of the Hochsauerland

Hochsauerland

Hochsauerlandkreis is a Kreis in the east of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Neighboring districts are Soest, Paderborn, Höxter, Waldeck-Frankenberg, Siegen-Wittgenstein, Olpe, Märkischer Kreis.- History :...

, Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

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With the award

Award

An award is something given to a person or a group of people to recognize excellence in a certain field; a certificate of excellence. Awards are often signifiedby trophies, titles, certificates, commemorative plaques, medals, badges, pins, or ribbons...

the recipients get the offer to show their works in museum show in Arnsberg

Arnsberg

and get a monetary prize of 20,000 €.

Recipients

2008: Leiko Ikemura
Leiko Ikemura
is a Japanese-Swiss painter and sculptor.-Biography:Leiko Ikemura left her country to study in Spain from 1973 to 1978 at the Academia de Bellas Artes in Granada and Seville. In 1979, Ikemura moved to Zurich to live and worked there for 4 years. The first of her mature paintings developed around 1980...
2005: Matthias Weischer
Matthias Weischer
Matthias Weischer is a painter living in Leipzig. Weischer is considered to be part of the New Leipzig School.- Life :...
2000: Ansgar Nierhoff
1996: Heribert Friedland
1993: Herbert Bardenheuer
1990: Fujio Akai
1987: Gotthard Graubner
Gotthard Graubner
Gotthard Graubner is a German painter. He was born in Erlbach, in Saxony, studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin, the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts and the Academy of Arts in Düsseldorf, before becoming a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Hamburg, in 1969...
1984: Günter Ferdinand Ris
1981: Monika Hollekamp
1978: Emil Schumacher
Emil Schumacher
Emil Schumacher German painter, important representative of abstract expressionism in post-war Germany....
1975: Bernd Bohmeier, Theo Lambertin
1969: Christine Bandau, Ruth Hoffmann und Claus Harnischmacher
1964: Christa Biederbick
1959: Carl Josef Hoffmann, Gebhard Schwermer

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