Premio Faenza
Award
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The Premio Faenza is an international prize for Premio Faenza Awarded for contemporary ceramic art Date 1938 Location Faenza Country Italy Presented by Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche in Faenza Winners Full list of recipients[1] Website www.premiofaenza.it contemporary ceramic art. It is awarded by the Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche in Faenza at Faenza, in Emilia-Romagna in northern Italy, and is the principal Italian prize of its kind.[2]: 47
| Premio Faenza | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | contemporary ceramic art |
| Date | 1938 |
| Location | Faenza |
| Country | Italy |
| Presented by | Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche in Faenza |
| Winners | Full list of recipients[1]
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| Website | www |
History
The prize was established in 1931. In 1938 it became an annual national award and was named "Premio Faenza".[3]: 48 The first recipient of the Premio Faenza was Pietro Melandri, who also won it in the following year.[4]: 284 The award was not made in some years of the Second World War, and recommenced in 1946. In 1963 it became international in scope – although several foreign artists had already been invited to participate in earlier editions – and from 1989 it became a biennial award.[3]: 48 [4]: 284
Recipients
Among the recipients of the award are the sculptors Angelo Biancini (1946, 1957), Leoncillo Leonardi (1954, 1964) and Carlo Zauli (1953, 1958 and 1962),[5]: 17 and the ceramic artists Sueharu Fukami (1985) and Ken Eastman (1995).[1]