Villa Romana Prize

The Villa Romana Prize, German: Villa-Romana-Preis, is an art prize awarded by the Deutscher Künstlerbund. It was established in 1905 and is the oldest German art award.^[1] 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.^[2][3]

Awardedforannual award to visual artists

Date1905

LocationVilla Romana, Florence

CountryItaly

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Villa Romana Prize
Villa-Romana-Preis
The villa, seen from the Via Senese
Awarded for	annual award to visual artists
Date	1905
Location	Villa Romana, Florence
Country	Italy
Presented by	Deutscher Künstlerbund
Reward	one-year artistic residence
Website	villaromana.org

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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.^[4] He had bought it that year for 60,000 gold lire.^[5] The prize was first awarded in that year also.^[1]

Among the many recipients of the award are Max Beckmann (1906),^[6] Ernst Barlach (1909),^[7] Joseph Fassbender (1929),^[8] Gerhard Marcks,^[9] Toni Stadler [de] (1937),^[10] Walter Stöhrer (1978),^[11] and Georg Baselitz (1965).^[12]