Villa Massimo
Villa Massimo, short for Deutsche Akademie Rom Villa Massimo (Italian: Accademia Tedesca Roma Villa Massimo), is a German art institute in Rome, established in 1910 and located in the Villa Massimo.
The fellowship at Villa Massimo German Academy in Rome is one of the most important awards offered to German artists for study abroad. The award offers residency for one year at the Villa Massimo to ten artists in the middle of their careers who have excelled in Germany and abroad, including architects, composers, writers, painters and sculptors.
The institution's founder was the patron and entrepreneur Eduard Arnhold, who in 1910 acquired the beautiful property of 36,000 m², previously the suburban villa of the aristocratic Massimo family. Arnhold commissioned the main building, a large villa appropriate for official events, and ten modern studios with adjacent private residential spaces. He later donated the villa and its luxurious furnishings to the Prussian state. Today, Villa Massimo is managed by the German Federal Ministry of Cultural Affairs and Media. After a three-year restoration, the Academy reopened in 2003 with a renewed commitment to fostering culture in Rome and in Italy.
Selected recipients
Artists
- 1929 Walter Bernstein (artist)
- 1931 Hermann Blumenthal
- 1932 Felix Nussbaum, Arno Breker
- 1933 Carlo Mense
- 1935 Alfred Knispel
- 1957 Fritz Koenig
- 1976 Anselm Kiefer
- 1979 Rolf-Gunter Dienst
- 1980 Hans Peter Reuter
- 1982 Stefan Szczesny
- 1985 Emil Schumacher
- 1986 Annegret Soltau
- 1989 Manfred Stumpf
- 1991 Eberhard Bosslet
- 1997 Matthias Leupold
- 1998 Olaf Nicolai
- 2003 Thomas Demand
- 2005 Sandra Hastenteufel, Johannes Kahrs
- 2007 Matthias Weischer
- 2009 Jochen Lempert
- 2010 Christian Jankowski
- 2011 Via Lewandowsky, Maria Sewcz, Julia Schmidt
- 2012 Philipp Lachenmann
Architects
- 1932 Carl Ludwig Franck
- 1933 Hans Poelzig
- 2011 Andrea Hartmann, Matthias Graf von Ballestrem
Composers
- 1957 and 1964 Bernd Alois Zimmermann
- 1958 Wilhelm Killmayer
- 1959 Hans Otte
- 1959 and 1963 Giselher Klebe
- 1960 Jürg Baur, Alfred Koerppen
- 1962 Heinrich Konietzny
- 1964 Hans Zender, Aribert Reimann
- 1965 and 1977 Friedrich Voss
- 1965/66 Heinz Werner Zimmermann, Wilhelm Killmayer
- 1966/67 and 1977 Erhard Grosskopf
- 1967/68 Friedhelm Döhl
- 1968 Wolfgang Rihm, Jürg Baur
- 1968/69 Hans Zender
- 1972/73 Hans-Joachim Hespos
- 1976 Anton Plate
- 1976/77 George Dreyfus
- 1977 and 1978/79 Manfred Trojahn
- 1978, 1981/82 and 1984 Wilfried Hiller
- 1978/79 Ulrich Leyendecker, Wolfgang von Schweinitz
- 1979 Theo Brandmüller
- 1979/80 and 1982 Detlev Müller-Siemens
- 1979/80 Wolfgang Rihm, Peter Michael Hamel
- 1981/82 and 1983 Hans-Jürgen von Bose
- 1982/83 Renate Birnstein
- 1983 Peter Kiesewetter
- 1983/84 Reinhard Febel
- 1984/85 York Höller
- 1985/86 Harald Weiss
- 1986/87 Michael Denhoff, Walter Zimmermann
- 1987/88 Max Beckschäfer, Susanne Erding-Swiridoff
- 1991 Claus Kühnl
- 1992/93 Detlev Glanert, Jan Müller-Wieland
- 1993 Adriana Hölszky
- 1994 Steffen Schleiermacher
- 1995 Helmut Oehring
- 1995/96 André Werner, Fredrik Zeller
- 1996/97 Moritz Eggert
- 1997/98 Carola Bauckholt
- 1998/99 Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf
- 1999 Annette Schlünz
- 2003 Johannes Kalitzke
- 2004 Carsten Hennig
- 2005 Rudi Spring
- 2006 Oliver Schneller
- 2007 Dieter Dolezel
- 2008 Arnulf Herrmann, Stephan Winkler
- 2009 Charlotte Seither, Márton Illés
- 2010 Philipp Maintz, Anno Schreier
- 2011 Sven-Ingo Koch, Marc Sabat
- 2012 Hauke Berheide, Stefan Bartling
Writers
- 1959 Hans Magnus Enzensberger
- 1961 Heinrich Böll
- 1962 Uwe Johnson
- 1964 Peter Rühmkorf
- 1972/73 Rolf Dieter Brinkmann, Nicolas Born
- 1981 Hugo Dittberner
- 1993 Volker Braun
- 2005 Julia Franck, Feridun Zaimoğlu
- 2006 Terézia Mora
- 2007 Ingo Schulze
- 2008 Navid Kermani
- 2009 Durs Grünbein
- 2010 Marcel Beyer
- 2011 Lutz Seiler, Jan Wagner
See also
References
- Official homepage (German)
- Die Stipendiaten der Villa Massimo vom Gründungsjahr 1913 bis 2010 recipients 1913 to 2010
- Die Stipendiaten der Villa Massimo 2011 recipients 2011