In a two-year cycle, the Lothar & Christel Fischer Foundation in collaboration with the City of Neumarkt grants the Lothar Fischer Award. It honors a still living artist, who is free from fads of the art market, has shown an independent profile, and whose work has the potential to achieve a great contribution to sculptural art in the future. The award is to be understood as aid money with the emphasis on sculpturing and should distinguish a work that encompasses Fischer’s understanding of art, is in accord with the museum’s profile, and possesses a lasting artistic quality. The award winner has to be willing to hold an exhibition in the museum one year after receiving the award.
A jury nominates the artists. Chairwoman of the Jury is the art historian Selima Niggl, member of the foundation’s board of trustees. The selected award winner receives an award fee of 5,000 Euro and the possibility to exhibit in the temporary exhibition room of the museum one year after the public offer of the reward. There is no claim to it though.
Lothar Fischer Award 2005
Klaus Hack
Lothar Fischer Award 2007
Rolf Wicker
Lothar Fischer Award 2009
Brigitte Schwacke
Lothar Fischer Award 2011
Martin Wöhrl
Lothar Fischer Award 2013
Felix Schramm
Lothar Fischer Award 2015
Stefan Rohrer
Lothar Fischer Award 2017
Leunora Salihu
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Lothar Fischer Award 2019
Benjamin Houlihan
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Lothar Fischer Award 2019
Verena Issel
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Lothar-Fischer-Preis 2023
Claudia Mann
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