THE 2010 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN THE ARTS (ARCHITECTURE)

The Prize Committee for the Arts has unanimously decided that the 2010 Wolf Foundation Prize in the Arts (Architecture) will be jointly awarded to:

Peter Eisenman
Eisenman Architects
41 West 25th Street
New York, USA

Innovative architect and educator, for advancing the discipline of architecture through both theoretical texts and exceptional buildings of profound consequence.

Together with:

David Chipperfield
David Chipperfield Architects ltd.
Cobham Mews, Agar Grove
London NW1 9SB
United Kingdom

Extraordinary architect, who has brought great refinement and quality to a contemporary interpretation of classical architecture, as a profound principle, rather than simply as an image

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THE 2008 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN THE ARTS

The Prize Committee for the Arts has unanimously decided that the 2008 Wolf Foundation Prize in the Arts (Music) will be jointly awarded to

Giya Kancheli
Tbilisi, Georgia, and
Antwerpen, Belgium

one of the world´s greatest contemporary composers, whose unique music is infused with unforgettable beauty.

Claudio Abbado
Milano, Italy

one of the world´s pre-eminent conductors. A remarkable human being, whose music-making is imbued with passion, intellect and love.

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THE 2006/7 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN THE ARTS

The Prize Committee for the Arts has unanimously decided that the 2006/7 Wolf Foundation Prize in the Arts (Painting and Sculpture) will be awarded to the artist

Michelangelo Pistoletto
Biella, Italy

for his constantly inventive career as an artist, educator and activist, whose restless intelligence has created prescient forms of art that contribute to fresh understanding of the world.

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THE 2005 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN THE ARTS (ARCHITECTURE)

Jean Nouvel
Paris
France

for providing a new model of contextualism and redefining the dialectic between the two salient characteristics of contemporary architecture: concreteness and ephemerality.

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THE 2004 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN THE ARTS

The Prize Committee for the Arts has unanimously decided that the 2004 Wolf Prize in the Arts (Music), will be awarded to

Mstislav Rostropovich
Paris, France

a cellist, conductor, pianist and exceptional human being, who has created a career of monumental proportions;

Daniel Barenboim
State Opera House (Staatsoper unter den Linden), Berlin, Germany, and
Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Chicago, U.S.A.

a person of profound musical and humanitarian commitment, who has distinguished himself as one of the great musicians of our time.

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THE 2002/3 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN THE ARTS

Louise Bourgeois
New York, USA

for an oeuvre, that for six decades and encompassing a remarkable range of media, has sustained aesthetic and formal innovation, intellectual complexity and contemporary relevance.

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THE 2001 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN ARTS (ARCHITECTURE)

Alvaro Siza
Porto, Portugal

for the critical relevance of his typically responsive architecture to the continual transformation of both landscape and urban fabric.

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THE 2000 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN ARTS (MUSIC)

Pierre Boulez
IRCAM
Paris, France

One of the most creative living personalities in the realm of music.

Riccardo Muti
Teatro alla Scala
Milano, Italy

One of the most outstanding conductors of our time.

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THE 1998 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN ARTS (SCULPTURE)

James Turrell
Flagstaff, Arizona
USA

His highly individualistic imagery is a spiritualized synthesis of form and light in seemingly infinite space.

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THE 1996/7 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN ARTS (ARCHITECTURE)

Frei Otto
Leonberg, Germany

Aldo Van Eyck
Amsterdam, The Netherlands

for their fundamental structural contributions to the advancement of contemporary architecture as a social and technical art form in the evolution of the Twentieth Century.

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THE 1995/6 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN ARTS (MUSIC)

Zubin Mehta
The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
Tel Aviv, Israel

who is considered one of the world’s foremost conductors of our time. His humanitarian contributions to bring people together through the universal language of music and his constant encouragement of young artists, are unforgettable.

Gyorgy Ligeti
Hochschule fuer Musik
Hamburg, Germany

One of the most outstanding composers of the second half of the 20th century. While based on musical tradition, he has brought new ways, original and innovative, and created models to inspire younger generations of composers.

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THE 1994/5 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN ARTS (PAINTING)

Gerhard Richter
Cologne, Germany

for his vast artistic activity, which has influenced the contemporary art scene of the past three decades.

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THE 1993 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN ARTS (SCULPTURE)

Bruce Nauman
Galisteo, New Mexico, USA

for distinguished work as a sculptor and his extraordinary contribution to twentieth-century art.

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THE 1992 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN ARTS (ARCHITECTURE)

Frank O. Gehry
Santa Monica, California, USA

Creating architecture as art and sculpture, he embodies the fight for liberation destroying dogma, principle and method.

Jorn Utzon
Aalsgaarde, Denmark

His architecture, rooted in deep reading of human cultures, has given shape to processes of ritual and assembly in forms of haunting presence.

Sir Denys Lasdun
London, United Kingdom

With architecture as a social art, he enhances the relations between people through primary architectural means that far transcend style.

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THE 1991 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN ARTS (MUSIC)

Sir Yehudi Menuhin
London, United Kingdom

One of the greatest violinists of the 20th. century, his unforgettable interpretations and humanitarian activities contributed significantly to bringing nations together through musical education.

Luciano Berio
Siena, Italy

One of the greatest composers of our generation, he is also recognized and admired worldwide as interpreter, conductor, lecturer and writer whose new ideas, in an age of devaluation of human values, help to bring closer nations, cultures and generations.

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THE 1990 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN ARTS (PAINTING)

Anselm Kiefer
Buchen, Germany

for his epic and physically compelling paintings, in which he creates a continuum, linking current life with history and mythology.

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THE 1989 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN ARTS (SCULPTURE)

Claes T. Oldenburg
New York, N.Y., USA

who, over some three decades, has invested prosaic objects with historic and mythical allusions. For all the simplicity of their subject matter, they are statements about metamorphosis and invite the observer to reflect upon life´s processes.

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THE 1988 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN ARTS (ARCHITECTURE)

Fumihiko Maki
University of Tokyo
Tokyo, Japan

Giancarlo De Carlo
Institute of Architecture
Venice, Italy

for their work which represents the spirit of an architecture that looks to the future without renouncing the past; brings about meaningful shapes and environments without forsaking human and social aspects and responds to universal issues without neglecting regional attributes.

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THE 1987 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN ARTS (MUSIC)

Isaac Stern
New York, N.Y., USA

for his everlasting humanistic contribution to society as an artist and educator, which transcends the boundaries of musical performance.

Krzysztof Penderecki
Krakow, Poland

for his achievements and innovations in the field of composition.

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THE 1986 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN ARTS (PAINTING)

Jasper Johns
New York, N.Y., USA

One of the leading and most influential figures of Pop Art in the world since its inception.

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THE 1984/5 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN ARTS (SCULPTURE)

Eduardo Chillida
San Sebastian, Spain

His sculpture, expressing a fruitful imagination and a practical beauty of forms, combines tradition and innovation in a contemporary guise.

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THE 1983/4 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN ARTS (ARCHITECTURE)

Ralph Erskine
Drottningholm, Sweden

for his fundamental contribution to contemporary architecture, based on his creative spirit, solving human problems in a highly original formal language.

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THE 1982 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN ARTS (MUSIC)

Vladimir Horowitz
New York, N.Y., USA

for his outstanding contribution to the art of musical interpretation, and especially his musicalization of pianism.

Olivier Messiaen
Paris, France

for his inspired and inspiring extension of our sound world.

Josef Tal
Jerusalem, Israel

for his novel approach to musical structure and texture and the unfailing dramatic tension of his creations.

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