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Otto Breicha Award

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The Otto Breicha Award for Photographic Arts is awarded every two years by Museum der Moderne Salzburg to photographers from or living in Austria.

The Award was first established in 1983 under the name 'Rupertinum Photo Prize'. The Salzburg Museum Rupertinum (which is now part of Museum der Moderne Salzburg) was co-founded by its first director Otto Breicha. The prize was awarded every two years until 2001. After a hiatus the prize was revived in 2007 and renamed "Otto Breicha Prize for Photographic Art" in memory of Otto Breicha's early promotion of photography as an art form, which was still not very popular at the time. It was reconceptualized so that it is not longer only awarded for pure photography, but also recognizes the role of photography in media contexts. The prize is supported by the Breicha family and the winner's work is shown in an exhibition at Rupertinum.[1]

Laureates

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Year Name
01 1983 Alfred Seiland
02 1985 Otmar Thormann
03 1987 Branko Lenart
04 1989 Heinz Cibulka
05 1991 Manfred Willmann
06 1993 Walter Berger
07 1995 Paul Albert Leitner
08 1997 Friedl Kubelka
09 1999 Seiichi Furuya
10 2001 Peter Dressler
11 2007 Ferry Radax
12 2009 Margherita Spiluttini
13 2011 Ilse Haider
14 2013 Matthias Herrmann
15 2015 Leo Kandl
16 2017 Lisl Ponger
17 2019 Marina Faust
18 2021 Anna Jermolaewa


References

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  1. ^ Toni Stooss. "Vorwort". Otto-Breicha-Preis 2007. Ferry Radax (in German). Salzburg: Museum der Moderne Salzburg. p. 5. ISBN 3-9501477-9-9.