Wolf Prize in Arts

Check all the winners of Wolf Prize in Arts.
Year Winner Winner Work
2013 Eduardo Souto de Moura Architecture - for the advancement of architectural knowledge in showing how buildings can philiosophically and experientially engage with the natural world, and for his exceptional skills as a designer.
2012 Plácido Domingo Music - for his powerful, multicolored voice that retains its purity and clarity at all registers.
2012 Simon Rattle Music - a leading international figure among today\u2019s conductors. His name precedes him as a perfectionist in performing a broad range of music compositions, and he is highly acclaimed all over the world by musicians who have performed under his baton, as by the listener audience. He is considered unique in the scope of his repertoire, which he performs at such high standards.
2011 Rosemarie Trockel Painting - for her multidimensional art practice, which provides a powerful model that engages the mainstream obliquely and critically.
2010 David Chipperfield Architecture - for Innovative architect and educator, for advancing the discipline of architecture through both theoretical texts and exceptional buildings of profound consequence.
Peter Eisenman Architecture - for Innovative architect and educator, for advancing the discipline of architecture through both theoretical texts and exceptional buildings of profound consequence.
2009
2008 Gia Kancheli Music - for one of the world´s greatest contemporary composers, whose unique music is infused with unforgettable beauty.
Claudio Abbado Music - for one of the world´s greatest contemporary composers, whose unique music is infused with unforgettable beauty.
2007 Michelangelo Pistoletto Painting - 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.
2006
2005 Jean Nouvel Architecture - for providing a new model of contextualism and redefining the dialectic between the two salient characteristics of contemporary architecture: concreteness and ephemerality.
2004 Mstislav Rostropovich Music - a person of profound musical and humanitarian commitment, who has distinguished himself as one of the great musicians of our time.
2004 Daniel Barenboim Music - a cellist, conductor, pianist and exceptional human being, who has created a career of monumental proportions.
2003 Louise Bourgeois Painting - 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.
2002
2001 Álvaro Siza Vieira Architecture - for the critical relevance of his typically responsive architecture to the continual transformation of both landscape and urban fabric.
2000 Pierre Boulez Music - one of the most creative living personalities in the realm of music.
2000 Riccardo Muti Music - one of the most outstanding conductors of our time.
1999
1998 James Turrell Sculpture - for His highly individualistic imagery is a spiritualized synthesis of form and light in seemingly infinite space.
1997 Frei Otto Architecture - for their fundamental structural contributions to the advancement of contemporary architecture as a social and technical art form in the evolution of theTwentieth Century.
Aldo van Eyck Architecture - for their fundamental structural contributions to the advancement of contemporary architecture as a social and technical art form in the evolution of theTwentieth Century.
1996 Zubin Mehta Music - 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.
1996 György Ligeti Music - 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.
1995
1994 Gerhard Richter Painting - for his vast artistic activity, which has influenced the contemporary art scene of the past three decades.
1993 Bruce Nauman Sculpture - for distinguished work as a sculptor and his extraordinary contribution to twentieth century art.
1992 Jørn Utzon Architecture - his architecture, rooted in deep reading of human cultures, has given shape to processes of ritual and assembly in forms of haunting presence.
1992 Denys Lasdun Architecture - with architecture as a social art, he enhances the relations between people through primary architectural means that far transcend style.
1992 Frank Gehry Architecture - creating architecture as art and sculpture, he embodies the fight for liberation destroying dogma, principle and method.
1991 Yehudi Menuhin Music - one of the greatest violinists of the 20th century, his unforgettable interpretations and humanitarian activities contributed significantly to bringing nations together through musical education, enlightening peoples and elevating cultural levels throughout the world.
1991 Luciano Berio Music - one of the greatest composers of our generation, he is also recognized and admired worldwide as interpreter, conductor, Iecturer and writer whose new ideas, in an age of deva luation of human values, help to bring closer nations, cultures and generations.
1990 Anselm Kiefer Painting - for his epic and physically compelling paintings, in which he creates a continuum, linking current life with history and mythology.
1989 Claes Oldenburg Sculpture - 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'.
1988 Fumihiko Maki Architecture - 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.
Giancarlo De Carlo Architecture - 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.
1987 Isaac Stern music - for his everlasting humanistic contribution to society as an artist and educator, which transcends the boundaries of musical performance.
1987 Krzysztof Penderecki music - for his achievements and innovations in the field of composition.
1986 Jasper Johns Painting - One of the leading and most influential figures of Pop Art in the world since its inception.
1984 Eduardo Chillida sculpture - His sculpture, expressing a fruitful imagination and a practical beauty of forms, combines tradition and innovation in a contemporary guise.
1983 Ralph Erskine Architecture - for his fundamental contribution to contemporary architecture, based on his creative spirit, solving human problems in a highly original formal language.
1982 Olivier Messiaen music - for his inspired and inspiring extension of our sound world.
1982 Vladimir Horowitz music - for his outstanding contribution to the art of musical interpretation, and especially his musicalization of pianism.
1982 Josef Tal music - for his novel approach to musical structure and texture and the unfailing dramatic tension of his creations.
1981 Antoni Tàpies Painting
1981 Marc Chagall Painting
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