Main house of the Villa Massimo

Villa Massimo, short for Deutsche Akademie Rom Villa Massimo (Italian: Accademia Tedesca Roma Villa Massimo), is a German cultural institution in Rome, established in 1910 and located in the Villa Massimo.

The fellowship of the German Academy in Rome is one of the most important awards granted to distinguished artists for study abroad. The award offers residencies of one year at Villa Massimo in Rome as well as three months at Casa Baldi in Olevano Romano to artists who have excelled in Germany and abroad, including architects, composers, writers and artists.[1]

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. From 2002 to June 2019 Joachim Blüher was the director of the Academy. He was succeeded by Julia Draganović.[2][3]

Selected recipients

Artists

Architects

  • 1932 Carl Ludwig Franck
  • 1933 Fritz Sonntag
  • 1983/84 Peter Riemann
  • 1986 Karl-Heinz Petzinka
  • 1995 Claudia Meixner
  • 2003 Imke Woelk
  • 2004 Heike Schuppelius
  • 2005 Heike Böttcher, Jakob Timpe
  • 2006 Bernd Bess
  • 2007 Antje Freiesleben, Rudolf Finsterwalder, Wieka Muthesius
  • 2008 Beate Kirsch,
  • 2009 Sebastian Reinhardt, Daniel Widrig
  • 2010 Jan Liesegang, Norbert Sachs
  • 2011 Andrea Hartmann, Matthias Graf von Ballestrem
  • 2012 Antje Buchholz, Birgit Elisabeth Frank, Kai Nikolaus Grüne, Jörn Köppler
  • 2013 Pia Meier Schriever, Eike Roswag, Anna Viader Soler, Verena von Beckerath
  • 2014 Jan Edler, Thilo Folkerts
  • 2015 Michael Hirschbichler, Jorg Sieweke
  • 2016/2017 Anna Kubelik
  • 2017/2018 Benedict Esche
  • 2018/2019 Lars Krückeberg

Composers

Writers

Practical scholarship

See also

References

  1. "Villa Massimo in Tip Berlin Magazin (in German)".
  2. "Villa Massimo". www.villamassimo.de.
  3. "Giornale Diplomatico (in Italian)".
  4. "Praxisstipendium 2015". Villa Massimo (in German). Retrieved 7 May 2017.
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