lesser-ury art prize '25

Following the great success of the two initial calls for entries, the Lesser-Ury Art Prize will also be awarded in 2025.

This award for visual arts, launched in 2024, will be given to artists for individual works that are selected by a jury of the KünstlerGilde eV as part of an art prize competition with an annually changing artistic focus.

The namesake of the prize, the painter and graphic artist Leo Lesser Ury , born in the province of Posen in 1861 , was part of the German Impressionist movement and an important representative of the so-called Berlin Secession . While the cosmopolitan had an almost legendary enmity with Max Liebermann, Ury only flourished within the Secession with regular exhibitions when Lovis Corinth - the namesake of the Lovis Corinth Art Prize of the Artists' Guild - replaced Liebermann as president. Ury's typical pictures with coffee house and street scenes - and not infrequently with very characteristic reflections of light - are still impressive today.