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Palais de Tokyo by Benjamin Fellmann wins Willibad Sauerländer Award 2020

The Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte awards volume 22 of the Warburg-Haus Studies its prize for distinguished research in the history and practice of art history

The Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte (ZI) in Munich honours volume 22 of the Warburg-Haus Studies, edited by Uwe Fleckner, Margit Kern, Birgit Recki and Cornelia Zumbusch: Benjamin Fellmann, scientific coordinator of the Warburg-Haus, is the 2020 winner of the Willibald Sauerländer Award for his book Palais de Tokyo. Kunstpolitik und Ästhetik im 20. und 21. Jahrhundert (Palais de Tokyo. Art politics and aesthetics in the 20th and 21st century).

The Willibald Sauerländer Award honours and supports early career research in the history of art history.

The prize funded by Conivncta Florescit Friends of the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte honours the memory of Willibald Sauerländer (1924-2018), from 1970 to 1989 director of the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte and an honorary professor at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich.

An award ceremony is planned on Wednesday, November 18th, 2020, at the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, München, with a lecture by Hans-Christian Hönes.

• Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte: Willibald Sauerländer Award
• Palais de Tokyo. Volume 22 of the Warburg-Haus Studies