NEWS ++ Artist talk today in Berlin! Museum Folkwang receives 50,000 EUR Tiemann Prize for the purchase of works by painter Armin Boehm

The Museum Folkwang in Essen is the first public institution in Germany to receive the Tiemann Prize. It was able to convince with its application for a group of works by the Berlin-based painter Armin Boehm (*1972) and will receive the purchase budget of 50,000 euros on 3 November 2023 at a ceremony in the presence of the artist and the donor couple Tiemann at the Museum Folkwang in Essen. The newly established award is aimed directly at museums and art institutions and enables the expansion of the respective collection through the purchase of contemporary painting. Shortly after the announcement of the jury’s decision, an artist talk with Armin Boehm will take place on 7 September 2023 as part of the VERMEER CONTEMPORARY exhibition at CSR.ART, Berlin, in which Boehm is participating with a work. More information under the article.

The jury was convinced by the museum’s wish to include four works by Armin Boehm in its collection. With his painted social allegories, Boehm takes up the genre that artists such as Max Beckmann, George Grosz and Otto Dix have significantly influenced. By acquiring this representative group of works by Armin Boehm, the Museum Folkwang is expanding its collection, which focuses, among other things, on the …

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Image abive: Armin Boehm, Monetozän, 2017, Oil and fabric on canvas, 170 x 180 cm © Lepkowski Studios Berlin