Recipients

• 1955, Walter Hege, Carl Adolf Schleussner, Erich Stenger, Bruno Uhl
• 1957, Albert Renger-Patzsch
  Albert Renger-Patzsch
  Albert Renger-Patzsch was a German photographer associated with the New Objectivity.Renger-Patzsch was born in Würzburg and began making photographs by age twelve. After military service in the First World War he studied chemistry at Dresden Technical College...
  
  
• 1958, Erna Lendvai-Dircksen
  Erna Lendvai-Dircksen
  Erna Lendvai-Dircksen born 1883 Wetterburg - died 1962 Coburg, was German photographer who was a member of the Nazi party and worked to commission for the Fascist regime led by Adolf Hitler. Erna Dircksen studied painting in the Cassel. In 1916 she opened a portrait studio in Berlin. Dirchsen...
  
  
• 1964, Herbert List
  Herbert List
  Herbert List was a German photographer who worked for magazines including Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, and Life and was associated with Magnum Photos...
  
  
• 1965, Otto Steinert
  Otto Steinert
  Otto Steinert was an important German photographer.Born in Saarbrücken, Germany, Steinert was a medical doctor by profession and was an autodidact in photography. After World War II, he initially worked for the State School for Art and Craft in Saarbrücken...
  
  
• 1966, Martin Hürlimann
  Martin Hürlimann
  Martin Hürlimann was a Swiss photographer. His work was published in a number of books. Western European cities were a common theme, but he also photographed Ceylon and Southeast Asia....
  
  
• 1967, Paul Strand
  Paul Strand
  Paul Strand was an American photographer and filmmaker who, along with fellow modernist photographers like Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Weston, helped establish photography as an art form in the 20th century...
  
  
• 1968, Fritz Gruber
• 1969, Liselotte Strelow
• 1970, Allan Porter
• 1971, Edouard Boubat
  Edouard Boubat
  Edouard Boubat was a French art photographer.-Life and work:Boubat was born in Montmartre, Paris. He studied typography and graphic arts at the Ecole Estienne, and then worked for a printing company before becoming a photographer after WWII. He took his first photograph in 1946 and was awarded the...
  
  
• 1972, Regina Relang
• 1973, J.A. Schmoll, gen. Eisenwerth
• 1974, Fritz Kempe
• 1978, Heinz Hajek-Halke
  Heinz Hajek-Halke
  Heinz Hajek-Halke was a German experimental photographer who co-founded the Fotoform group with Otto Steinert.Heinz Hajek-Halke, born in Berlin in 1898, spent part of his childhood in Argentina. He worked as a photo editor, press photographer and commercial artist, concentrating almost from the...
  
  , Willi Moegle
• 1979, Fritz Brill, Kurt Julius
• 1981, Peter Keetman
• 1983, Helmut Gernsheim
  Helmut Gernsheim
  Helmut Erich Robert Kuno Gernsheim was a renowned historian of photography, collector, and photographer.-Biography:Born in Munich, Germany, Gernsheim studied art history at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich...
  
  
• 1984, Robert Häusser
• 1986, John Hilliard
  John Hilliard (artist)
  John Hilliard, is an English artist.Hilliard studied at Lancaster College of Art and St Martins School of Art, London. He lives and works in London...
  
  
• 1988, Joan Fontcuberta
  Joan Fontcuberta
  Joan Fontcuberta is a conceptual artist whose best-known works, such as Fauna and Sputnik, examine the truthfulness of photography. In addition, he is a writer, editor, teacher, and curator....
  
  
• 1990, Stefan Moses
• 1994, Jürgen Heinemann, Klaus Kammerichs
• 1996, Gottfried Jäger
• 1999, Dieter Appelt
  Dieter Appelt
  Dieter Appelt is a photographer whose work ranges from photography, film and video to performance art that typically involves sculpture of his own construction.-External links:...
  
  
• 2002, Alex Webb
  Alex Webb (photographer)
  Alex Webb is a photojournalist associated with Magnum Photos. He has primarily worked in color, has published several books, and has contributed to such magazines as GEO, Time, and the New York Times Magazine.-Career:Born in San Francisco, Webb was raised in New England...
  
  
• 2005, Bernhard Prinz
• 2009, Joakim Eskildsen
  Joakim Eskildsen
  Joakim Eskildsen is a Danish art photographer.- Career as a photographer :Eskildsen was a pupil of Rigmor Mydtskov in Copenhagen and went to Finland in 1994 to study photographic book making with Pentti Sammallahti at the University of Art and Design Helsinki...
  
  , Cia Rinne