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 in Berlin (see below for date), in which Boehm is participating with a work.
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. Through the acquisition of Armin Boehm’s representative group of works, the Museum Folkwang is expanding its collection, which has a focus on Expressionism and related artistic positions of the 1920s and 1930s, among other things, and at the same time continuing the expansion of the collection with important groups of painterly works of post-war and contemporary art in an impressive and contemporary manner. Since the museum has been presenting its collection by theme rather than chronologically since 2019, Armin Boehm’s works will in future be on display in the direct vicinity of related 20th century exhibits.
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Photo: Museum Folkwang | © Museum Folkwang, Giorgio Pastore
