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4-594: The KAIROS Prize has been awarded to European artists and scholars from the fields of visual and performing arts, music, architecture, design, film, photography, literature and journalism since 2007 by the Alfred Toepfer Foundation in Hamburg. It is endowed with a sum of 75,000 Euro. Source: This article about an arts award is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Alfred Toepfer Stiftung F.V.S. The rich industrialist Alfred Toepfer

8-686: A prestigious architecture prize, created by the Alfred Toepfer Stiftung F.V.S. in 1963 in memoriam of Rostock architect Heinrich Tessenow . The prize is annually assigned by the Heinrich-Tessenow-Gesellschaft e.V. and among the rewardeds are Giorgio Grassi (1992), Juan Navarro Baldeweg (1998), David Chipperfield (1999), Eduardo Souto de Moura (2001) besides the Pritzker Prize winners Sverre Fehn (1997) and Peter Zumthor (1989). a. The name of its founder

12-546: Is considered, by the contemporary historiographic criticism, a controversial figure; philanthropist and lover of the arts, he had a significant role in the culture, politics and economic environment of Nazi Germany from the 30s until the end of the Second World War . The activity of Toepfer in between the two World Wars, is well documented by a massive cultural promotion of the ideas of common ethics and identity , obviously symbiotic with Nazi ideology . Toepfer however, after

16-399: The war, denied any kind of Nazi involvement completely and categorically. The substantial abdication of his politic and ideologic past, is recognised by critics nowadays in the important range of prizes instituted by the foundation, which are: The foundation cooperates also with the most important German universities and renowned cultural associations. The Heinrich Tessenow Medal is

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