Betye Saar

About this book

Due to the Corona Pandemic the award ceremony and the presentation of Betye Saar's work will be postponed to spring 2021. On March 24, 2021 the American artist will be awarded the twenty-sixth Wolfgang Hahn Prize from the Gesellschaft für Moderne Kunst. This recognition of the artist, who was born in Los Angeles in 1926 and is still little known in Germany, is highly timely, the jury consisting of: Christophe Cherix, Robert Lehman Foundation chief curator of drawings and prints at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York; Yilmaz Dziewior, director of the Museum Ludwig and the board members of the association decided. For more than fifty years, Betye Saar has created assemblages from a wide variety of found objects, which she combines with drawing, prints, painting, and photography. The Gesellschaft für Moderne Kunst acquired the assemblage The Divine Face for Museum Ludwig's collection. This work will be presented alongside some works on paper by the artist from March 25 to June 2021 in the collection of the Museum Ludwig.