Ulla and Eberhard Jung Foundation

The benefactors Ulla Jung and Eberhard Jung invested their personal assets to form a non-independent trust to be managed and maintained by the Klassik Stiftung Weimar for the purpose of promoting the fine arts. The grants awarded by the Klassik Stiftung Weimar are intended to finance prizes, exhibitions and events, and provide scholarships particularly to students and graduates of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar.

Purpose of the Foundation

The purpose of the non-independent Ulla and Eberhard Jung Foundation is to promote the fine arts. The funding provided by the Foundation is chiefly used to finance exhibitions and events, offer prizes, hold competitions and grant scholarships. The Ulla and Eberhard Jung Foundation exclusively and directly pursues non-profit purposes in accordance with the "Tax Concessions" section of the German Tax Code.

Board of trustees

The Foundation is managed by a board of trustees comprised of five members.

Board of trustees

The Foundation is managed by a board of trustees comprised of five members.

General Museum Director of the Klassik Stiftung Weimar (chairman)

Dr. Annette Ludwig

Department head responsible for contemporary art at the Klassik Stiftung Weimar

Dr Ulrike Bestgen

Gallerist

Dr Jörk Rothamel, Galerie Rothamel Erfurt & Frankfurt am Main

Benefactors

Ulla and Eberhard Jung

Thuringian Association of Fine Artists (VBKth)

Dr. Angelika Steinmetz-Oppelland

Ulla and Eberhard Jung Foundation Prize 2021 – Call for applications

Since 2011 the Ulla and Eberhard Jung Foundation has awarded prizes distinguishing young, outstanding Thuringian artists. The award comes with the purchase of a work by the prizewinner. This year’s winner will be announced at the Thuringian art fair “artthuer” at the beginning of November.

The Thuringian Association of Fine Artists (VBKth) has been a cooperation partner of the Ulla and Eberhard Jung Foundation since 2019 and is responsible for organising the competition.

Click here (PDF, 86 KB) for more information on the call for applications. The deadline for submissions is Monday, 8 November 2021 at 12 pm.

 

The nominees of the 2020 prize were:

Theresa Berger
Am Ende des Regenbogens liegt eine Schüssel voll Gold, 2020

Annekatrin Lemke
ohne Titel, 2019

Michael Merkel
Europa, 2019

Cosima Göpfert
MORS FROM MARS VI – Gemorste Botschaft, 2020

Tanja Pohl
Phone-Head, 2020 (Owned by the Klassik Stiftung Weimar since 2020, donated by the Ulla and Eberhard Jung Foundation)

View the nominees of the 20112012201320142015, 2016, 2017 and 2019.

In 2018, no prize was awarded.

Projects of the Klassik Stiftung Weimar are funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and the Free State of Thuringia, represented by the State Chancellery of Thuringia, Department of Culture and the Arts.