Established in 2024, this award for visual arts is presented to artists for individual works that are recognized by a jury of the KünstlerGilde e.V. as part of an art prize competition with an annually changing artistic focus.
The award’s namesake, the painter and graphic artist Leo Lesser Ury, born in 1861 in the province of Poznan, belonged to German Impressionism and was an important representative of the so-called Berlin Secession. While the cosmopolitan had an almost legendary enmity with Max Liebermann, Ury only flourished within the Secession with regular exhibitions when Lovis Corinth – the namesake of the Artists’ Guild’s Lovis Corinth Art Prize – replaced Liebermann as president. Ury’s typical pictures with coffee house and street scenes – and often with very characteristic light reflections – continue to impress to this day.
Application deadline: February 28, 2026