International Senefelder Foundation Marks Its 40th Anniversary

The foundation primarily promotes itself by presenting the International Senefelder Award. The award honors extraordinary achievements in the field of lithography and its further development. The jury assesses a variety of artistic work in the area of lithographic printing, i.e. images produced on stone; flatbed printing, produced for example by metal offset plates or foil; and mixed techniques using lithography, offset printing, or a combination of the two. The award was first presented in 1975. Among the previous winners are the artists Bruno Bruni, Ernst Hanke, Oskar Koller, Christian Kruck, Bard Verbaenen and Jim Dine.