Emanuel and Sofie Fohn Scholarships 2023

Deadline: Tuesday, Nov 7, 2023, 11:00am

The Emanuel and Sofie-Fohn Scholarship Foundation is once again offering scholarships totaling 20.000 Euro for highly talented students and graduates from Austria and South Tyrol and for Italians whose native language is German.

The foundation supports highly talented students of fine arts and art history. Also, students who complete post-graduate studies, seminars, or other advanced training are allowed to submit.

Sofie Fohn, née Schneider (1899-1990), painter and widow of the painter Emanuel Fohn (1881-1966), provided assets for the Emanuel and Sofie Fohn Scholarship Foundation in her will. Since 2018, the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna has taken over the administration of the foundation.

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The jury, chaired by Ingeborg Erhart, Vice Rector for Art | Teaching at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, will select the scholarship recipients:

Michaela Eichwald, Institute of Fine Arts, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
Magdalena Nieslony, Institute of Art History, University of Vienna
Jasper Sharp, phileas Vienna
Jürgen Tabor, Museum der Moderne Salzburg

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Applicants (criteria are specified by the founders in the foundation deed):

Highly talented students and graduates (completion of studies [BA/MA/Diploma] within the last two years [October 2021 - October 2023]) from universities, colleges, and art academies
Austrian citizenship or South Tyroleans/Italians with German as their mother tongue
Previous scholarship recipients are not eligible to reapply

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Documents (submitted as PDF documents with 10 MB and 25 pages maximum each):

Curriculum Vitae (+ enrollment confirmation, BA/MA or diploma certificate)
A consolidated transcript of all previously completed examinations (even for completed degrees)
Birth Certificate / Proof of citizenship
For students of artistic studies: additionally, a portfolio containing the 5 most significant artistic works
For students of art history: current publications/texts or text samples (such as catalog texts, published exhibition reviews, dissertation concepts, or texts that provide the jury with an impression of writing skills, e.g., image interpretations, up to a maximum of 2 A4 pages)
For submissions for postgraduate studies, seminars, or other further education programs: information about the offerings and costs

For further information please contact Barbara Pflanzner (b.pflanzner@akbild.ac.at, +43 1 588 16-1204)

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