Emanuel and Sofie Fohn Scholarships 2024

Deadline: Tuesday, Nov 19, 2024, 11:00am

The Emanuel and Sofie Fohn Scholarship Foundation is once again offering up to 10 scholarships this year, totaling 20,000 euros, for exceptionally talented students and graduates from Austria and South Tyrol, as well as for Italians with German as their native language.

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

Supported will be highly talented students in the field of visual arts, art history, as well as students pursuing postgraduate studies, seminars, or other further education programs

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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 2022 - October 2024]) from universities, colleges, and art academies
Austrian citizenship or South Tyroleans/Italians with German as their native language
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)
Proof of citizenship (Copy of passport)
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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