The Max Pechstein Honorary Award of the City of Zwickau 2023 goes to the artist Doris Ziegler, who was born in Weimar and works in Leipzig. With the award ceremony on October 6, 2023 in the KUNSTSAMMLUNGEN ZWICKAU Max-Pechstein-Museum and a comprehensive exhibition from October 7, 2023 to January 14, 2024, the distinctive as well as independent painterly position of the artist is honored. The work of Leipzig-based artist Doris Ziegler is one of the most important painterly positions of our time. Trained at the Leipzig Academy of Fine Arts (HGB) under Werner Tübke and Wolfgang Mattheuer, Doris Ziegler represents the second generation of the so-called "Leipzig School". As a female painter, she undisputedly occupies an important place in the still male-dominated ranks of painters.
The Max Pechstein Honorary Award is intended to honor the distinctive and independent work of the artist Doris Ziegler. In addition, this important honorary prize in the German museum landscape was awarded for the first time to an artist whose extraordinary work particularly deserves this recognition.