Panel discussion on the art of medals on 26.08.2024 at the Museum of Cultural History

The Emperor Otto Cultural Foundation and the City of Magdeburg are holding an artist talk to pay tribute to one of Germany’s most renowned contemporary sculptors and medallists: Bernd Göbel. He is a master of his craft. The former professor of sculpture at the Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design is a medallist of international renown. His artistic oeuvre is extensive. In plaques, small sculptures and free works of art for public spaces, Bernd Göbel deals with contemporary historical events as well as current themes and discourses. Bernd Göbel has dedicated a significant part of his work to medals, in particular portrait medals. In addition to the Leopoldina, for which he created more than 20 portraits of scholars, the City of Magdeburg also commissioned portrait medals for the Emperor Otto Prize. They bear witness to the artist’s engagement with the honored personalities; they are commissioned works and free works of art at the same time.

The Mayor of the City of Magdeburg, Simone Borris, will open the panel event.

The panel discussion will take place on 26.08.2024 at 18:00 in the Museum of Cultural History Magdeburg, Otto-von-Guericke-Str. 68 – 73.

Please register by 21.08.2024 via the e-mail address info@kulturstiftung-kaiser-otto.de.

Background information on the Emperor Otto Prize

Since 2005, the city, together with the Emperor Otto Cultural Foundation, has awarded the prize of the same name, which is the highest honor bestowed by the City of Magdeburg. The Emperor Otto Prize sends a clear message: Europe needs courageous and determined personalities who are committed to the European community and to living together in tolerance, diversity and understanding so that we can all live together in peace and freedom. In recognition of their outstanding services to the European unification process and the promotion of the European idea, the award winners receive a medal with portraits of the honorees on the front and one of Otto the Great’s imperial seals on the reverse. An award could hardly be more individual, personal and artistic.