The Austrian Decoration for Science and Art (German: Österreichisches Ehrenzeichen für Wissenschaft und Kunst) is a state decoration of the Republic of Austria and forms part of the national honours system of that country.
The "Austrian Decoration for Science and Art" was established by the National Council as an honour for scientific or artistic achievements by Federal Law of May 1955 (Federal Law Gazette No. 96/1955 as amended BGBl I No 128/2001). At the same time, the National Council also established the "Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art", which is awarded as "Cross of Honour, First Class" (German: Ehrenkreuz 1. Klasse) and "Cross of Honour" (German: Ehrenkreuz). While not technically counted as lower classes of the Decoration for Science and Art, these crosses are nevertheless affiliated with it.
Decoration for Science and Art
The number of living recipients of the Decoration for Science and Art is limited to a maximum of 72 at any one time (36 recipients for science and 36 for arts). In each of these two groups there are 18 Austrian cititzens and 18 foreign nationals.
Cross of Honour for Science and Art, First Class
There are no limits on the number of recipients.
Cross of Honour for Science and Art
There are no limits on the number of recipients.
Decoration for Science and Art
2014: Abbas Kiarostami, film director, screenwriter, photographer
2013: Gerhard Rühm, author, composer, artist
2012: Christoph Waltz, actor
2010: Paul Holdengräber, curator
2008: Marina Abramović, performance artist
2007: Otto Tausig, actor
2006: Bruno Ganz, actor; Stephen Toulmin, philosopher; Christian Meier, historian; Pierre Soulages, painter; Michael Mitterauer, historian
2005: Václav Havel, writer, dissident and former president of the Czech Republic; Christian Attersee, painter; Eric Kandel, neuroscientist; Peter Palese, virologist
2004: Klaus Wolff, dermatologist
2003: Hermann Fillitz, art historian; Wolfgang M. Schmidt, mathematician
2002: Arik Brauer, painter, poet and singer; Peter Wolf, Austrian-born producer and composer; Eugen Biser, religious philosopher; Horst Dreier, legal philosopher; Elliott H. Lieb, physicist and mathematician; Bogdan Bogdanović, architect
2001: Anton Zeilinger, experimental physicist
2000: Paul Kirchhof, constitutional and tax lawyer; Hans Müllejans, provost; Herwig Wolfram, historian; Gerardo Broggini, lawyer
1999: Carl Pruscha, architect; Elisabeth Lichtenberger, geographer; Karl Acham, sociologist; Walter Kohn, physicist
1998: Helmut Denk, pathologist
1997: Bruno Gironcoli, artist; Kurt Schwertsik, composer; Hans Hass, biologist; Robert Walter, jurist; Albrecht Dihle, classical philologist; Cassos Karageorghis, archaeologist; Klemens von Klemperer, historian
1996: Siegfried Josef Bauer, meteorologist and geophysicist
1995: Horst Stein, conductor
1994: Josef Mikl, painter
1993: Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, architect; Peter Schuster, chemist; Gottfried Biegelmeier, physicist; Walter Thirring, physicist; Albert Eschenmoser, chemist; Albrecht Schöne, philologist; Günther Wilke, chemist
1992: Carlos Kleiber, conductor; Krzysztof Penderecki, composer
1991: H.C. Artmann, writer
1990: Ernst Jandl, writer; Hans Hollein, architect
1988: Dietmar Grieser, author and journalist
1987: Friederike Mayröcker, writer
1986: Johann Jascha, artist
1985: Erika Mitterer, writer
1983: Hans Plank, painter
1982: Heinrich Harrer, mountaineer; Jacqueline de Romilly, philologist
1981: Gertrud Fussenegger, writer; Werner Berg, painter
1980: Alfred Uhl and Marcel Rubin, composer; Fritz Hochwälder, writer; Karl Popper, philosopher and science theorist
1979: Roland Rainer, architect; Max Weiler, artist
1978: Hans Nowotny, chemist
1977: Ernst Schönwiese, writer
1976: Friedrich Torberg, writer and translator; Manfred Eigen, chemist
1975: Hans Tuppy, biochemist; Robert Stolz, composer
1974: Gottfried von Einem, composer
1972: Elias Canetti, writer
1971: Fritz Wotruba, architect and artist
1967: Karl Heinrich Waggerl, writer; Lise Meitner, physicist
1966: Ludwig von Ficker, writer and publisher
1964: Edmund Hlawka, mathematician; Ernst Lothar, writer and director
1961: Herbert von Karajan, conductor; Rudolf von Laun, international lawyer
1960: O. W. Fischer, actor
1959: Max Mell, writer
1957: Clemens Holzmeister, architect
Cross (and Cross 1st Class)
2015: Richard Gisser, demographer
2013: Uroš Lajovic, Slovenian conductor
2012: Ronny Reich, Israeli Archaeologist
2010: Boris Pahor, Slovenian writer;
2009: Grita Insam, gallerist; Hans Werner Scheidl, journalist and author; Stefan Größing, sports scientist; Bruno Mamoli, specialist in neurology and psychiatry, Fredmund Malik, management scientist
2008: Gerhard Haszprunar, zoologist; Ernst von Glasersfeld, Austro-American constructivist, Michael Ludwig, Michael Kaufmann, manager of German culture; Reinhard Putz, anatomist; Jessye Norman, American soprano; Hannes Androsch, Finance Minister and Vice Chancellor a.D.
2008: Arvo Pärt, Estonian composer
2007: Herbert W. Franke, scientist, writer, artist; Hans Walter Lack, botanist; Josef Burg, writer; Reginald Vospernik, high school director; Nuria Nono-Schönberg, Lawrence Schönberg, Ronald Schönberg, the three children of Arnold Schoenberg
2006: Peter Ruzicka, German composer and artistic director, Lothar Bruckmeier, painter, Peter Wegner, computer scientist, Elisabeth Leonskaja, Russian pianist
2005: Gottfried Kumpf, painter, architect, sculptor, Georg Ratzinger, choirmaster, Heinz Zemanek, computer pioneer
2004: Oswald Oberhuber, artist
2003: Erich Schleyer, actor and author, Günther Granser, economist
2002: Fabio Luisi, Italian conductor, Kurt Rudolf Fischer, philosopher, Wolfdietrich Schmied-Kowarzik, philosopher; John Ross, chemist; Seiji Ozawa, conductor
2001: Klaus-Peter Sattler, composer, Hermann Maurer, computer scientist, Walter Homolka, rabbi; Hannspeter Winter, physicist; Johann Grander, inventor.
1999: Peter Simonischek, actor, Erich Gruen, historian.
1998: Senta Berger, actress, Kiki Kogelnik, artist (posthumously awarded), Edith Neumann, microbiologist.
1997: Herbert Willi, composer; Lucian O. Meysels, author; Ernest Manheim, American sociologist of Hungarian origin
1996: Ronald S. Calinger, American historian of Mathematics; Quirino Principe, Italian philosopher of music and dramatist
1989: Norbert Pawlicki, pianist and composer
1987: Alois Hergouth, writer and poet; Helen Adolf, literature scholar and linguist
1984: Frank Sinatra, singer and actor, Fritz Muliar, actor and director, Ludwig Schwarzer, painter
1983: Walter Bitterlich, forest scientist, Wolf Häfele, physicist
1981: Thomas Christian David, conductor, composer, flutist
1980: Alfred Uhl, composer
1978: Kurt Neumüller, pianist and pedagogue
1977: Wolfgang Rehm, musicologist
1976: Wolfgang Mayer König, writer
1975 Karl Menger, mathematician
1974: Erika Mitterer, writer; Marcel Rubin, composer; Arthur Hilton, chemist,
1971: Gustav Zelibor, pianist and conductor
1970: Enver Čolaković, writer and poet
1968: Alphons Barb, author
1965: Kurt Roger, Composer / Professor Georg Szell Conductor Nathan Milstein Violin
1961: Günther Baszel, artist; Ernst Lothar, author and director
1960: Karl Schiske, composer
Forfeiture of this honour became possible with Federal Law Gazette I No 128/2001, changing Act § 8a. It allows the government to strip recipients of their honours if deemed unworthy. The best known example of such a forfeiture is of the Nazi physician Heinrich Gross.
On August 5, 2008 the Austrian Science Minister Johannes Hahn decided not to withdraw the award from inventor Johann Grander. - see also Wikipedia German version and see also Austrian ministry
