Awards from the Artoteca Fund

1st June Award

In accord with the Statute of Pilsen City, the 1st June Award commemorating public resistance of the inhabitants of Pilsen City against totalitarian regime at the year 1953 (Day of the first ring) is awarded to the artists for an important contribution to the clarification and enforcement of the principles of democracy, freedom and justice and for the consistent defence of human rights and freedom by means of public press, radio and television.

The award can be granted for the long-term journalism activities and for the systematic promotion of the above-described principles even for the individual works that contribute significantly to their understanding or to the enforcement of the principles of democratic legal state.

1st June Award consists of the traditional symbol of the Day of the first ring, which is a small bell with the inscription "1st June Award" , and of material gift, which is usually artwork from the fund of the Artoteca of Pilsen City.

The following artworks were given to the prize winners of the 1st June Award during the years 1996 - 2005 from the collection of he Artoteca of Pilsen City:

Artwork name

Author

Year of award

Prize winner

Wave Motion

Miroslav Tázler

1996

Roger Scruton

Gate

Jiří Patera

1997

Jefim Fištejn

Drawing III.

Jarmila Dytrychová

1998

Adam Michnik

Calvary

Miloslav Čelakovský

1999

Vilém Prečan

Birds life I.

Milan Hůrka

2000

Ota Ulč

Drawing I.

Jarmila Dytrychová

2001

Petra Procházková

Beams

Helena Vendová

2002

Jan Šibík

Pieta

Vladimír Líbal

2003

Jaromír Štětina

Gargoyle

Jaroslav Zapletal

2005

Ivan Medek

Protectorate landscape

Jiří Patera

2010

Jiří Gruntorád

Meditation

Jiří Kornatovský

2011

Dana Němcová

No name

Ivan Vala

2014

Bohumil Doložal

Ivy on the corner

Luboš Vetengl

2015

Rudolf Battěk

Perak with the ball

Jan Vlček

2016

Ivan Binar

Alone

Jiří Kornatovský

2017

Ladislav Hejdánek


Other awards from the fund of the Artoteca of Pilsen City:

Award Design of the year 1997 - Birds´life II., author - Milan Hůrka

Award Interior of the year 1998 - Beams, author - Helena Vendová

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