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Past winners of the Wolf Prize in Arts:

• 1981 Painting¹: Marc Chagall, Antoni Tapies
• 1982 Music¹: Vladimir Horowitz, Olivier Messiaen, Josef Tal
• 1983/4 Architecture¹: Ralph Erskine
• 1984/5 Sculpture¹: Eduardo Chillida
• 1986 Painting: Jasper Johns
• 1987 Music: Isaac Stern, Krzysztof Penderecki
• 1988 Architecture: Fumihiko Maki , Giancarlo de Carlo
• 1989 Sculpture: Claes Oldenburg
• 1990 Painting: Anselm Kiefer
• 1991 Music: Yehudi Menuhin, Luciano Berio
• 1992 Architecture: Frank Gehry, Jorn Utzon, Denys LasdunSir Denys Lasdun ( 8 September 1914- 11 January 2001) was an eminent English architect of the 20th century, particularly associated with the Modernist design of the Royal National Theatre on London's South Bank of the River Thames. Like other Modernist ar
• 1993 Sculpture: Bruce NaumanBruce Nauman (born 1941) is a contemporary American artist. His pluralistic practice spans a broad range of media including sculpture, photography, neon, video, drawing and performance. Much of his work is characterised by an interest in language which of
• 1994/5 Painting: Gerhard RichterGerhard Richter (born February 9, 1932) is a German artist. Life Gerhard Richter was born in Dresden, Germany, and grew up in the countryside, in Reichenau and Waltersdorf. He left school after tenth grade and apprenticed as an advertising and stage-set p
• 1995/6 Music: Zubin MehtaZubin Mehta (born April 29, 1936 in Bombay, India) is an internationally renowned conductor of European classical music. Zubin Mehta was born into an aristocratic Parsi family. His father Mehli Mehta was a violinist and founding conductor of the Bombay Sy, Gyorgy Ligeti
• 1996/7 Architecture: Frei Otto , Aldo van Eyck
• 1998 Sculpture: James Turrell
• 1999 Painting: Not awarded
• 2000 Music: Pierre BoulezPierre Boulez (born March 26, 1925) is a conductor and composer of classical music. He was born in Montbrison, France. He initially studied mathematics at Lyon before pursuing music at the Paris Conservatoire under Olivier Messiaen and Andree Vaurabourg (, Riccardo MutiRiccardo Muti (born July 28, 1941) is an Italian conductor best known for being the music director of Milan's La Scala opera house, a position he has held since 1986. Muti was born in Naples. In 1967, he won the Cantelli Prize for young conductors. From 1
• 2001 Architecture: Alvaro Sizalvaro Siza (Alvaro Joaquim de Meio Siza Vieira, born 25 June 1933 in Matosinhos), is a contemporary Portuguese architect. His poetic modernism draws on context to illuminate universal conditions. In 1992, he was awarded the Pritzker Prize and in 2001 he w
• 2002/3 Painting & Sculpture: Louise Bourgeois
• 2004 Music: Mstislav Rostropovich, Daniel Barenboim

¹ The prize rotates annually between architecture, music, painting and sculpture.