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Article: AUSTRIA: BUSINESS LOVES ART - MAECENAS ART SPONSORSHIP PRIZE AWARDED
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- November 20, 2006
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The office of the Chancellary of Austria issued the following news release:
On 15 November 2006 the Austrian art sponsorship prize "Maecenas 2006" had been awarded at Hotel Imperial in Vienna. The award was granted in different categories by the independent economic committee "Initiativen Wirtschaft für Kunst" (IWK) together with the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (ORF). This year 143 enterprises had participated in the competition with 172 projects.
The best "newcomer" was Graz-Köflacher Bahn und Busbetrieb GmbH (GKB) with a project in which Austrian artists such as Erwin Wurm and Eva Schlegel develop creative designs for train stations and train cars in Styria. In the category ...