Sinebrychoff and Didrichsen Among Rogatchi Award Winners

Two leading art museums, world-renowned writer and composer,

and the families behind all of them are the laureates of The Rogatchi

Foundation Culture for Humanity Life Achievement Award 2020.

Awarded are people and institutions from Finland, Italy, Israel,

Lithuania, Belgium and Canada.

  

The Rogatchi Foundation is very pleased to announce the laureats

for its Culture for Humanity Life Achievement Family Award 2020.

The Rogatchi Foundation Culture for Humanity Award is the new

edition of the Foundation traditional Humanist of the Year Award.

The evolving of the new Award had been decided due to the

prevailing Culture for Humanity mission of the Foundation

following its Culture for Humanity Global Initiative adopted in

March 2020 to respond to the challenges caused by the pandemic.

Culture for Humanity is awarded annually for outstanding

contribution based on deep conviction, professionalism, and

dedication to culture combined with aspiration and will to

contribute into the public cultural and psychological welfare via

arts, culture and humanism, and conducted on the highest level of

it.

 

The Rogatchi Foundation in its Culture for Humanity Annual

Award seeks to recognise the people and the institutions which,

working diligently and following their convictions, have created

much needed cultural contributions that affects society in the deep

way, reaches wide public and creates long-lasting impact.

Among the Foundation previous laureates is world-famous

architect, the author of POLIN Museum prof. Rainer Mahlamäki ,

medical international star prof. Toivo T. Salmi, outstanding musician

maestro Evgeny Kissin , famous sculptor and philanthropist Varda

Yoran , founder of the Italian National Il Volo di Pegaso Arts,

Literature and Music Award, chair of the International Rare Disease

Research Consortium prof. Domenica Taruscio , and many other

outstanding humanists who contribute to the cultural development

of society in a deep way on a high level.

 

In this year 2020, The Rogatchi Foundation annual Award has been

for the first time awarded also to the institutions and the families

while previously it has been traditionally awarded to the

individuals. The changes in the Award policy reflects the needs of

the society: cultural institutions being itself under the serious strain

due to the various pandemic restrictions, does help people to cope

with the difficult realities caused by the covid-19 pandemic; and

family traditions are adding more strength into the activities of the

people and institutions, thus strengthening the role of positive

forces and active humanism in our way of life in the changed world

of today.

 

Based on these considerations, the Board of The Rogatchi

Foundation has decided to award its first Culture for Humanity

Annual Award in the motion of Life Achievement Family Award to all

our laureates in 2020.

 

Following the Foundation tradition, the laureates are awarded with

custom-made The Rogatchi Foundation Culture for Humanity

Award, Special Diploma, and original artwork.

 

Culture for Humanity Award is manufactured in Finland from a

solid piece of crystal rock of highest quality specially for The

Rogatchi Foundation. The Award is based on Michael Rogatchi’s

Heart Song artwork.

 

The Rogatchi Foundation Culture for Humanity Life Achievement

Family Award 2020 laureates are:

 

● Sinebrychoff Art Museum/Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki,

Finland - in honor of the 100th anniversary ( to be celebrated

in 2021) of Paul and Fanny Sinebrychoff donating their

unique art collection to the public, for outstanding Tiepolo:

Venice in the North art exhibition ( 17.09.2020 - 10.01.2021),

and important contribution to public cultural life in Finland

in the extremely difficult realities of the covid-19 pandemic,

with the special notion of the exhibition’s curator, the chief

curator of Sinebrychoff Art Museum Dr Ira Westergard and the

Museum’s director Dr Kirsi Eskelinen.

Art award: Michael Rogatchi . Nocturne. 2013.

 

The chief

curator of Sinebrychoff Art Museum Dr Ira Westergard (left) and the

Museum’s director Dr Kirsi Eskelinen.

 

 

● The Didrichsen Art Museum , Helsinki, Finland – in honour

of the 55th anniversary of the Gunnar and Marie-Louise

Didrichsen family’s donation of their rare art collection to the

Finnish public ( celebrated in 2020), for extraordinary

Becoming van Gogh exhibition ( 05.09. 2020 – 31.01.2021) and

great contribution into public cultural life in Finland in the

very daring circumstances of the covid-19 pandemic, with the

special notion of the exhibition’s main organisers, the former

director of the Museum Peter Didrichsen and the current

director of the Museum Maria Didrichsen .

Art award: Inna Rogatchi. Thinking on Vincent. 2020.

 

The former

director of the Museum Peter Didrichsen and the current

director of the Museum Maria Didrichsen.

 The article is based on the Rogatchi Foundation press release dated 21 December 2020.