The Art Prize of the Leipziger Volkszeitung will be awarded for the 12th time in 2017. The prize-winner Benedikt Leonhardt (*1984) studied at the Leipzig Academy of Visual Arts from 2004 to 2016 and was a student in the Astrid Klein masterclasses.

Award winners 1995 - 2015: Via Lewandowsky (1995), Neo Rauch (1997), Jörg Herold (1999), Tamara Grcic (2001), Daniel Roth (2003), Matthias Weischer (2005), Claudia Angelmaier (2007), Julius Popp (2009), Jochen Plogsties (2011), Sebastian Nebe (2013) and Owen Gump (2015).