ART COMPETITIONS AT THE OLYMPICS 1912-48
The competitions in architecture, literature, music, painting and sculpture, or the cultural olympiad as it was sometimes called, were not an actual part of the Olympics, but held in connection with it. It was discontinued after the London games in 1948. Medals taken in the Arts are not counted in the International Olympic Committee medal database.
Architecture |
1 | NAT | 2 | NAT | 3 | NAT | TYPE |
| 1912 | Eugène-Eduard Monod/Alphonse Laverrière | SUI | Not awarded | Not awarded | |||
| 1920 | Not awarded | Holger Sinding-Larsen | NOR | Not awarded | |||
| 1924 | Not awarded | Alfred Hajós/Deszö Lauber | HUN | Julien Médecin | MON | ||
| 1928 | Jan Wils | NED | Ejnar Mindedal Rasmussen | DEN | Jacques Lambert | FRA | Architectural design |
| 1928 | Alfred Hensel | GER | Jacques Lambert | FRA | Max Laeuger | GER | Town planning |
| 1932 | France | FRA | John Russell Pope | USA | Richard Konwiarz | GER | Architectural design |
| 1932 | John Hughes | GBR | Jens Klemmensen | DEN | André Verbeke | BEL | Town planning |
| 1936 | Hermann Kutschera | AUT | Werner March | GER | Hermann Stiegholzer/Herbert Kastinger | AUT | Architectural design |
| 1936 | Werner March/Walter March | GER | Charles Downing Lay | USA | Theo Nussbaum | GER | Municipal planning |
| 1948 | Adolf Hoch  |
AUT | Alfred Rinesch | AUT | Nils Olsson | SWE | Architectural design |
| 1948 | Yrjö Lindegren | FIN | Werner Schindler/Edy Knupfer | SUI | Ilmari Niemeläinen | FIN | Town planning |
Literature |
1 | NAT | 2 | NAT | 3 | NAT | TYPE |
| 1912 | Pierre de Frédy | FRA | Not awarded | Not awarded | |||
| 1920 | Raniero Nicolai | ITA | Theodore Andrea Cook | GBR | Maurice Bladel | BEL | |
| 1924 | Géo-Charles (Charles Louis Proper Guyot) | FRA | Josef Petersen | DEN | Charles Gonnet | FRA | |
| Margaret Stuart | GBR | Oliver Gogarty | IRL | ||||
| 1928 | Kazimierz Wierzynski | POL | Rudolf G. Binding | GER | Johannes Weltzer | GER | Lyric works |
| 1928 | Not awarded | Lauro de Bosis | ITA | Not awarded | Dramatic works | ||
| 1928 | Ferenc Mezö | HUN | Ernst Weiss | GER | Carel Scharten/Margo Scharten-Antink | LUX | Epic works |
| 1932 | Paul Bauer | GER | Josef Petersen | DEN | Not awarded | ||
| 1936 | Felix Dhünen | GER | Bruno Fattori | ITA | Hans Stoiber | AUT | Dramatic works |
| 1936 | Urho Karhumäki  |
FIN | Wilhelm Ehmer | GER | Jan Parandowski | POL | Epic works |
| 1948 | Aale Tynni | FIN | Ernst van Heerden | RSA | Gilbert Proteau | FRA | Lyric works |
| 1948 | Giani Stuparich | ITA | Josef Petersen | DEN | Éva Földes | HUN | Epic works |
Music |
1 | NAT | 2 | NAT | 3 | NAT | TYPE |
| 1912 | Riccardo Barthelemy | ITA | Not awarded | Not awarded | |||
| 1920 | Georges Monier | BEL | Oreste Riva | ITA | Not awarded | ||
| 1928 | Not awarded | Not awarded | Rudolph Simonsen | DEN | Orchestra | ||
| 1932 | Not awarded | Josef Suk | TCH | Not awarded | |||
| 1936 | Paul Höffer | GER | Kurt Thomas | GER | Harald Genzmer | GER | Solo and Chorus |
| 1936 | Werner Egk
 Werner Egk. (Source: allmusic.com) |
GER | Lino Liviabella | ITA | Jaroslav Kricka | TCH | Orchestra |
| 1948 | Not awarded | Not awarded | Gabriele Bianchi | ITA | Vocal | ||
| 1948 | Not awarded | Jean Weinzweig | CAN | Sergio Lauricella | ITA | Instrumental and chamber | |
| 1948 | Zbigniew Turski | POL | Kalervi Tuukkanen | FIN | Erling Brene | DEN | Choral and orchestral |
Painting |
1 | NAT | 2 | NAT | 3 | NAT | TYPE |
| 1912 | Giovanni Pellegrini | ITA | Not awarded | Not awarded | |||
| 1920 | Not awarded | Henriette Brossin de Polanska | FRA | Alfred Ost | BEL | ||
| 1924 | Jean Jacoby | LUX | Jack Butler Yeats | IRL | Johan van Hell | NED | |
| 1928 | Isaac Israëls | NED | Laura Knight | GBR | Walther Klemm | GER | Painting |
| 1928 | Jean Jacoby | LUX | Alexandra Virot | FRA | Wladyslaw Skocylas | POL | Drawings |
| 1928 | William Nicholson | GBR | Carl Moos | SUI | Max Feldbauer | GER | Graphic works |
| 1932 | David Wallin |
SWE | Ruth Miller | USA | Not awarded | Painting | |
| 1932 | Lee Blair | USA | Percy Crosby | USA | Gerhard Westermann | NED | Watercolors and drawings |
| 1932 | Joseph Golinkin | USA | Janina Konarska
 Janina Konarska. One of a handfull of female medalists. (Source: wikipedia). |
POL | Joachim Karsch | GER | Prints |
| 1936 | Not awarded | Rudolf Eisenmenger | AUT | Ryuji Fujita | JPN | Painting | |
| 1936 | Not awarded | Romano Dazzi | ITA | Sujaku Suzuki | JPN | Watercolors and drawings | |
| 1936 | Alex Diggelmann | SUI | Alfred Hierl | GER | Stanislav Ostoja-Chrostowski | POL | Commercial graphic art |
| 1948 | Alfred Thomson | GBR | Giovanni Stradone | ITA | Letitia Hamilton | IRL | Oils and watercolors |
| 1948 | Albert Decaris | FRA | John Copley | GBR | Walter Battiss | RSA | Engravings and etchings |
| 1948 | Not awarded | Alex Diggelmann | SUI | Alex Diggelmann | SUI | Applied arts and crafts | |
Sculpture |
1 | NAT | 2 | NAT | 3 | NAT | TYPE |
| 1912 | Walter Winans  |
USA | Georges Dubois | FRA | Not awarded | ||
| 1920 | Albéric Collin | BEL | Simon Goossens | BEL | Alphonse De Cuyper | BEL | |
| 1924 | Konstantinos Dimitriadis | GRE | Frantz Heldenstein | LUX | Jean René Gauguin | DEN | |
| Claude-León Mascaux | FRA | ||||||
| 1928 | Paul Landowski | FRA | Milo Martin | SUI | Renée Sintenis | GER | Statues |
| 1928 | Edwin Grienauer | AUT | Chris van der Hoef | LUX | Edwin Scharff | GER | Reliefs and medallions |
| 1932 | Mahonri Young | USA | Miltiades Manno | HUN | Jakub Obrovský | TCH | Statues |
| 1932 | Józef Klukowski | POL | Frederick MacMonnies | USA | R. Tait McKenzie | CAN | Reliefs and medallions |
| 1936 | Farpi Vignoli | ITA | Arno Breker | GER | Stig Blomberg | SWE | Statues |
| 1936 | Emil Sutor | GER | Józef Klukowski | POL | Not awarded | Reliefs | |
| 1936 | Not awarded | Luciano Mercante | ITA | Josue Dupon | BEL | Medals | |
| 1948 | Gustaf Nordahl | SWE | Chintanomi Kar | GBR | Hubert Yencesse | FRA | Statues |
| 1948 | Not awarded | Not awarded | Rosamund Fletcher | GBR | Reliefs | ||
| 1948 | Not awarded | Oskar Thiede | AUT | Edwin Grienauer | AUT | Medals and plaques |
MEDALTABLE |
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| Country | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total | Medalpoints |
| Germany | 7 | 7 | 10 | 24 | 45 |
| Italy | 5 | 7 | 2 | 14 | 31 |
| France | 5 | 4 | 5 | 14 | 28 |
| United States | 4 | 5 | 9 | 22 | |
| Great Britain | 3 | 5 | 1 | 9 | 20 |
| Austria | 3 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 18 |
| Poland | 3 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 16 |
| Switzerland | 2 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 15 |
| Belgium | 2 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 13 |
| Denmark | 5 | 3 | 8 | 13 | |
| Finland | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 12 |
| Luxemburg | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 11 |
| Netherlands | 2 | 2 | 4 | 8 | |
| Sweden | 2 | 2 | 4 | 8 | |
| Hungary | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 8 |
| Czechoslovakia | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| Ireland | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| Greece | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| Canada | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| South Africa | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| Norway | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||
| Japan | 2 | 2 | 2 | ||
| Monaco | 1 | 1 | 1 |