Based on the principle that creative arts play an important role in democratic society, it was founded in 1970 by Willy Brandt acting on a proposal by the then chairman of the German Federation of Artists.
Hofheinz-Dörings work is part of the collections in the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, the Schiller-Nationalmuseum Marbach, the gallery of Stuttgart, in the city's art museum Spendhaus in Reutlingen, the collection of the Bundesland Baden-Württemberg and the German Bundeskunstsammlung.