Bernhard Pankok

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Self-Portrait (1898)
Self-Portrait with a Brush (1922)
Portrait graphic Bernhard Pankoks by Emil Orlik (1903)
Emil Stumpp : Bernhard Pankok (1926)

Bernhard Pankok (born May 16, 1872 in Münster , † April 5, 1943 in Baierbrunn ) was a German painter , graphic artist , architect and designer . His works are shaped by the transition between Art Nouveau and International Style .

Life

Bernhard Pankok studied painting at the Düsseldorf Art Academy from 1889 to 1891 . There were Heinrich Lauenstein , Adolf Schill , Hugo Crola and Peter Janssen the Elder his teachers. In 1892 he opened a studio in Munich and worked as a freelance artist, graphic artist and illustrator for the magazines PAN and Jugend . From then on he lived in Munich until 1902. There he was also a co-founder of the “ United Workshops for Art in Crafts ”. With Otto Eckmann , Richard Riemerschmid and Bruno Paul , he was one of those artists for Max Osborn who “made the transition from free to applied art by, almost as uomini universali in the Renaissance sense, gradually all areas of art and of the industry moved into the circle of their efforts. "

In 1901 he married Antonette (Toni) Coppenrath (1870–1920), a sister of the landscape painter Ferdinand Florenz Coppenrath.

Stuttgart School of Applied Arts

From 1902 on he taught and lived in Stuttgart . In 1913 the new building of the arts and crafts school , whose director he became in the same year and remained until 1937, was completed and moved into on the Stuttgart Killesberg with his formative contribution . Above all, his furniture and his book graphics (such as the depictions of the rooms and the catalog of the Paris World Exhibition in 1900 ) were recognized.

In 1907 Pankok became a member of the Berlin Secession and the newly founded German Werkbund . In 1914 he was one of the leading artists at the Cologne Werkbund exhibition . Bernhard Pankok was also a board member of the German Association of Artists . In 1924 he married Marianne Geyer (1891–1941). In 1930 he became a foreign member of the Munich Secession . In 1932 he was appointed honorary member of the Westphalian Art Association in Münster, and one year later became an honorary member of the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich .

When Bernhard Pankok retired at the end of the summer semester of 1937 - despite pressure, unlike various of his professor colleagues, he had not become a member of the NSDAP - the Stuttgarter Neue Tagblatt wrote : “With Stuttgart and the arts and crafts school, the name Bernhard Pankok becomes his significant artistic personality must always be connected. "

The State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart , which emerged in 1941 from the organizational connection between the former academy and the former arts and crafts school, made him an honorary member on the occasion of his seventieth birthday in 1942. The following year, Pankok died six weeks before his 71st birthday.

During the Second World War, the Pankok plant was severely impaired as a result of war damage.

literature

Web links

Commons : Bernhard Pankok  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Museum Kunstpalast : Artists from the Düsseldorf School of Painting (selection, as of November 2016, PDF )
  2. ↑ Max Osborn: Master book of art. Ullstein, Berlin / Vienna 1910, pp. 445–446
  3. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Ordinary members of the German Association of Artists since it was founded in 1903 / Pankok, Bernhard ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed December 4, 2015)
  4. ^ Ostendorff Gallery
  5. ↑ Professor Pankok has retired . In: Stuttgarter Neues Tagblatt , No. 450, 25./26. September 1937, p. 7.
personal data
SURNAME Pankok, Bernhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pankok, Bernhard Wilhelm Maria (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and designer
DATE OF BIRTH May 16, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Muenster
DATE OF DEATH April 5, 1943
Place of death Baierbrunn