Otto Pankok Foundation

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The Otto Pankok Foundation is dedicated to the artistic life's work of the draftsman, graphic artist and sculptor Otto Pankok . The purpose of the foundation is to preserve and maintain its work, to keep it closed and to make it accessible. The exhibition in the Otto Pankok Museum in Haus Esselt and the temporary loan of his works to museums serve this purpose .

The foundation is housed in the listed Haus Esselt in Hünxe . Pankok had his center of life there and lived there after completing his professorship at the Düsseldorf Art Academy .

Pankok's wife and daughter Eva founded the foundation here after Pankok's death with the aim of preserving his life's work and memories together with the Otto Pankok Society.

Otto Pankok Prize

Günter Grass was a student of Otto Pankok at the Düsseldorf Art Academy from 1948 to 1952. With an Otto Pankok Prize and the Foundation for the benefit of the Roma people established in Lübeck in 1997, he reminds that the artist Otto Pankok repeatedly drew attention to ostracized minorities, especially the " Gypsies ", in his socially critical work . The foundation established by Grass for the benefit of the Roma people aims to promote understanding of the characteristics of the Roma, to educate them about their cultural and social situation in the past and present and to contribute to tolerance. Journalistic, scientific, socio-political and artistic work whose cause and topic is the Roma people, in particular the Sinti and Roma in Germany, are funded .

The first recipient of the Otto Pankok Prize in 1999 was the filmmaker, publicist and civil rights activist Melanie Spitta . In 2002 the award was given to the doctor and human rights activist Ibrahim Hasani from Kosovo , in 2006 to the Kiel Sinti mediator model for exemplary integration work for Sinti children in Kiel schools and in 2009 to the human rights activist Lalla Weiss.

In 2014 the Hungarian sociologist and educator Reno Zsigó, founder and long-time director of the “Romano Kher” facility in Budapest and chairman of the Hungarian Roma parliament, received the award. He was an "independent and committed spokesman for political and cultural affairs of the Roma in Hungary," said the foundation. The art historian Tímea Junghaus and the “Gallery8 - Roma Contemporary Art Space” in Budapest received the Foundation's sponsorship award.

In 2019, Petra Rosenberg , Chairwoman of the State Association of German Sinti and Roma Berlin-Brandenburg received the award.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Günter Grass honors Melanie Spitta with the Otto Pankok Prize
  2. ↑ Otto Pankok Prize to Lalla Weiss
  3. ↑ Otto Pankok Prize goes to Roma activist Jeno Zsigó , Hamburger Abendblatt , June 23, 2014
  4. ↑ Günter Grass honors Hungarian Roma Jenő Zsigó , Focus , June 12, 2014
  5. ^ "Otto Pankok Prize" for human rights activist Petra Rosenberg Berliner Morgenpost, May 22, 2019