Bernhard Pankok

Jugendstil Wallpaper Design

watercolor, 1900

 

Bernhard Pankok (Münster (Westfalen) 1872-1943 Baierbrunn)

Jugendstil Wallpaper Design

1900

gouache on brown-grey laid paper, laid down on cardboard

36 x 24 cm

signed and dated lower right in watercolor (in reddish brown with brush): "B. Pankok 1900"


inscribed lower left in watercolor:  "M. 1:10-" [probably signifying 1:10 scale]


inscribed in pencil lower left in another hand: "V.W. Mod. 807," referencing V(ereinigte). W(erkstätten).  Mod(ell). 807 [United Workshops, Model 807]


stamped at top right: "Vereinigte Werkstätten für Kunst im Handwerk Act ges München" ["United Workshops for Art in Handicrafts Munich"] 


in yet another hand, on the cardboard mount at lower left in pencil inscribed: "Mod. 807. 5009.  Dresden."; and on the cardboard mount at lower right in pencil inscribed: "Prof. B. Pankok."


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Discussion:


In Munich, in 1898, Bernhard Pankok was a co-founder of the Vereinigten Werkstätten für Kunst im Handwerk [United Workshops for Artistry in Craftsmanship], an artist-run cooperative dedicated to the production, promotion, and sale of Jugendstil (German Art Nouveau) applied art.  It was the Munich and Bremen forerunner and analogue of the Wiener Werkstätte in Vienna.  JD



"Imaginative, softly swinging ornamentation with floral echoes in a harmonious coloring. The decorative design was created for the Vereinigte Werkstätten für Kunst im Handwerk AG, Munich, with their stamp at the top right. Pankok himself co-founded the Munich United Workshops in 1898, together with F.A.O. Krueger, Bruno Paul and Richard Riemerschmidt. Their goal was to unite the art genres in the sense of a total work of art and to dovetail artistic designs with manual production in order to counter industrial production with a new awareness of quality."  B (translation from the German original)



References:


See Udo Grote and Hans Galen, eds., Bernhard Pankok - Münster und das Münsterland (Münster in Westfalen: Aschendorff Verlag, 1986), Nr. 223, Fig. m. (described there "as part of Pankok's interior decoration as a design for a wallpaper").  Catalogue of an exhibition at Stadtmuseum Münster.

 

Emma Mohr (1877 - 1967, active in Stuttgart)

Portrait of Bernhard Pankok

1923

etching

plate 30 x 24,5 cm; sheet 37,7 x 35 cm 

signed in pencil lower left: Emma Mohr 1923

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condition: outside the image, a damp stain at the top right corner of the margin; also, some handling creases in the margins


Discussion:


"Signed and inscribed original etching by the expressionist from Stuttgart, who learned her craft from Bernhard Pankok, with whom she was friends throughout her life.  In the Weimar Republic, Emma Mohr was a well-known artist who was represented in at least one exhibition every year."

 

"Emma Mohr completed an apprenticeship with Bernhard Pankok in the Kunstgewerblichen Lehr- und Versuchswerkstatt [arts and crafts training and experimental workshop] in Stuttgart from 1906 to 1914.

Afterwards she worked with Bernhard Pankok on various projects, e.g., on the designs of theater scenery.  At this time, she came into the circle of artists around Adolf Hölzl, who brought her closer to Expressionism.  She participated in the large exhibition of the Stuttgart Secession in 1927, represented by two paintings.

And she was a member of the württembergischen Malerinnenvereins [Württemberg Female Painters' Association]."


Signed and inscribed original etching by the expressionist from Stuttgart, who learned her craft from Bernhard Pankok, with whom she was friends throughout her life - in the Weimar Republic, Emma Mohr was a well-known artist who was represented in at least one exhibition every year

Emma Mohr completed an apprenticeship with Bernhard Pankok in the arts and crafts training and experimental workshop in Stuttgart from 1906 to 1914.
Afterwards she worked with Bernhard Pankok on various projects, e.g. on the designs of theater scenery
At this time she came into the circle of artists around Adolf Hölzl, who brought her closer to Expressionism
She was at the large exhibition of the Stuttgart Secession in 1927
represented by two paintings
Emma Mohr was a member of the Württemberg Female Painters' Association
Signed and inscribed original etching by the expressionist from Stuttgart, who learned her craft from Bernhard Pankok, with whom she was friends throughout her life - in the Weimar Republic, Emma Mohr was a well-known artist who was represented in at least one exhibition every year

Emma Mohr completed an apprenticeship with Bernhard Pankok in the arts and crafts training and experimental workshop in Stuttgart from 1906 to 1914.
Afterwards she worked with Bernhard Pankok on various projects, e.g. on the designs of theater scenery
At this time she came into the circle of artists around Adolf Hölzl, who brought her closer to Expressionism
She was at the large exhibition of the Stuttgart Secession in 1927
represented by two paintings
Emma Mohr was a member of the Württemberg Female Painters' Association
Signed and inscribed original etching by the expressionist from Stuttgart, who learned her craft from Bernhard Pankok, with whom she was friends throughout her life - in the Weimar Republic, Emma Mohr was a well-known artist who was represented in at least one exhibition every year

Emma Mohr completed an apprenticeship with Bernhard Pankok in the arts and crafts training and experimental workshop in Stuttgart from 1906 to 1914.
Afterwards she worked with Bernhard Pankok on various projects, e.g. on the designs of theater scenery
At this time she came into the circle of artists around Adolf Hölzl, who brought her closer to Expressionism
She was at the large exhibition of the Stuttgart Secession in 1927
represented by two paintings
Emma Mohr was a member of the Württemberg Female Painters' Association


For other portraits of Bernhard Pankok, see the Emil Orlik entry, above, on this, Symbolismus, website.

 

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