Bernhard Pankok

Bernhard Wilhelm Maria Pankok (16 May 1872, in Münster – 5 April 1943, in Baierbrunn) was a German painter, graphic artist, architect, and designer.

His furniture and book design, such as the catalog for the German section of the Exposition Universelle (1900) in Paris, have garnered him the most recognition.

From 1889 to 1891, he studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, with Heinrich Lauenstein, Adolf Schill, Hugo Crola and Johann Peter Theodor Janssen.

[1] He opened a studio in Munich in 1892; working as a freelance artist, graphic designer and illustrator for the magazines Pan and Jugend.

On the thirtieth anniversary of his death, in 1973, the Landesmuseum Württemberg presented a major retrospective of his works.