Otto Pankok (1883 – 1966) in his 60-page picture cycle “The Passion” was retelling a biblical story but also reflecting the Nazi oppression, particularly of the Jews.
done in 1934
Image credit: Gallery Remmert
Pankok’s created charcoal drawings in 1933/34 at a time when the Nazis labelled him and his art as “degenerate”. Sixty of the drawings were published as, Die Passion in 60 Bildern, many copies of which were later confiscated.
- Title: Die Passion in 60 Bildern
- Author and Illustrator: Otto Pankok
- Introduction: Six pages of text
- Date of publication: 1936
- Publisher: Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag
- Place of publication: Berlin
- Printer: ?
- Copyright: Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag
- Dimensions: 4° 240 x 320mm
- Dust jacket: Yes
- slipcase: ?
- Binding: hard cover
- Boards: linen over boards with red printing on front and spine
- Language: German
- Paginated: unpaginated
- Printed: recto
- Edition: Trade only?
- Reproduced from charcoal drawings
- Description: 60 sheets of black and white illustrations
- With triptych as frontispiece
the centre flanked by the two thieves.
portion of the triptych.
Reprints
1970 (1975?)
- Published by Gütersloher Verlagshaus Gerd Mohn, Gütersloh 1970
- 2nd edition 1975. ISBN 3-579-03514-2
- Overall production: Mohndruck Reinhard Mohn OHG, Gütersloh
- In three-color offset printing
- on 150 g/m² wood-free yellowish-white offset printing paper
- Font: 12 point Gill (Monotype)
- Book design: H. P. Willberg
- Printed in Germany
- came in a slipcase
1982
- Published by Rudolf Dehnen Verlag, Düsseldorf;
- 4°
- 37 pages???
- 60 sheets
1986
- Published by Rudolf Dehnen Verlag, Düsseldorf
1992
- Published by Wienand Verlag, Köln:
- 166 pages??
- ISBN 387909313x
- with dust jacket