Otto Pankok (1883 – 1966) in his 60-page picture cycle “The Passion” was not just retelling a biblical story but also reflecting the Nazi oppression, particularly of the Jews.

Otto Pankok lithograph self-portrait
done in 1934
Photo of Otto Pankok 1938.
Image credit: Gallery Remmert

Pankok’s created charcoal drawings in 1933/34 at a time when the Nazis labeled him and his art as “degenerate”. The drawings were published in books that 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
Frontis is a triptych with Christ in
the centre flanked by the two thieves.
Title page and showing a
portion of the triptych.
Introduction facing copyright page

Reprints

1970 (1975?)

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

image credit: Antiquariat Plate
  • Published by Rudolf Dehnen Verlag, Düsseldorf;
  • 37 pages???
  • 60 sheets

1986

  • Published by Rudolf Dehnen Verlag, Düsseldorf

1992

Image credit: Antiquariat Behnke Buch
  • Published by Wienand Verlag, Köln:
  • 166 pages??
  • ISBN 387909313x
  • with dust jacket

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