Bernhard Pankok

executed by the Vereinigte Werkstätten für Kunst im Handwerk, Munich
mahogany with leather upholstery

Franck Laigneau Antiquités, Paris
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2005

Adolf Schneck, Neue Möbel vom Jugendstil bis heute, Munich, 1962, p. 70 for a relatable example
Sonja Gunther, Interieurs um 1900: Bernhard Pankok, Bruno Paul und Richard Riemerschmid als Mitarbeiter der Verinigten Werkstätten für Kunst im Handwerk, Munich, 1971, pl. 54 for a drawing of the floral carving, pl. 55 for a relatable example
Hans Klaiber, Bernhard Pankok 1872-1943: Kunsthandwerk, Malerei, Architektur, Bühnenausstattungen, exh. cat., 24 May - 29 July 1973, Stuttgart, 1973, p. 70 for a relatable example
Peter Selz, Art Nouveau: New, revised edition, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York, 1975, p. 112 for a relatable example
Angelika Lorenz, Bernhard Pankok: Malerei, Graphik, Design im Prisma des Jugendstils, exh. cat., 14 September - 9 November 1986, Münster, 1986, pp. 32, 82 for relatable examples
Gudrun Wessing, Bernhard Pankok als Porträtmaler, Münster, 1988, pp, 62, 71, 220-221, 230-231 for a relatable example
Laurence Mouillefarine, "Explorateur des Arts Décoratifs", Architectural Digest, France, no. 62, December 2006 - January 2007, p. 105, illustrated
Werner Adriaenssens et al, Roberto Polo: The Eye, London, 2011, p. 427

Overall very good condition consistent with age and use. Minor scattered scuffs and scratches to the frame with a minor impression into the wood on the inside left arm proper, approximately 5 mm in diameter. A shallow dent to the top rear backrest, approximately 1 cm across. The leather with very minor scattered scuffs and hairline cracks throughout and appears stable. One small tear near the front right armrest proper with no loss of material.
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Four examples of this armchair are known. One example was bought by the Landesgewerbeamt, Stuttgart in 1899 at the exhibition Deutsche Kunstausstellung Dresden, and is now in the collection of the Landesmuseum Württemberg, Stuttgart (exhibition catalogue, op. cit., p. 82). That armchair is stamped 'V.W.' for the manufacturer and numbered. A second example, owned by Bernhard Pankok and sharing the same woven tapestry seat as the above, was sold at Sotheby's London (6 November, 2008, lot 20). A third example, with leather seat and sharing close stylistic similarities to the offered lot, is illustrated in Schneck, op. cit.