Who was Otto Pankok, whose museum is at Haus Esselt?

He was a German painter and printmaker, a former professor at the Düsseldorf art academy, who bought the estate in 1958 and set up his studio in the former barn.

Can visitors see the manor house and garden, not just the museum?

Yes, guided tours cover the museum as well as the manor house and the garden grounds.

Since when has the museum existed?

Pankok's daughter and widow founded the museum in 1968, two years after the artist's death.

Where exactly is Haus Esselt located?

It stands in Drevenack, a district of the municipality of Hünxe, in the Kreis Wesel, North Rhine-Westphalia, on the banks of the river Issel.

Haus Esselt

Hünxe

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Haus Esselt stands in Hünxe (Kreis Wesel), in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The building is a listed Baudenkmal. No visits are on record for this building.

Haus Esselt is a former manor estate in Drevenack, a district of Hünxe, standing on the banks of the river Issel. The present baroque main house, which replaced a late medieval building, has housed since 1968 a museum dedicated to the painter and printmaker Otto Pankok, who lived there in his final years after buying the property in 1958. The former farm buildings, south of the manor house, now serve the museum and educational purposes connected to the artist. A few remains of the old moat that once surrounded the estate can still be seen on site.

What to know

The house holds the Otto Pankok museum, dedicated to the painter and printmaker who lived there until his death.
Guided tours of the museum, the manor house and the garden are offered.
The property is listed as a Baudenkmal in North Rhine-Westphalia.
The site lies along several hiking and cycling trails within the Hohe Mark nature park.
No opening hours, prices or visit duration are given in the verified facts, so it is worth checking in advance.

Where this château is

Hünxe · Kreis Wesel · Nordrhein-Westfalen

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Hünxe, Kreis Wesel

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Heritage status: Baudenkmal in Nordrhein-Westfalen

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Who was Otto Pankok, whose museum is at Haus Esselt?: He was a German painter and printmaker, a former professor at the Düsseldorf art academy, who bought the estate in 1958 and set up his studio in the former barn.
Can visitors see the manor house and garden, not just the museum?: Yes, guided tours cover the museum as well as the manor house and the garden grounds.
Since when has the museum existed?: Pankok's daughter and widow founded the museum in 1968, two years after the artist's death.
Where exactly is Haus Esselt located?: It stands in Drevenack, a district of the municipality of Hünxe, in the Kreis Wesel, North Rhine-Westphalia, on the banks of the river Issel.