Hermann Krahforst

Hermann Krahforst (born November 12, 1872 in Friesdorf ; † September 21, 1943 in Aachen ) was a painter in Aachen.

Life

Hermann Krahforst was a student of the Lower Rhine painter Professor Stummel and Professor M. Feuerstein at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich . Krahforst was a member of the Catholic Student Union Carolingia Aachen in the KV . In 1909 he was also honorary philistine of the KStV Wiking Aachen in the KV because of his services to the KV .

Krahforst had his studio in Aachen and was a teacher at the Aachen School of Applied Arts .

Works

Krahforst was mainly active as a church painter, he painted many newly built churches in Aachen and the surrounding area, including St. Nikolaus and St. Paul in Aachen, the churches in Lobberich, Geilenkirchen, Hünshoven, Wassenberg and Willich, but also the Augustinus, built in 1913 -Church in Nordhorn . He created historical pictures for the district building in Heinsberg and the Dionysianum Rheine high school . In the newly built Kaiser-Karls-Gymnasium Aachen in 1906 , he provided the ground floor with ornamental paintings. Incidentally, Krahforst also worked as a portrait painter.

In 1907 he designed the new association coat of arms for the KV , which, in contrast to the usual overloading of other, especially student heraldry, was designed in clear forms with echoes of Art Nouveau and received great praise in the KV.

literature

• Siegfried Koß in Siegfried Koß, Wolfgang Löhr (Hrsg.): Biographisches Lexikon des KV. 1st part (= Revocatio historiae. Volume 2). SH-Verlag, Schernfeld 1991, ISBN 3-923621-55-8 , pp. 60-62 with additional information
• Museumsverein Aachen eV: The Aachen artists who died in the war in 1939/45 . Title addition: On the commemorative exhibition of the Aachen artists who died in the war - March 1946 - in the Suermondt Museum . Aachen 1946.