Johannes Krahn

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Johannes Krahn (left) and an unidentified professor with students on a study trip to the Städelschule in the 1950s.

Johannes Krahn (born May 17, 1908 in Mainz , † October 17, 1974 in Orselina , Canton Ticino , Switzerland) was a German architect and university professor .

Life

Johannes Krahn completed his architecture studies in the years 1923 to 1929 at the technical colleges in Offenbach , at the Aachen School of Applied Arts and the Cologne Werkschulen , where he was a master student of Dominikus Böhm . Böhm was able to interest him in the subject of church building.

The meeting with the Offenbach architect Rudolf Schwarz , for whom he worked as an employee between 1928 and 1940, was important for his further professional career . He graduated as a civil engineer from the RWTH Aachen with Hans Karlinger . Between 1940 and 1945 Krahn held a leading position in Herbert Rimpl's architectural office in Berlin. His work at the Aachen School of Applied Arts, led by Schwarz, was also decisive. Since 1954 he has held a professorship for architecture at the Frankfurt Städelschule .

Johannes Krahn died on October 17, 1974 while on vacation in Orselina, Switzerland.

Buildings (selection)

gallery

  • Corpus Christi Church in Aachen (1930)

  • Paulskirche in Frankfurt am Main (reconstruction 1948)

  • Beehive house, Frankfurt am Main (1954)

  • St. Wendel, Frankfurt am Main (1957)

  • St. Martin, Idstein (1965)

  • Friedrich-Dessauer student residence in Frankfurt-Hausen (1966)

  • City-Haus I, Frankfurt am Main (1973)

  • Buschdorf (Bonn), St. Aegidius Church

Awards

In November 1954, a petrol station in Frankfurt am Main, Rheingau-Allee 33, was named an “exemplary building in the state of Hesse” by a jury convened by the Association of German Architects and the Hessian Minister of Finance . The jury included the following architects: Werner Hebebrand , Konrad Rühl , Sep Ruf and Ernst Zinsser .

literature

  • Karin Berkemann : Post-war churches in Frankfurt am Main (1945-76) (= monument topography Federal Republic of Germany; cultural monuments in Hesse ). Stuttgart 2013 [incl. Diss., Neuendettelsau, 2012].
  • Wilhelm Opatz , Deutscher Werkbund Hessen (ed.): Once praised and almost forgotten, modern churches in Frankfurt a. M. 1948-1973. Niggli-Verlag, Sulgen 2012, ISBN 978-3-7212-0842-9 .
  • Hanna Dannien-Maassen: Johannes Krahn (1908–1974). Church building between tradition and modernity. In: DAM Yearbook for Architecture. Prestel Verlag, Munich 1991.
  • Hans-Joachim Lorenz:  Krahn, Johannes. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-428-00193-1 , p. 661 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Commons : Johannes Krahn  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karin Berkemann: Idstein - St. Martin. In: Strasse der Moderne - Churches in Germany. German Liturgical Institute, accessed on May 18, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Award for exemplary buildings in the state of Hesse on November 6, 1954 . In: The Hessian Minister of Finance (Hrsg.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1955 no. 4 , p. 70 , point 75 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 3.6 MB ]).
personal data
SURNAME Krahn, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH May 17, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Mainz
DATE OF DEATH 17th October 1974
Place of death Orselina , Canton Ticino , Switzerland