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Hugo Krayn

Hugo Krayn (1885-1919) was a German painter of the Berlin Secession. Krayn entered the  Berliner Kunstgewerbeschule (Berlin School of Applied Arts) in 1902 and became a student of Emil Orlik in his class for graphic arts and book art from 1905 to 1910. He contributed with twenty-eight images, black and white and color,  in the translation of Charles Kingsley's children's book  Die Wasserkinder (The Water Children), published in Germany by Georg Westermann Verlag in 1912. In the years after his themes were industrial Berlin, its inhabitants on the streets and in their working world. Even during a relaxing stay in Davos, his impressions were more of the narrowness of the village than the monumentality of the mountain landscape. Krayn exhibited in the Berlin Secession, of which he became a member in 1915, and in the Deutschen Künstlerbund (German Artists' Association). The city of Berlin purchased his paintings. In Wiesbaden he was represented at the Great Art Exhibition of 1918. Before a redefinition of his painting style Krayn died of the worldwide Spanish flu. In 1937, as part of the Nazi Entartete Kunst (Degenerate Art) campaign, his lithograph Vierter Klasse (Fourth Class) (1916) was confiscated from the Kunsthalle Hamburg and subsequently destroyed. A large part of his works were lost in an air raid on Berlin. Some of his works are still in private collections.


March 23rd,  2025

 

 
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