Oil/canvas, still life with vase and chair, monogrammed HK lower left, framed, approx. 56 x 43 cm, with frame approx. 59 x 46 cm, student at the Krefeld and Hamburg School of Applied Arts, initially influenced by Expressionism, later New Objective style or Linear-surface image composition, director of the State Art School in Berlin, dismissed by the National Socialists, church commissions for glass painting, from 1949 director of the Düsseldorf Art Academy