Ernst L. Freud

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Ernst at the age of six (front right)

Ernst L [ucie] Freud (born April 6, 1892 in Vienna , † April 7, 1970 in London ) was an Austro-British architect .

Life

Ernst Ludwig Freud was the fourth child of the doctor and founder of psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud and his wife Martha, geb. Bernays . From 1911 to 1913 he studied architecture at the Vienna University of Technology . In 1912/1913 he was a private student of Adolf Loos . In 1912 he went on a study trip to Italy and the Balkan Peninsula with Richard Neutra . From 1913 to 1919 he studied at the Technical University of Munich , interrupted from serving as a soldier in the First World War .

In 1920 he settled in Berlin and initially built residential buildings in the expressionist style for doctors . His main work of classical modernism, the Villa Frank, showed the clear influence of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe .

In 1933 Freud emigrated to Great Britain ; there he designed residential buildings in the international style . He also edited his father's correspondence, who also emigrated to England in 1938 with the rest of the family, including Ernst Ludwig's sister Anna Freud .

With his wife Lucie Freud geb. Ernst Ludwig Freud had three sons, including the painter Lucian Freud and the writer and politician Clement Freud .

Lucie and EL Freud are buried in Freud Corner in Golders Green Crematorium, London.

Belvedere Court, London (1939)

buildings

  • 1921–1922: Residence for Dr. Schimek, Halmstrasse 10a / 11 in Berlin-Westend (demolished in 1973)
  • 1921–1922: Levy / Hofer double house, Im Dol 44 / 44a in Berlin-Dahlem (destroyed)
  • 1921–1922: Residence for Dr. Maretzki, Reichensteiner Weg in Berlin-Dahlem
  • 1925–1926: Residence for Dr. med. Adriana Lampl, Waldmeisterstraße 2 in Berlin-Grunewald (changed 1954–1956, interior not preserved)
  • 1927: Renovation of a house for Hermine Schade van Westrum, Virchowstraße 19 in Potsdam
  • 1927–1929: Tobacco store of the “Problem” cigarette factory , Greifswalder Strasse 212/213 in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg (heavily modified)
  • 1928: Reconstruction of a house for Eugen Buchthal, Halmstrasse 13/14 in Berlin-Westend
  • 1928–1930: country house for the banker Dr. Theodor Frank, Auf dem Franzensberg 1–3 in Geltow -Baumgartenbrück
  • 1930–1931: House Scherk in Berlin-Lankwitz , Mozartstrasse 10
  • 1937: London housing complex, Frognal Close 1-6
  • around 1938/1939: Remodeling of house 20 Maresfield Gardens, London-Hampstead for Freud's parents (today Museum for Sigmund Freud )
  • 1940: Wartime Meals Center, Good Housekeeping Inst. 30 Grosvenor Gardens, London
  • around 1939: Belvedere Court apartments, Lyttleton Road, London-Hampstead
  • 1955: Flats 43 Elsworthy Road, London
  • 1955: Stepney Green Synagogue, London

literature

  • Volker M. Welter: Ernst L. Freud, Architect: The Case of the Modern Bourgeois Home . Berghahn Books, 2011, ISBN 978-0-85745-233-7 .
  • Volker M. Welter: Ernst L. Freud and the Landhaus Frank. A modern house near Berlin . Published by the Centrum Judaicum , Hentrich & Hentrich, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-95565-073-5 (= Jewish miniatures , volume 160).
  • Freud, Ernst , in: Élisabeth Roudinesco ; Michel Plon: Dictionary of Psychoanalysis: Names, Countries, Works, Terms . Translation from French. Vienna: Springer, 2004, ISBN 3-211-83748-5 , pp. 282f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The middle initial L stands for Lucie , not for Ludwig . Ernst Freud added the initial to his name when he married in 1920. See VM Welter, Ernst L. Freud, Architect (Oxford, 2012), p. 34. See also https://deu.archinform.net/arch/3326.htm
  2. ↑ Fig. In: Elisabath M. Hajos / Leopold Zahn: Berliner Architektur der Nachkriegszeit, Berlin: Albertus 1928, p. 45, p. 128.
  3. ↑ bldam
  4. ↑ Fig. In: Elisabath M. Hajos / Leopold Zahn: Berlin architecture of the post-war period, Berlin: Albertus 1928, p. 80.
  5. ↑ see also the list of architectural monuments in Schwielowsee
  6. ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
  7. ^ A cul-de-sac of modernist homes in Hampstead.
personal data
SURNAME Freud, Ernst Ludwig
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Freud, Ernst Lucie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austro-British architect
DATE OF BIRTH April 6, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH April 7, 1970
Place of death London