Ejnar Mindedal

Background

Ejnar Mindedal was the son of the architect Daniel Rasmussen and his wife Thyra F. Sørensen.

Education

Ejnar Mindedal was the son of the architect Daniel Rasmussen and his wife Thyra F. Sørensen. He was a joiner apprentice from May 1907 to August 1908 and attended Vallekilde High School, studying under Ivar Bentsen, Ollerup Craftsman School and he was a student of the sculptor R. Mogensen in Svendborg. In September 1918 he passed the entrance exam for The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture, from where he graduated in January 1923.

Career

Ejnar Mindedal started his own practice in Ollerup in 1923. In his career he worked as, among other positions;

Architect for da:Statens Jordlovsudvalg

Expert advisor for da:Landbrugsministeriet, now The Danish Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries and da:Indenrigsministeriet (Ministry for Interior Affairs) from 1923-1932

Head of Ollerups Craftsman School from 1932

Building consultant for clergy houses in Svendborg County from 1943

Architect for Vallø Diocese from 1945

In addition to his Silver Medal at the 1928 Olympics, he received Queen Alexandra"s Grant in 1931, participated in the Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition in 1921 og 1929 and the Charlottenborg Fall Exhibition in 1922. He is buried in Ollerup Cemetery.

Achievements

• He was a traditionalist who adhered to the Danish da:Bedre Byggeskik school but he did not shy from using modern materials like concrete in, for example, his breakthrough work "Swimming Pool in Ollerup, for which he won a Silver Medal in the Architectural Design discipline at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam.

Membership

Member of da:Grænseforeningens building committee.