A Psycho-Analytic Dialogue: The Letters of Signmund Freud and Karl Abraham 1907-1926
(A 1965 book initially published in German and edited by E...)
A 1965 book initially published in German and edited by Ernst L. Freud and Hilda C. Abraham, and later translated into English by Bernard Marsh and Hilda C. Abraham
(A 1968 book initially published in German and edited by E...)
A 1968 book initially published in German and edited by Ernst L. Freud, and later translated by Elaine Robson-Scott and William Robson-Scott into English
(A 1976 book initially published in German and edited by L...)
A 1976 book initially published in German and edited by Lucie Freud, Ilse Grubrich-Simitis, and Ernst L. Freud, and later translated into English by Christine Trollope
Ernst L. Freud was an Austrian architect. He was well known not only for his famous relatives, but also for his designs of apartment houses, factories, and other buildings. He also remodeled houses.
Background
Ernst L. Freud was born as Ernst Freud on April 6, 1892, in Vienna, Austria. He was the youngest son and the fourth of six children in a family of a psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud and Martha Freud (maiden name Bernays).
Ernst Freud’s siblings were named Mathilde, Jean-Martin, Oliver, Sophie, and Anna. The latter was also a renowned psychiatrist as her father.
Ernst received his name in honor of a German physician and physiologist Ernst Wilhelm Ritter von Brücke.
Education
Ernst L. Freud attended the lectures in Adolf Loos private Bauschule (architectural school) before the World War I.
After the War, Freud studied at the Technical University of Munich (Munich Technische Universität).
Ernst L. Freud started his career in 1914 from military service during the First World War.
After demobilization, Freud established an architectural practice in Berlin in 1920. The majority of his clients were doctors. He developed designs for several buildings, including factories, and Art Deco apartment houses. By 1930, somehow influenced by Mies van der Rohe, the architect shifted to a modern style. Among the projects of the time were a cigarette factory in Berlin and a house for Dr. Frank in Geltow near Potsdam.
In 1933, Ernst Freud moved to London fleeing from Nazism rising in Germany. Living in the city till the end of his life, Freud worked on commissions for private houses and blocks of flats around Hampstead, such as Frognal Close in 1938, Belvedere Court, Lyttelton Road, and a consulting room for Melanie Klein. He also designed a synagogue in the East End of London.
Ernst Freud dedicated the last three years of his life to the compilation and edition of several books relating to his father. Many of these works were compilations of Freud’s correspondence, such as ‘Letters of Sigmund Freud, 1873-1939’, ‘Psychoanalysis and Faith: The Letters of Sigmund Freud and Oskar Pfister’, ‘A Psychoanalytic Dialogue: The Letters of Sigmund Freud and Karl Abraham, 1907-1926’, and ‘The Letters of Sigmund Freud and Arnold Zwieg.’
Achievements
Ernst L. Freud distinguished himself as a talented architect especially skilled at updating houses “with a sensitive eye for their environment,” according to a New York Times obituary.
Freud is regarded by many as the pioneer in designing psychoanalytical consulting rooms, including customary couches.
Among his clients were many bourgeois personalities, such as the S. Fischer publisher family, Melanie Klein, Ernest Jones, the Spenders, and Julian Huxley.
(A 1965 book initially published in German and edited by E...)
1965
Views
Ernst L. Freud was an avid adherent of Zionism. He took part at the Zionist Congress in Vienna on September 1913.
Personality
Ernst L. Freud added the letter ‘L’ to his name to celebrate his wife Lucie.
Physical Characteristics:
Ernst L. Freud contracted pneumonia while serving in the army during the First World War. He had been suffering from the consequences of the illness for years.
Connections
Ernst L. Freud was married to a daughter of a wealthy Berlin corn merchant Lucie Brasch, an editor. The family produced three children, Stephen Gabriel, Clement, and Lucian.
Clement Freud became a well-known politician and broadcaster, and Lucian Freud chose the career of an artist.
Ernst L. Freud, Architect: The Case of the Modern Bourgeois Home (Space and Place)
By interweaving an account of Freud’s professional and personal life in Vienna, Berlin, and London with a critical discussion of selected examples of his domestic architecture, interior designs, and psychoanalytic consulting rooms, the author offers a rich tapestry of Ernst L. Freud’s world