Ernst L. Freud, architect
Subtitle: the case of the modern bourgeois home
By: Volker M. Welter
Contributors: Freud, Ernst L., 1892-1970
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Space and place -- v. 5
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9780857452337; 9780857452344
Subjects: Domestic Architecture; Criticism and interpretation; History
Other titles: Case of the modern bourgeois home
Description: Ernst L. Freud (1892 - 1970) was a son of Sigmund Freud and the father of painter Lucian Freud and the late Sir Clement Freud, politician and broadcaster. After his studies in Munich and Vienna, where he and his friend Richard Neutra attended Adolf Loos's private Bauschule, Freud practiced in Berlin and, after 1933, in London. Even though his work focused on domestic architecture and interiors, Freud was possibly the first architect to design psychoanalytical consulting rooms - including the customary couches - a subject dealt with here for the first time. 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. His clients constituted a "Who's Who" of the Jewish and non-Jewish bourgeoisie in 1920s Berlin and later in London, among them, the S. Fischer publisher family, Melanie Klein, Ernest Jones, the Spenders, and Julian Huxley. While moving within a social class known for its cultural and avant-garde activities, Freud refrained from spatial, formal, or technological experiments. Instead, he focused on creating modern homes for his bourgeois clients. -- Book Description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.