Ernst Ludwig Freud

Ernst Ludwig Freud (1892 in Vienna – 1970 in London) was a German-Austrian architect and the youngest son of Sigmund Freud.

Ernst Freud established his practice in Berlin in 1920 where a large number of his clients were Doctors. The majority of his commissions were for houses and consulting rooms and he worked in an Art Deco style but by 1930 had begun to work in a modern style showing the influence of Mies van der Rohe. Examples of this include a Cigarette Factory in Berlin and a house and consulting room for Dr. Frank in Potsdam.

In 1933 with the rise to power of the Nazis, Ernst Freud left Berlin for London where he settled in St. John's Wood. He secured a number of commissions for private houses block of flats around Hampstead including the notable Belvedere Court, Lyttelton Road and a consulting room for Melanie Klein. In 1938 his father Sigmund and younger sister Anna Freud joined Ernst in London and moved into a house in Hampstead that Ernst remodelled including the creation of a glazed garden room. The house today is the Freud Museum.

Ernst Ludwig Freud had three children, Stephen Gabriel Freud, the politician and broadcaster Clement Freud and the painter Lucian Freud. Freud was an atheist. [" [Ernst Ludwig's son Clement] Freud says he has omitted everything but the most 'uncontroversial happenings' from the text, and this is mostly true. But there are a few moments when indignation or irritation surge to the surface. In conversation, he is prepared to go further. In the book, for instance, he fudges his parents' non-appearance at his 1950 church wedding to actress Jill Raymond (who now runs two theatre companies in Suffolk). My interpretation had been that they had not been invited. But he corrects me on this. They were asked but chose, as atheists, not to attend." Harriet Lane, 'Interview: The Freud who hates therapy: Sir Clement Freud', "The Observer", 14 October 2001, Review Pages, Pg. 3.]

External links

* [http://www.freud.org.uk/ The Freud Museum, London]

Ernst had three children, Stephen Gabriel Freud, Lucien Michael Freud and Clement Raphael Freud