Research Catalog

Title

Ernst L. Freud, architect : the case of the modern bourgeois home / Volker M. Welter.

Author

Welter, Volker

Publication

New York : Berghahn Books, 2012.

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Details

Additional Authors

Freud, Ernst L., 1892-1970

Description

xiv, 214 p. : ill.; 26 cm.

Summary

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.

Series Statement

Space and place ; v. 5

Uniform Title

Space and place ; v. 5.

Alternative Title

Case of the modern bourgeois home

Subjects

• History
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Architecture, Domestic > Europe > History > 20th century
• Freud, Ernst L., 1892-1970 > Criticism and interpretation

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Modern Bourgeois domestic architecture of the Weimar Republic -- The making of an architect -- Going modern with Rainer Maria Rilke and Adolf Loos -- Society architect in Berlin -- Houses in and around Berlin -- Couches, consulting rooms, and clinics -- At home in England -- Family architect -- Architecture without quality? -- some concluding remarks.

ISBN

• 9780857452337 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9780857452344 (ebook)

LCCN

^^2011029401

OCLC

• 731912103
• SCSB-10723738

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library