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

Main entry:

Welter, Volker.

Title & Author:

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

Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, 2012.

Description:

xiv, 214 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Series:

Space & place ; v. 5

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 206-209) and index.
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.

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.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents

ISBN:

9780857452337 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0857452339 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780857452344 (ebook)
0857452347 (ebook)

Subject:

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

Form/genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History

Added entries:

Freud, Ernst L., 1892-1970.
Space and place ; v. 5.

Case of the modern bourgeois home

Holdings:

Location: Library main 276089
Call No.: BIB 210643
Status: Available

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