Leopold Ehrmann
Illustration — Franz Kafka's grave at New Jewish Cemetery in Prague-Žižkov designed by Ehrmann • Illustration — Apartment building, Lodecká, Prague, 1937–1938 Leopold Ehrmann (6 March 1886 – 11 April 1951) was a Czech architect of German ethnicity. He lived in Prague.
Leopold Ehrmann
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- Born
- 1886 · Strakonice.
- Died
- 1951 · Chicago.
- Nationality
- Germany
- Occupation
- architect
- Fields
- architecture · functionalism
- Languages
- German
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Illustration — Franz Kafka's grave at New Jewish Cemetery in Prague-Žižkov designed by Ehrmann • Illustration — Apartment building, Lodecká, Prague, 1937–1938 Leopold Ehrmann (6 March 1886 – 11 April 1951) was a Czech architect of German ethnicity. He lived in Prague.
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Ehrmann was born on 6 March 1886 in Strakonice in southern Bohemia, then part of Austria-Hungary, as a son of local haberdashery shop owner. He studied in Plzeň and Vienna and set up an architectural practice in Prague. His notable projects included works carried out for the Prague Jewish community: the synagogues in Prague Smíchov and Karlín, the gate house, columbarium and prayer hall at the New Jewish Cemetery and an apartment building in Prague's New Town worked on with František Zelenka. Ehrmann’s best-known work is the Cubist tombstone for Franz Kafka's family grave at the New Jewish Cemetery (1924). In 1940 Ehrmann and his wife immigrated to the United States and settled in Chicago where he died on 11 April 1951.
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- 1.National Archive, Prague
- 2.Nový židovský hřbitov – Žižkov. Židovské památky.
- 3.Kafka, František. New Jewish Cemetery. Marsyas. 56. 1991. 80-900262-4-9.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 2
- Lukeš, Zdeněk. Splátka dluhu : Praha a její německy hovořící architekti 1900-1938. Prague: Fraktály, 2002. .
- Ehrmann, Robert. Strakoničtí souvěrci - ze života Židů na malém městě. Prague: Sefer 1998.
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