Ernst von Ihne belongs to the record of architecture as a figure whose buildings outlasted the taste that commissioned them.
The record lists Ernst von Ihne as German architect (1848-1917).
Ernst von Ihne was born at Elberfeld in 1848. His recorded nationality is Kingdom of Prussia. He trained at Beaux-Arts de Paris and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.
Industrialisation gave architecture iron, glass and the lift, and with them the problems of the railway station, the factory and the tall city block.
He is recorded as architect.
Among his best-known works are Basteistraße 18, Kaiserin-Friedrich-Haus and Schlosshotel Kronberg. Architecture is the art that cannot be avoided: people live inside the argument.
That the work was built in Kingdom of Prussia shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Ernst von Ihne died in 1917, aged 69. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Notable work: Basteistraße 18
- Notable work: Kaiserin-Friedrich-Haus
- Notable work: Schlosshotel Kronberg
- Trained at Beaux-Arts de Paris and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
