Ernst L. Freud [also known as Ernst Ludwig Freud] was born in Ernest Freud* in Vienna, Austria, on 6 April 1892 and was the youngest son of the psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, He studied architecture at the Technische Hochschule in Vienna in 1912-13, privately with Adolf Loos in 1912-13, and, with an interruption for war service, at the Technische Hochschule in Munich from 1913 to 1919. In 1912 he went on a study trip to Italy and the Balkans with Richard Neutra.
In 1920 Freud settled in Berlin where he established a practice. He designed houses and flats and some commercial and industrial buildings. The influence of Mies van der Rohe is evident much of Frank's early work. In addition to his architectural work, Freud also designed furniture for individual clients.
When the National Socialists came to power in Germany in 1933, Freud, who was Jewish, emigrated to England and settled in St. John's Wood, London where he set up a new practice. Projects during his years in England included flats in and houses in Hampstead, Betworth in Surrey, and Walberswick, Suffolk; the memorial to Sigmund Freud in Golders Green in London; a synagogue in Stepney Green, London. He also continued to design furniture.
He died in London on 7 February 1970.
* Freud added the middle initial L. [or Ludwig - sources differ] to his name in 1920.
See: UK Modern House [link below]
Benton, Charlotte. A different world: emigre architects in Britain 1928-1958. London: Heinz Gallery, 1995
'Obituary'. Building vol. 218, no. 16, 17 April 1970 p. 62
Welter, Volker M. Ernst L. Freud, Architect: The Case of the Modern Bourgeois Home. New York, NY: Berghahn Books, 2012