Egon Eiermann (29 September 1904 – 19 July 1970) was one of Germany's most prominent architects in the second half of the 20th century. He was also a furniture designer. From 1947, he was Professor for architecture at Technische Hochschule Karlsruhe (today Karlsruhe Institute of Technology).
Biography
Eiermann was born in (now part of Babelsberg, Potsdam), the son of Wilhelm Eiermann (1874–1948), a locomotive engineer and his wife Emma Gellhorn (1875–1959). working there on developing steel frame construction methods. Students were Oswald Mathias Ungers and . During a study trip to the United States in 1950, he met Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer and Konrad Wachsmann in Boston and in 1956 also Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
Personal life
In 1940, he married in Berlin interior designer Charlotte, Friedheim (1912–2001) and in 1954 in Berlin architect Brigitte, née Feyerabendt (1924–2019). He had two children: with his first wife Andreas (born 1942), from his second marriage Anna (born 1956).
He died in Baden-Baden, aged 65. He is buried at the Buchen Cemetery.
Works
During the years of reconstruction, his steel-frame industrial buildings became exemplary. The buildings are transparent, inviting, democratic, making order visible.
A functionalist, his major works include: the textile mill at Blumberg (1951); the West German pavilion at the Brussels World's Fair (with Sep Ruf, 1958);