Ernst Giese


Ernst Friedrich Giese was a German architect and university professor at the Düsseldorf Art Academy and at the Technical University of Dresden.

Early life

Giese grew up in Bautzen. There he attended the high school. He then studied at the Dresden Polytechnic and at the Dresden Art Academy, including with Hermann Nicolai. From 1855 to 1858 Giese was on a study grant in Italy for study purposes.

Work

After the trip to Italy, he returned to Dresden and ran a joint architectural office with Bernhard Schreiber. In 1866, Giese accepted a professorship in architecture at the Düsseldorf Art Academy. He performed this function part-time. His wife Gertrud, née Barteldes, gave birth to his first son Max Eduard, who became a landscape painter, in 1867, and Friedrich, who joined his later Dresden office as an architect in 1871. Because he did not offer the options in Düsseldorf, which he had hoped, he returned in 1872 to Dresden and initially teamed up with the architect Frederick O. Hartmann. In August 1873, he caught up for a short time Cornelius Gurlitt in his Dresden office. In 1874 he separated from Hartmann and worked with Paul Weidner for the next 17 years.
In 1878 Giese was appointed full professor of architecture at the Dresden Polytechnic ; he held this teaching position until the fall of 1900. The joint architectural office with Weidner existed in parallel until 1891, from then on Giese worked with his son Friedrich . Evidence of the professional reputation that Ernst Giese earned as an architect and university professor is also his appointment in 1892 as a full member of the Prussian Academy of the Arts. After retiring in 1900, Giese moved to Charlottenburg, where he died in 1903.
The architect Julius Graebner was one of his students in Dresden.

Notable works