Einar Ambt


Einar Ambt was a Danish architect.
His parents were Georg Christian Charles Ambt – who held the post of Copenhagen City Engineer and Director General of the Danish State Railways – and Thekla Emilie Eleanor Mathilde Johnsen.
He became a bricklayer in 1896 and simultaneously attended technical school. He was then accepted to the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, graduating as an architect in 1904. He worked for Danish architect Gotfred Tvede for six years and, at the insistence of his father, worked for Danish architect Heinrich Wenck on Copenhagen Central Station from 1904–1912. He started his own practice in 1912.
He was a member of the board of directors for The Architects' Association of Denmark from 1908–10 and, from 1915, he served on the board of the Kreditkassen for Husejere i Kjøbenhavn. He collaborated with the architect Axel Preisler on many works in his career.
On 2 April 1909 he married Josephine Johanne Marie Hansen in Copenhagen. Ambt travelled to Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Finland, England, France and the Netherlands during his life.
He won the New Residential Property of the Year Award in 1915. He participated in the National Exhibition of 1909 in Aarhus and in the Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition in 1918, 1921, 1922 and 1927. Together with Axel Preisler, he received the Diplom d'Honneur in Ghent in 1921.
He died during construction of the Kreditkassen for Husejere i Kjøbenhavn at Rådhuspladsen 59 in Copenhagen. The building was completed by Gunnar Juul Brask in 1929. Ambt is buried at Vestre Cemetery in Copenhagen.

Selected works

Alone:
In collaboration with Axel Preisler: