Ernst plischke biography

Austrian-New Zealand modernist architect (–)

Ernst Anton Plischke ( – 23 May ) was an Austrian-New Zealand modernistarchitect, town planner and furniture designer whose work is well known throughout Europe and New Zealand.^[1][2]

Early years

Plischke was born in the town of Klosterneuburg near Vienna (Austria) in His father worked as an architect and his mother came from a family of cabinet-makers.

Ernst Plischke - New Zealand History

From an early age he spent time in workshops and studios, before studying interior- and furniture-design at Vienna's College of Arts and Crafts.

At the age of twenty, influenced by his father to become an architect, he was accepted into a Master School run by leading architect Peter Behrens. His architecture as a student reflected the dynamic and repetitious nature of the early modernist style.

After graduating from the academy in , Plischke worked in Peter Behrens's private office, and in travelled to New York to work, but the start of the