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About Einar Ambt
- Einar Ambt (22 March 1877, Copenhagen – 21 December 1928, Copenhagen) 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 (Credit Union for Homeowners in Copenhagen).
- He collaborated with the architect Axel Preisler on many works in his career. On 2 April 1909 he married Josephine Johanne Marie Hansen (b.
- 23 July 1878) 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.
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