Ernst Ewald

He came from a banking family and attended the University of Bonn, where he studied medicine and the natural sciences.

He travelled to Italy in 1864 and devoted himself to studying Fifteenth Century art.

Beginning in 1868, he was an instructor in the school at the Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin, which he had helped to create.

Following the death of Martin Gropius in 1880, he also took over management of the Royal School of Art in Berlin.

Ewald's work was based on classical models and a desire to preserve historical forms and techniques.