Leopold Ehrmann

Leopold Ehrmann (March 6, 1886 Strakonice[1] – April 11, 1951 Chicago[2]) was a German speaking architect living in Prague.

Ehrmann was born in Strakonice, in Southern Bohemia, then part of Austria-Hungary, as a son of local haberdashery shop owner.

He studied in Plzeň and Vienna and set up an architectural practice in Prague.

Ehrmann’s best-known work is the Cubist tombstone for Franz Kafkas family grave at the New Jewish Cemetery (1924).

[4] In 1940 Ehrmann and his wife immigrated to the United States and settled in Chicago where he died in 1951.

A tapering six-sided stone structure lists the names of three deceased persons: Franz, Hermann, and Julie Kafka. Each name has a passage in Hebrew below it.
Franz Kafka's grave at New Jewish Cemetery in Prague-Žižkov designed by Leopold Ehrmann.
Apartment building, Lodecká, Prague, 1937-1938