Viktor Rumpelmayer
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Viktor Rumpelmayer (1830–1885)[1] was a 19th-century Austro-Hungarian architect, whose style was a combination of French and Italian influences and the Viennese trends characteristic for the period. He is regarded as one of the most eminent architects of his time.[2]
Born in Preßburg, Austria-Hungary (today Bratislava, Slovakia), Rumpelmayer worked not only in his home country, but also in Bulgaria, where he designed and constructed the Neo-Baroque royal palace of Bulgaria (today the National Art Gallery) and Knyaz Alexander Battenberg's summer palace Euxinograd, on the Black Sea coast.[2] Among his works in Austria-Hungary are a number of palaces for well-known members of the nobility, the British embassy in Vienna with Christ Church, the German embassy in Vienna, the Portuguese pavilion at the Paris Exposition, etc.[2] Rumpelmayer also redesigned the Festetics Castle in Keszthely, modern Hungary.[3]
 Former Bulgarian royal palace, Sofia |
 Festetics Castle |
[edit] References
- ^ Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (1957). Österreichisches biographisches Lexikon, 1815–1950 (in German). Graz: Böhlaus. ISBN 3-7001-0187-2.
- ^ a b c "Viennese and Czech architects created many of the symbols of Sofia", Demokratsiya, 2001-10-04. Retrieved on July 25, 2006. (in Bulgarian)
- ^ Ferienhäuser am Plattensee - Keszthely - Schloss Festetics (German). Balaton-online.net. Retrieved on November 11, 2006.
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