Viktor Rumpelmayer

Viktor Rumpelmayer (7 November 1830–14 June 1885, Vienna)[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 Central European architects of his time.[2]

Born in Preßburg, Hungary, Habsburg Empire (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[3] with Christ Church, the German embassy in Vienna[4] the Portuguese pavilion at the Paris Exposition Universelle (1900), among other prominent commissions[2] Rumpelmayer also redesigned the Festetics Palace in Keszthely, Hungary.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (1957). Österreichisches biographisches Lexikon, 1815–1950 (in German). Graz: Böhlau. ISBN 3-7001-0187-2.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Viennese and Czech architects created many of the symbols of Sofia" (in Bulgarian). Demokratsiya. 2001-10-04. Retrieved 2006-07-25.
  3. ↑ , (jpg)
  4. ↑ Deutsche Botschaft Wien.
  5. ↑ "Ferienhäuser am Plattensee — Keszthely — Schloss Festetics" (in German). Balaton-online.net. Archived from the original on 2006-07-27. Retrieved 2006-11-11.