Viktor Rumpelmayer

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Residence of the British Embassy in Vienna
Palais Figdor, Vienna
Royal Palace, Sofia
Palais Hohenlohe-Bartenstein, Vienna
Festetics Palace, Keszthely
Palais Pálffy, Pressburg
Euxinograd Palace

Viktor Rumpelmayer (also Rumpelmeyer, born November 7, 1830 in Preßburg , † June 14, 1885 in Vienna ) was an Austrian architect of the 19th century.

Life

The son of a master stonemason first completed an apprenticeship with his father. In 1847 he moved to Munich and was a guest student at the polytechnic school . 1849-1853 he studied architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich a . a. with Ludwig Lange .

After graduating, there followed a longer stay in Paris, which was to be of importance for his later creative work, especially in interior design. As an architect, he initially worked at the world exhibitions in London in 1862 and Paris in 1867 . In Paris he built the "Portuguese Pavilion". In the mid-1860s he came to Vienna and worked for the architects Eduard van der Nüll and August Sicard von Sicardsburg , where he a. a. the construction of the first Haas House was involved. He then went into business for himself and founded his own studio in 1872. He built a number of representative city ​​palaces and residential buildings in Vienna and Pressburg in the so-called Ringstrasse style . There were also projects outside of Austria , such as in Hungary (Festetics Palace in Keszthely ) and for Prince Alexander I. Battenberg in Bulgaria (reconstruction of the Prince's Palace in Sofia and the Euxinograd Summer Palace on the Black Sea coast).

Rumpelmayer died in 1885 at the age of 55 and was buried in the Andreas Cemetery in Bratislava . His wife Luise (1848–1890) followed him. The grave stele designed in neo-Gothic style has been preserved and is entered in the Bratislava List of Monuments .

Buildings and projects

Awards

literature

  • Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker [ed.]: General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present. 37 volumes. Leipzig: Engelmann 1907–1950
  • Géza Hajós , Walther Brauneis : The secular buildings of the 3rd, 4th and 5th district. Vienna: Schroll 1980 (Österreichische Kunsttopographie, 44.2), p. 386
  • Federal Monuments Office [ed.]: Dehio manual . The art monuments of Austria. Vienna. X. to XIX. and XXI. to XXIII. District. Vienna 1993, p. 47, p. 85, p. 112, p. 120 f., P. 152, p. 176, p. 186, p. 195
  • Paul Kortz: Vienna at the beginning of the 20th century. A guide in a technical and artistic direction. Edited by the Austrian Association of Engineers and Architects. Volume 2. Vienna: Gerlach & Wiedling 1906, p. 12, p. 20, p. 395 f., P. 421, p. 433
  • Technical guide through Vienna. Edited by the Austrian Association of Engineers and Architects. Edited by Martin Paul. Vienna: Gerlach & Wiedling 1910 (register)
  • Deutsche Bauzeitung 11 (1877), p. 102 ff.
  • Neues Wiener Tagblatt , June 15, 1885
  • Illustrated Wiener Extrablatt , June 16, 1885
  • M. Stern:  Rumpelmayer Viktor. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 9, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-7001-1483-4 , p. 325.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans-Joachim Böttcher: Ferdinand von Sachsen-Coburg and Gotha 1861-1948 - A cosmopolitan on the Bulgarian throne . Osteuropazentrum Verlag-Berlin (Anthea Publishing Group), Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-89998-296-1 , p. 60, 323 .

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personal data
SURNAME Rumpelmayer, Viktor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian architect
DATE OF BIRTH November 7, 1830
PLACE OF BIRTH Bratislava
DATE OF DEATH June 14, 1885
Place of death Vienna