Viktor Rumpelmayer
Viktor Rumpelmayer (7 November 1830 – 14 June 1885, in Vienna) 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. Viktor Rumpelmayer was born in Preßburg, Hungary (Pozsony, 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.
Viktor Rumpelmayer

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- Viktor Rumpelmayer was born on 7 November 1830. · Bratislava.
- Died
- Viktor Rumpelmayer died on 14 June 1885. · Vienna.
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- Austria–Hungary
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- Christ Church
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Among his other works 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 Universelle (1900), among other prominent commissions Rumpelmayer also redesigned the Festetics Palace in Keszthely, Hungary. • Illustration — German Embassy of Vienna, Landstraße • Illustration — Festetics Castle • Illustration — Former Bulgarian royal palace, Sofia • Illustration — Euxinograd • Illustration — Palugyay Palace, Hlavné námestie (Bratislava), 1882-1883
The recorded working language is German. The field of work recorded is architecture. Works named in the authority record are Christ Church.
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Viktor Rumpelmayer was an architect, born in 1830 in Preßburg and died in 1885 in Vienna. Both events are recorded by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek.
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- 1.Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Österreichisches biographisches Lexikon, 1815–1950. Böhlau. 1957. 3-7001-0187-2.
- 2.Demokratsiya. Viennese and Czech architects created many of the symbols of Sofia. 2001-10-04.
- 3.Our Embassy in Vienna. July 23, 2012.
- 4.Deutsche Botschaft Wien.
- 5.Balaton-online.net. Ferienhäuser am Plattensee — Keszthely — Schloss Festetics.
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