- Viktor Rumpelmayer
Viktor Rumpelmayer (1830–1885) [cite book | last = Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften | url = http://epub.oeaw.ac.at/oebl/oebl_R/Rumpelmayer_Viktor_1830_1885.xml | year = 1957 | title = Österreichisches biographisches Lexikon, 1815–1950 | publisher = Böhlaus | location = Graz | language = German | id = ISBN 3-7001-0187-2 ] 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.cite news | url = http://www.digsys.bg/bgnews/show_story.html?issue=253644864&media=1523776&class=170645920&story=253645120 | title = Viennese and Czech architects created many of the symbols of Sofia | publisher = Demokratsiya | date = 2001-10-04 | accessdate = 2006-07-25 | language = Bulgarian ]Born in Preßburg, Austria-Hungary (today
Bratislava ,Slovakia ), Rumpelmayer worked not only in his home country, but also inBulgaria , where he designed and constructed theNeo-Baroque royal palace of Bulgaria (today the National Art Gallery) and Knyaz Alexander Battenberg's summer palaceEuxinograd , on theBlack Sea coast. 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 theParis Exposition , etc. Rumpelmayer also redesigned theFestetics Palace inKeszthely ,Hungary . [cite web|url=http://www.balaton-online.net/keszthely-schloss.htm |title=Ferienhäuser am Plattensee - Keszthely - Schloss Festetics |publisher=Balaton-online.net |language=German |accessdate=2006-11-11]References
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