Viktor Rumpelmayer

Who was Viktor Rumpelmayer?

Viktor Rumpelmayer 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.

Born in Preßburg, Hungary, Habsburg Empire, Rumpelmayer worked not only in his home country, but also in Bulgaria, where he designed and constructed the Neo-Baroque royal palace of Bulgaria and Knyaz Alexander Battenberg's summer palace Euxinograd, on the Black 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 the Paris Exposition Universelle, among other prominent commissions Rumpelmayer also redesigned the Festetics Palace in Keszthely, Hungary.

German Embassy of Vienna, Landstraße

Festetics Castle

Former Bulgarian royal palace, Sofia

Euxinograd

Palugyay Palace, Hlavné námestie, 1882-1883