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. Born in Preßburg, Kingdom of Hungary|Hungary]("Pozsony", today Bratislava, Slovakia ), Rumpelmayer worked not only in his home country, but also in Bulgaria , where he designed and constructed the Baroque Revival architecture|Neo-Baroque royal palace of Bulgaria (today the National Art Gallery (Bulgaria)|National Art Gallery ) and " Knyaz " Alexander of Bulgaria|Alexander  Battenberg 's summer palace Euxinograd , on the Black Sea coast. Among his other works are a number of palaces for well-known members of the nobility, the Embassy of the United Kingdom in Vienna|British embassy in Vienna with Christ Church, the German Embassy of Vienna|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 . References. Category:Architects from Bratislava Category:Hungarian architects Category:Architecture of Bulgaria Category:1830 births Category:1885 deaths Category:19th-century architects