95 years ago, Austrian architect Ferdinand Fellner passed away

Vienna - At the end of the 19th century, the Fellner and Helmer studio was one of the most famous in Austria. From the workshop of these two Austrian architects came the designs for a number of buildings in Bohemia as well, such as the State Opera in Prague or the Mahen Theatre in Brno, and the Slovak National Theatre in Bratislava. Fellner and Helmer also significantly influenced the appearance of Karlovy Vary, where, alongside a number of residential buildings, they designed the Imperial Spa, Grandhotel Pupp, and the theatre. One of the duo of famous architects, Ferdinand Fellner, died 95 years ago - on March 22, 1916 at the age of sixty-nine.
    Over more than forty years of collaboration, Fellner and Helmer designed nearly two hundred buildings, mostly in the territory of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire. The buildings are mostly constructed in a historicizing style - neo-Renaissance, neo-Classical, or neo-Baroque, sometimes with elements of secession. For the decoration of interiors and exteriors, they collaborated with prominent artists of their time, including the famous painter Gustav Klimt.
    The specialization of the Fellner and Helmer studio was theatrical and concert buildings, with the authors significantly focusing on safety. At that time, a number of theatres in Europe had burned down. The studio produced designs for theatres in, for example, Zagreb, Salzburg, Berlin, Graz, Zurich, Budapest, and Vienna. In Bohemia, it also included the F. X. Šalda Theatre in Liberec and the Žinkovy Castle near Plzeň. The architects Fellner and Helmer also designed apartment buildings, such as the luxury residential complex Margaretenhof in Vienna, department stores, villas, hotels, and colonnades.