<br />80 years ago, Silesian architect Leopold Bauer passed away

The future architect came from an artistically inclined family; however, his ancestors were more devoted to music – his grandfather was a violin maker and a versatile musician, while his father was an excellent pianist. The artistically gifted Leopold studied at a technical school in Brno and continued on to the Vienna Academy under Otto Wagner, who also taught several other significant Central European architects of the first half of the 20th century. After Wagner, he later took over a professorship at the Academy, which he held between 1913 and 1919.

He began creating at the turn of the century in Krnov; although his modernist project for the town hall faced setbacks, Bauer found his place as an interior designer. His Reissig Villa in Brno (1901 to 1902) is often referred to as the first modern house in the Habsburg Monarchy. The architect, who gradually moved from modernism to more historicizing forms, also designed the St. Hedwig Church in Opava (completed only in the 1990s). His last work was the wooden summer villa of Hana Larischová in Krnov from 1936.