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 in Bulgaria, where he designed and constructed the Neo-Baroque royal palace of Bulgaria (today the National Art Gallery) 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, etc. Rumpelmayer also redesigned the Festetics Palace in Keszthely, 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]

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