Fellner & Helmer

Ferdinand Fellner
Hermann Helmer
Ferdinand Fellner and Hermann Helmer

Fellner & Helmer was an architecture studio founded in 1873 by Austrian architects Ferdinand Fellner and Hermann Helmer. They designed over 200 buildings (mainly opera houses and apartment buildings) across Europe in the late 19th and early 20th century, which helped bind the Austro-Hungarian Empire together and cement Vienna as its cultural center.[1][2] While most of the work stood in the former Austro-Hungarian Empire, others can be found from Switzerland to present-day Ukraine. Frequent collaborators for integrated exterior and interior art work include Gustav Klimt, Hans Makart, Theodor Friedl, and other significant artists.

Theatres by Ferdinand Fellner

Mihai Eminescu National Theatre and Romanian National Opera in Timișoara. After the building was devastated by a fire, only the side wings remained according to the original design.
  • 1871–72 Wiener Stadttheater, Vienna, Austria (destroyed by fire in 1884). With Ferdinand Fellner the Older.
  • 1871–75 National Theatre and Opera, Timișoara, Romania (rebuilt after destroyed by fires in 1880 and 1920, respectively). With Ferdinand Fellner the Older.

Theatres by Fellner and Helmer

Original design of the Rijeka theatre's west façade (1882)

Theatres designed by Fellner & Helmer[1]

Other buildings

Sources

  • "Theatres built by Fellner & Helmer". andreas-praefcke.de. Retrieved 2006-07-30.

Notes

  1. ^ a b Architekturzentrum Wien: "Ferdinand Fellner II.", (in German), retrieved 30 March 2013
  2. ^ "How One Vienna Architecture Firm Defined the Opera House in Central Europe". Archived from the original on 2019-06-03. Retrieved 2017-07-02.
  3. ^ Damjanovic, Dragan. "Croatian Pavilions at the 1896 Millennium Exhibition in Budapest, in: Ephemeral Architecture in Central and Eastern Europe in the 19th and 21st Centuries, L'Harmattan, Paris, 2015, 51-74". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

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