!!!Fellner, Ferdinand der Jüngere

Fellner, Ferdinand jr., b. Vienna, April 19, 1847, 
d. Vienna, March 22, 1916, architect of the "Ringstrasse" period. 
At the beginning of his career, worked in the atelier of his father 
Ferdinand F. sr. (1815-1871). Together with his partner H.  Helmer he 
founded the "F. & Helmer" atelier in 1873, which existed until 
1920. Architects who worked for the atelier included F. Krauss, E. 
Gotthilf-Miskolczy and F.'s son Ferdinand (1872-1911). F. & Helmer 
became especially famous as experts in the construction of theatres, 
which they mostly saw as "Gesamtkunstwerk", i.e. the synthesis of 
arts. They built about 50 buildings of this kind in the 
Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (Graz Opera, Stadttheater Klagenfurt, Vienna 
Volkstheater) and abroad. They are also known for their remarkable 
achievements in the field of residential architecture (Palais Sturany, 
Vienna, from 1874) and in the construction of hotels and department 
stores (Rothberger-Kranner department stores, Vienna, destroyed in 
1945). As masterly and future-oriented representatives of late 
historicism, they combined ornamental imagination and functional 
structure not only in neo-baroque forms but also in stylistic 
variations on the art of the Secession.

!Literature
H.-C. Hoffmann, Die Theaterbauten von F. und Helmer, 1966; 
G. M. Dienes (ed.), F. & H. - die Architekten der Illusion, 1999 
(includes work index).



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