Helmer, Hermann#

b. Harburg (Germany), July 13, 1849, d. Vienna, April 2, 1919, architect. Associate of F. Fellner Jr., with whom he designed many theatres within and outside the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. Many of these buildings are major representatives of architecture during the period of late Historicism in Europe (e.g. the Graz Opera, the Stadttheater in Klagenfurt, the Volkstheater in Vienna). H. and Fellner also designed important exponents of residential architecture (e.g. Sturany Palace, Vienna, from 1874) as well as hotels and department stores (e.g. the Rothberger-Kranner department stores in Vienna, destroyed in 1945).

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