Fellner & Helmer was an architecture studio founded in 1873 by Austrian architects

Ferdinand Fellner Ferdinand Fellner (19 April 1847 – 22 March 1916) was an Austrian architect. Biography Fellner joined his ailing father's architecture firm at the age of nineteen. After his death he founded the architecture studio Fellner & Helmer together w ...

and

Hermann Helmer Hermann Gottlieb Helmer (13 July 1849 – 2 April 1919) was a German architect who mainly worked in Austria. Biography After completing an apprenticeship as a bricklayer, and some further education he joined the architecture firm of Ferdinand ...

. They designed over 200 buildings (mainly opera houses and apartment buildings) across Europe in the late 19th century and early 20th century, which helped bind the Austro-Hungarian Empire together and cement Vienna as its cultural center. 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 Gustav Klimt (July 14, 1862 – February 6, 1918) was an Austrian symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement. Klimt is noted for his paintings, murals, sketches, and other objets d'art. Klimt's prim ...

Hans Makart Hans Makart (28 May 1840 – 3 October 1884) was a 19th-century Austrian academic history painter, designer, and decorator. Makart was a prolific painter whose ideas significantly influenced the development of visual art in Austria-Hungary, Germa ...

, Theodor Friedl, and other significant artists.

Theatres by Ferdinand Fellner

* 1871–72 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

Theatres designed by Fellner & HelmerArchitekturzentrum Wien: "Ferdinand Fellner II."
(''in German''), retrieved 30 March 2013 * 1874–75 Népszínház, Budapest, Hungary (demolished 1965) * 1881–82

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, Czech Republic, (one of the first theatres in Europe with electrical lighting) * 1881–83 "Stadttheater" in

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, Czech Republic * 1882–83 Szeged National Theatre, Hungary * 1883–85 Croatian National Theatre in

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, Croatia * 1884–86 Theatre in

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, Czech Republic * 1884–87 Opera Theater, Odessa, Ukraine * 1885–86 Slovak National

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- Old building (as "Königliches Freistädtisches Theater"), Bratislava, Slovakia, 1886 * 1886–87

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(as "Neues Deutsches Theater"), Prague, Czech Republic * 1887–88 Ronacher, Vienna, Austria (altered after fire) * 1888–89

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(previously ''Deutsches Volkstheater''), Vienna, Austria * 1890–91

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, Zürich, Switzerland * 1891–92

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in Berlin, Germany * 1892–93 State Theatre in Salzburg, Austria * 1892–94

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, Germany * 1893–95 Tonhalle, Zürich, Switzerland * 1894–95

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, Croatia * 1894–96 Iaşi National Theatre, Romania * 1895–96

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in Budapest, Hungary * 1895–96

Katona József Theatre Katona is a Hungarian surname meaning "soldier". People * Ervin Katona (born 1977), Serbian strongman competitor * Gábor Katona, retired Hungarian triple jumper * George Katona, Hungarian-born American psychologist * Gyula O. H. Katona, Hung ...

, Kecskemet, Hungary * 1896–97 Konzerthaus Ravensburg, Germany * 1898–99 Opernhaus in Graz, Austria * 1898–99 Stadttheater in Berndorf, Austria * 1899–1900

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National Theatre, Oradea, Romania * 1899–1900

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, Hamburg, Germany * 1901–02

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, Vienna, Austria (altered 1960–1961) * 1903–04 Wilam Horzyca Theatre,

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, Poland * 1904–05 Theatre in

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, Ukraine * 1904–06

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, Sofia, Bulgaria * 1904–06

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, Cluj-Napoca, Romania * 1906–07 Theatre in

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, Czech Republic * 1906–07 Stadttheater Gießen, Germany * 1906–09 Theatre in

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, Czech Republic * 1908–09 Stadttheater,

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, Austria * 1909–10 Stadttheater in Klagenfurt, Austria (expansion 1996-98 by

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) * 1909–10 Adam Mickiewicz Theatre,

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, Poland * 1910–13 Konzerthaus, Vienna, Austria * 1911–13

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, Vienna, Austria

Other buildings

* 1881 the István Károlyi or Károlyi-Csekonics Palace, Múzeum utca 17 in Budapest's Palace District, Hungary * 1885

Palace Modello in Rijeka Palace Modello ( hr, Palača Modello; it, Palazzo Modello) was built in 1885 in Rijeka, Croatia, on the place of the destroyed and demolished Adamichev ( hr, Adamićev) theater. TURISTIČKA MAGISTRALA >> PALAČA "MODELLO"">Službene stranice Grad ...

, Croatia * 1894

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, Prinz-Eugen-Straße, Vienna, Austria * 1894–95

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, Vienna, Austria * 1897 Castle, Žinkovy, Czech Republic * 1897–1898 N oble Casino,

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, Ukraine * Colonnade Park (Czech: Sadová kolonáda),

, Czech Republic *

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, Czech Republic * Hotel Slovan (as "Hotel Waldeck", 1893) in

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, Czech Republic * Imperial bath (Bath I),

, Czech Republic * Market Colonnade,

, Czech Republic *

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, Croatia, 1898 * Palace of Justice,

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, Romania, 1885 * 1898–1900 Goetz Palace in

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, Poland * 1899–1900 Hotel George,

, Ukraine * Potocki Palace, Antoniny, Ukraine * Villa, 20 Mickiewicza Street in

, Poland * Semmering: Hotel Panhans * Semmering (Niederösterreich) - Dependance Waldesruhe 1908 * Semmering (Niederösterreich) - Dependance Fürstenhof * Department store

Kastner & Öhler Kastner & Öhler is an Austrian chain of department stores, based in Graz, Styria, Austria, and mainly active in southern Austria. The family-run company dates back to a shop founded in 1873 by Karl Kastner and Herman Öhler. They were the first ...

in Graz (1914)

Gallery

File:Katona József Theater auditorium.jpg, Katona József Theater auditorium File:Teatro Nacional, Zagreb, Croacia, 2014-04-20, DD 01.JPG,

File:National Theatre of Szeged.jpg,

National Theatre of Szeged The National Theatre of Szeged is the main theatre of Szeged, Hungary. It was built in 1883 by the well-known company of Ferdinand Fellner and Hermann Helmer in Eclectic and Neo-baroque style. Theatre in Szeged The last decades of the 19th cen ...

(1883) File:Slovak National Theatre in Bratislava - Old building.jpg,

Slovak National Theatre The Slovak National Theater ( sk, Slovenské národné divadlo, abbr. SND) is the oldest professional theatre in Slovakia, consisting of three ensembles: opera, ballet, and drama. Its history begins shortly after the establishment of the first ...

, Bratislava (1885-86) File:Odessa Opera Theatre.jpg, Odessa Opera Theater (1887) File:Wien - Volkstheater (2).JPG,

Volkstheater, Vienna The Volkstheater in Vienna (roughly translated as "People's Theatre") was founded in 1889 by request of the citizens of Vienna, amongst them the dramatist Ludwig Anzengruber and the furniture manufacturer Thonet, in order to offer a popular count ...

(1889) File:Nagyváradi Állami Szinház.JPG,

National Theatre (1900) File:Semmering - Hotel Panhans (c).JPG, Hotel Panhans in Semmering (1913) File:IvanVazov National Theatre 7.jpg,

, Sofia (1906)

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