Leopold Bauer (1 September 1872 – 7 October 1938) was an Austrian-Silesian

architect An architect is a person who plans, designs and oversees the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to provide services in connection with the design of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the buildings that h ...

. His work was part of the architecture event in the art competition at the

1936 Summer Olympics The 1936 Summer Olympics (German: ''Olympische Sommerspiele 1936''), officially known as the Games of the XI Olympiad (German: ''Spiele der XI. Olympiade'') and commonly known as Berlin 1936 or the Nazi Olympics, were an international multi-sp ...

Work

The Petr Bezruč City House of Culture in

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, which is protected as a

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, belongs to the most valuable works of Leopold Bauer. It was built in the Neo-Renaissance style in 1908–1910.

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1872 births 1938 deaths 20th-century Austrian architects Art competitors at the 1936 Summer Olympics People from Krnov People from Austrian Silesia Silesian-German people {{Austria-architect-stub