Victor Luntz, (8 March 1840,

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- 12 October 1903,

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) was an Austrian architect and Professor.

Life and work

His father, Andreas Luntz, was a local official. In 1847, the family moved to Vienna where, from 1856 to 1860, he studied at the

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then, from 1860 to 1864, at the

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. He was awarded the Academy's

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for excellence in 1862. His primary instructors there were

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and

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. Later, he worked with

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, who was building the new

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. He also completed an apprenticeship as a

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. In 1874, he married Auguste Felicitas Wielemans, sister of the architect, , in whose studio he was working. In 1885 the College of Technology (the former Polytechnic Institute) named him to fill the chair of Medieval and Christian architecture, left vacant by the death of

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, two years previously. From 1892 until his death, he was the head Professor of the special school for Medieval architecture at the Academy. His notable students included , Rudolf Wiskoczil and Max Hegele, who designed the church at the

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. His wife died in 1885, leaving him with five sons. His eldest, , became a well known landscape painter. Few of his works were especially prominent; the notable exception being the St. Francis of Assisi Church, one of several church buildings he designed. He also did restorative work and expansions at the

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church and the Minoritenkirche. He had a

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while attending a meeting at the Academy, and died shortly after, at the age of sixty-three. In 1920, a street in Vienna's

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district was named after him.

Sources

* Felix Czeike (Ed.): ''Historisches Lexikon Wien'', Vol.4, Kremayr & Scheriau, 1995 pg.116 f. *

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Luntz, Victor 1840 births 1903 deaths Austrian architects Academy of Fine Arts Vienna alumni Academic staff of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna TU Wien alumni Academic staff of TU Wien People from Lower Austria