Fellner & Helmer

Fellner & Helmer was an architecture studio founded in 1873 by Austrian architects Ferdinand Fellner and Hermann Helmer.

Ferdinand Fellner and Hermann Helmer

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.[1][2] 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, Hans Makart, Theodor Friedl, and other significant artists.

Theatres by Ferdinand Fellner

Timișoara National Theatre, Austro-Hungary, now Romania. Only the side wings were restored according to the original design.

1871–72 Stadttheater, Vienna, Austria, (destroyed by fire in 1884). With Ferdinand Fellner the Older.
1871–75 Timișoara National Theatre, Romania. With Ferdinand Fellner the Older.

Theatres by Fellner and Helmer

Original design of the Rijeka theatre's west façade (1882)

Katona József Theater auditorium

Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb

National Theatre of Szeged, (1883)

Slovak National Theatre, Bratislava, (1885-86)

Odessa Opera Theater (1887)

Volkstheater, Vienna, (1889)

Oradea National Theatre, (1900), Austro-Hungary, now Romania

Ivan Vazov National Theatre in Sofia, Bulgaria (1906)

Theatres designed by Fellner & Helmer[1]

1874–75 Népszínház, Budapest, Hungary (demolished 1965)
1881–82 Mahen Theatre in Brno, Czech Republic, (the first theatre in Europe with electrical lighting)
1881–83 "Stadttheater" in Liberec, Czech Republic
1882–83 Szeged National Theatre, Hungary
1883–85 Croatian National Theatre in Rijeka, Croatia
1884–86 Theatre in Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic
1884–87 Opera Theater, Odessa, Ukraine
1885–86 Slovak National Theatre (as "Königliches Freistädtisches Theater"), Bratislava, Slovakia, 1886
1886–87 Prague State Opera (as "Neues Deutsches Theater"), Prague, Czech Republic
1887–88 Ronacher, Vienna, Austria (altered after fire)
1888–89 Volkstheater (previously Deutsches Volkstheater), Vienna, Austria
1890–91 Opera House, Zürich, Switzerland
1891–92 Komische Oper in Berlin, Germany
1892–93 State Theatre in Salzburg, Austria
1892–94 Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden, Germany
1893–95 Tonhalle, Zürich, Switzerland
1894–95 Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb, Croatia
1894–96 Iaşi National Theatre, Romania
1895–96 Vígszínház in Budapest, Hungary
1895–96 Katona József Theatre, Kecskemet, Hungary
1896–97 Konzerthaus Ravensburg, Germany
1898–99 Opernhaus in Graz, Austria
1898–99 Stadttheater in Berndorf, Austria
1899–00 Oradea National Theatre, Oradea, Romania
1899–00 Deutsches Schauspielhaus, Hamburg, Germany
1901–02 Stadttheater Fürth, Germany
1902 Theater an der Wien, Vienna, Austria (altered 1960-61)
1903–04 Wilam Horzyca Theatre in Toruń, Poland
1904–05 Theatre in Chernivtsi, Ukraine
1904–06 Ivan Vazov National Theatre, Sofia, Bulgaria
1904–06 Cluj-Napoca National Theatre, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
1906–07 Theatre in Jablonec nad Nisou, Czech Republic
1906–07 Stadttheater Gießen, Germany
1906–09 Theatre in Mladá Boleslav, Czech Republic
1908–09 Stadttheater, Baden bei Wien, Austria
1909–10 Stadttheater in Klagenfurt, Austria (expansion 1996-98 by Günther Domenig)
1909–1910 Stadttheater Teschen, Ö.-Schlesien / Cieszyn, Poland
1910–13 Konzerthaus, Vienna, Austria
1911–13 Akademietheater, 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, Croatia
1894 Palais Rothschild, Prinz-Eugen-Straße, Vienna, Austria
1894–95 Palais Lanckoronski, Vienna, Austria
1897 Castle, Žinkovy, Czech Republic
1897–1898 Noble casino, Lviv, Ukraine
Colonnade Park (Czech: Sadová kolonáda), Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic
Grandhotel Pupp, Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic
Hotel Slovan (as "Hotel Waldeck", 1893) in Plzeň, Czech Republic
Imperial bath (Bath I), Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic
Market Colonnade, Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic
Art Pavilion in Zagreb, Croatia, 1898[3]
Palace of Justice, Suceava, Romania, 1885
1898–1900 Goetz Palace in Brzesko, Poland
1899–1900 Hotel George, Lviv, Ukraine
Potocki Palace, Antoniny, Ukraine
Villa, 20 Mickiewicza Street in Toruń, Poland
Semmering: Hotel Panhans
Semmering (Niederösterreich) - Dependance Waldesruhe 1908
Semmering (Niederösterreich) - Dependance Fürstenhof
Department store Kastner & Öhler in Graz (1914)

Sources

"Theatres built by Fellner & Helmer". andreas-praefcke.de. Retrieved 2006-07-30.

Notes

Architekturzentrum Wien: "Ferdinand Fellner II.", (in German), retrieved 30 March 2013
How One Vienna Architecture Firm Defined the Opera House in Central Europe
Damjanovic, Dragan. "Croatian Pavilions at the 1896 Millennium Exhibition in Budapest, in: Ephemeral Architecture in Central and Eastern Europe in the 19th and 21st Centuries, L'Harmattan, Paris, 2015, 51-74". Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

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[AZW-1] Architekturzentrum Wien: "Ferdinand Fellner II.", (in German), retrieved 30 March 2013

[2] How One Vienna Architecture Firm Defined the Opera House in Central Europe

[3] Damjanovic, Dragan. "Croatian Pavilions at the 1896 Millennium Exhibition in Budapest, in: Ephemeral Architecture in Central and Eastern Europe in the 19th and 21st Centuries, L'Harmattan, Paris, 2015, 51-74". Cite journal requires |journal= (help)