Friedrich Grünanger

Friedrich Grünanger (25 January 1856 – 14 December 1929) was a Transylvanian Austrian architect who worked primarily in Bulgaria.

Born in Schäßburg in

In 1879, he was appointed in the Direction of Public Buildings, part of the Bulgarian Ministry of Internal Affairs, and became Chief Architect of

• Razgrad
  • Mausoleum of the Russian Warriors (1879–1880)
  • Razgrad High School, today Exarch Joseph High School of Foreign Languages
• Rousse
  • regional government building and palace of Knyaz Alexander (co-work), today the
    Rousse Regional History Museum (1879–1882); first governmental building in Bulgaria built for the purpose after the Liberation
    in 1878
  • first navy watchtower and meteorological station in Bulgaria (1883)
• Sofia
  • National Art Gallery and the National Ethnographic Museum
    ) (1880–1882). In 1893/4–1895 built the three-storey east wing and shaped the palace's current appearance
  • two-storey private house with a mansard for Anna Pulieva (1899)
  • Sarmadzhiev House: private house for Haralambi Sarmadzhiev (today Turkish ambassadorial residence)
  • Sofia Spiritual Academy (today Sofia University Faculty of Theology); co-work with other architects
  • Sofia Seminary
    with the St John of Rila Church (1902–1914)
  • Sofia Synagogue (1904–1909)
  • Sofia Mineral Baths
    (1904); preliminary design with arch. Petko Momchilov
  • Defence and Staff College
    park (1906)
  • Yablanski House: private house for Dimitar Yablanski (1907) (until 1993 Chinese Embassy, now a luxury club-restaurant)
• Varna
  • the male high school
• Kyustendil
  • Teachers' Institute (today town hall)

Gallery

• 
  The

  Moorish Revival

  style
• 
  The Yablanski House
• 
  The Battenberg Palace in Rousse
• 
  A weather station in Russe
• 
  Kyustendil town hall
• 
  Sofia Public Mineral Baths - now Sofia Regional Historical Museum

References

• Collective (1980). Encyclopedia of Figurative Arts in Bulgaria, volume 1. Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. pp. 209–210.
• Stern, Marcella, “Friedrich Grunanger”, Österreichische Osthefte, Jg. 35, Wien, (1993): 319–324 (with a portrait);
• Stern, Marcella, “Architekt Friedrich Grunanger”, Österreichische Architektureinflusse in Sofija um die Jahrhundertwende, Sofija, 1998, S. 22–24, 48, 58–59, 68, 81–86, 93.
• “Friedrich Grunanger”, Allgemeine Kunstlerlexikon