Bauer Leopold

Jägerndorf (Silesia) 1872 – 1938 Vienna

Architect and arts and crafts designer

In 1890, Bauer moved to Vienna to study architecture. From 1893 to 1894, he was a student under Carl von Hasenauer and from 1895 to 1896 under Otto Wagner. Study trips to Italy, Germany and France. From 1900, he was a member of the Vienna Secession and was also responsible for exhibition design for the association. Villa Reissig, built from Bauer’s plans in Brno in 1901/02, was called the first modern house in the Austrian monarchy. Bauer also planned a villa for the owner of the Lötz glass factory, Max Ritter von Spaun. Alongside his architecture he also designed furniture, ceramics and carpets for the I. Ginzkey company at Maffersdorf (Vratislavice) and for Backhausen & Söhne in Vienna as well as glasses for Lötz Witwe Klostermühle. Lamps and glass designs also for E. Bakalowits & Söhne. From 1913 to 1919, he taught at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna as Otto Wagner’s successor. Along with Josef Hoffmann, Leopold Bauer is regarded as one of the most important architects in the monarchy at the turn of the 19^th/20^th centuries.

Ref.: Thieme Becker, Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler, vol. 3, p. 70 f.