BiographyFriedrich Schachner was an Austrian historicist architect who is, among other things, the author of the completion of the Prague building of the Czech Savings Bank (now the Czech Academy of Sciences) from the period of 1894-96. He initially studied architecture at the Technical University and later at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna with architects
Eduard van der Nüll and
Augusta Siccard von Siccardsburg. He worked in the studio of Johann Roman and August Schwendenwein, who built a number of city palaces, and undertook several study trips to Italy. Since 1866, he led his own practice in Vienna. Like his teachers, he initially designed in the neo-Renaissance style and later in the neo-Baroque style.
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