Career
He is regarded as one of the most eminent Central European architects of his time. Born in Preßburg, Hungary, Habsburg Empire (today Bratislava, Slovakia), Rumpelmayer worked not only in his home country, but also in Bulgaria, where he designed and constructed the Neo-Baroque royal palace of Bulgaria (today the National Art Gallery) and Knyaz Alexander Battenberg"s summer palace Euxinograd, on the Black Sea coast.
