Leopold Bauer (1 September 1872 – 7 October 1938) was an Austrian-Silesian
architect
An architect is a person who plans, designs, and oversees the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to provide services in connection with the design of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the buildings that h ...
. His work was part of the
architecture event in the
art competition at the
1936 Summer Olympics
The 1936 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XI Olympiad () and officially branded as Berlin 1936, were an international multi-sport event held from 1 to 16 August 1936 in Berlin, then capital of Nazi Germany. Berlin won the bid to ...
.
Work
The Petr Bezruč City House of Culture in
Opava
Opava (; , ) is a city in the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 55,000 inhabitants. It lies on the Opava (river), Opava River. Opava is one of the historical centres of Silesia and was a historical capital of Czech Sile ...
, which is protected as a
national cultural monument of the Czech Republic, belongs to the most valuable works of Leopold Bauer. It was built in the Neo-Renaissance style in 1908–1910.
References
1872 births
1938 deaths
20th-century Austrian architects
Art competitors at the 1936 Summer Olympics
People from Krnov
People from Austrian Silesia
Silesian-German people
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