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Gruen, Victor (David) [Grünbaum, Viktor]
(b Vienna, 18 July 1903; d Vienna, 14 Feb 1980). American architect of Austrian birth. He received his architectural training at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Vienna. He maintained a practice there until Adolf Hitler annexed Austria. In 1938 he went to New York where he worked in the office of the Ivels Corporation and for Norman Bel Geddes. An early commission in New York was for the Ledererd Shop (1939) on Fifth Avenue. He formed a partnership with Elsie Krummeck (1940–48) and then moved to Los Angeles where he established the office of Victor Gruen Associates in 1951.
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