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Ohmann, Friedrich
(b Lemberg [now Lviv, Ukraine], 21 Dec 1858; d Vienna, 6 April 1927). Austrian architect, painter and sculptor. The son of an architect in imperial government service, he studied architecture with leading historicists Max von Ferstel (1859–1936) and Karl König (1841–1915) at the Technische Hochschule, Vienna (1877–82), and later with Ferdinand von Schmidt at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste. After completing his studies (1885), he taught at the Staatsgewerbeschule in Vienna and in 1889 took a post at the School of Applied Arts in Prague. Although he established a reputation as one of the leading interpreters of the neo-Baroque, Ohmann became an early adherent to the style of the Viennese Secession and designed the first Jugendstil building in Prague, the Café Corso (1897–8). Like most Austrian architects of the period, however, Ohmann never wholly rejected the past and much of his later work blended neo-Baroque and Jugendstil forms.
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