Gustav Gugitz

Gustav Adolf Franz Xavier Gugitz (10 May 1836 in Klagenfurt – 17 July 1882 in Vienna) was an Austrian architect.

In 1858, he attempted to become self-employed, but his business failed and in 1858 he enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna to study architecture.

In 1859, he served as apprentice to Peter Gerl, and also provided contributions to Josef Hlávka for the Residence of Bukovinian and Dalmatian Metropolitans.

He also attended the lectures of Rudolf Eitelberger at the University of Vienna and travelled to Italy, France, Switzerland and Germany.

After the death of his teachers in 1868, Gugitz was put in charge of the opera house project, with artistic advice from Josef Storck and Hlávka acting as executive architect.

In this period, he also designed many houses and villas and other buildings, including a plant for Karl Adalbert Lanna in Gmunden.

After a period of failing health, Gugitz died of heart disease on 17 July 1882, at the age of 46, in his home in Döbling.