Joseph Franz Seraph Lutzenberger

He worked as an architect in Dresden (1909) and Wiesbaden (1912–1913), and was a pupil of Osvald Polívka (1910) in Prague and of Georg Süßenguth and Heinrich Reinhardt (1911) in Berlin.

When the First World War began in 1914, Lutzenberger served within the German armed forces as a weapon designer, having fought against the Allies in France and Belgium.

When he arrived in Porto Alegre in 1920, Lutzenberger was hired by Weiss CIA, a construction company, and designed important buildings in the city, such as the Igreja São José, the Palácio do Comércio, and the Instituto Pão dos Pobres.

In 1938, he started teaching in the Instituto de Belas Artes, which belongs to the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul nowadays.

A low-profile person, he displayed an exhibition of his works only once in life, during the Ragamuffin War centenary celebrations, in 1935.