Rudolf Wiskoczil

His father, Sándor Wiszkoczil, of Hungarian-Slovak origin, was also an architect and builder who moved from Budapest to Vienna around 1869.

[citation needed] He grew up in near poverty and was therefore exempt from paying fees at the Gewerbeschule [de] (Arts and Crafts School).

Thanks to a scholarship, he was able to attend the Academy of Fine Arts, where he studied with Friedrich von Schmidt and Victor Luntz.

His first assignment was in the Viennese district of Ottakring, where the parish church had become much too small for its growing congregation.

Following the end of World War I, he remained in the civil service, with the building department of the Ministry of Trade and Commerce, but changed his name to Werian.