Jakob Gartner


Jakob Gartner was an Austrian Jewish architect.

Life

Gartner was born on 6 October 1861. He was born into a Jewish family with five children. He studied in Brno and then internship with other architects in Bielitz and Vienna. In 1888 he became independent and designed several dwellings and a synagogue. He died on 15 April 1921 in Vienna. He was laid to rest in Döbling.
Gartner designed several synagogues in historic Hungary, including Debrecen, Trnava, Galgoc, and Târgu Mureş. He was probably also the designer of the synagogue at the Újpest Synagogue in Budapest.
Some of its buildings were later destroyed in the framework of the National Socialist pogroms.
He was married to Anna Lanzer.

Buildings