Salomon Rimer (1858, Tarnów – 26 October 1931, Lviv) was a prominent Jewish architect in Lviv who made a significant contribution to the city’s architectural development at the turn of the 20th century. From 1881 to 1886, he studied at the engineering faculty of the Imperial and Royal Polytechnic School in Lviv and was granted official architect status in April 1891. He initially lived at 22 Jagiellońska Street (now Hnatyuka Street), later moving to 31 Zyblikiewicza Street (now Ivana Franka Street 59).
Rimer specialized in projects commissioned by the affluent Jewish community and completed numerous important works in the Art Nouveau style. Among his projects was the reconstruction of a sports building (later a theater) on Hnatyuka Street in 1890–1891, which was expanded with a summer stage in 1905 and a new roof in 1918; the building was demolished around 1937–1938. In 1898, he designed a wooden bowling alley in the “Hutsul Secession” style for the “De Laus” Hotel. He also added annexes to the synagogues Agudat Shlomo (1902) and Or Shemesh (1903). Between 1905 and 1907, he built his own house and designed several Art Nouveau tenements, including buildings at 11a (13) Nechuy-Levytskoho Street, 7a Rappoporta Street, 17 Franka Street, 5 Les Kurbas Street (1907), and 24 and 26 Rustaveli Street (1907). He also worked on an annex at 54 Doroshenka Street (1909) and a residential building at 2–4 Chernigivska Street (1912), later modified by Ferdinand Kassler.
In 1903, he designed a wooden storefront display for a shop at 16 Rynok Square, combining classicist, Gothic, and Renaissance elements. His most iconic work in Lviv Secession style is the tenement at 5 Les Kurbas Street (1907), with a facade fully clad in polychrome majolica tiles inspired by Otto Wagner’s Viennese Secession, produced by the local Mund Brothers’ ceramic factory.
Rimer also designed and reconstructed engineering structures, residential buildings, synagogues, and theater venues, demonstrating the broad scope of his practice. As the father of the artist Oleksandr Rimer, he left behind an important family legacy as well. He died on 26 October 1931 and was buried in Lviv.