Fingov graduated from the Vienna University of Technology in 1898 with a degree in architecture. with excellent professional training, which opened the studios of his teachers as a student. In the summer of 1897. he was an intern with professor of propriety Karl Konig (1841-1915). In the following academic year he was appointed to the Department of Ancient Architecture by Prof. Karl Mayreder (1856-1935) and was employed in his private studio. in front of the Technical University and the Karlskirche (Ressel Park), exhibited at the Millennium Ausstellung (1897).

Fingov’s stay in Vienna gave him the opportunity to touch the creative charm of the contemporary great masters of new art – the architects J. Hoffmann, J. Olbrich, O. Wagner, J. Urban, the artists Gustav Klimt, Coloman Moser and a whole galaxy of their followers. , and to feel the atmosphere of the newly created Society “Secession” (Jugenstil) – events that predetermine his remarkable work.

Among the first tasks of G. Fingov, as an architect of the palaces in the Bulgarian principality, are the hunting wooden huts in Chamkoria (Borovets), Sitnyakovo and Krichim and the reconstruction of the monastery “St. Dimitar ”in Evksinograd, which have a more modest creative scope (1903-1904).

The small two-storey villa in the name “Vrana” near Sofia, arranged as a summer residence for the princely family, is a true masterpiece of organic architecture and synthesis with applied arts in an elegant Art Nouveau of the highest standard.

In 1906 Fingov left the service of a palace architect to take over the technical management of the construction of the III Boys’ High School “U. Gladstone ”in Sofia (project of K. Marichkov, 1903). The accumulated construction experience stimulated him to build his own home on 38 Shipka Street next year. A characteristic detail of the facade is the sculpture of a female head, the work of N. Andreev, considered the head of the mother of the Freemasons.

His entrepreneurship developed as a company representative of the Czech-Moravian Machine Factory in Prague for water and steam heating systems from March 1, 1907. After the successful construction of 7 more schools in Sofia, together with the architects N. Yurukov (1877-1923) and D. Nichev (1876-1952), in 1913. F. Fingov registered in the Sofia District Court “Technical Bureau G. Fingov &” for representation of various commercial houses and companies, as well as “commission” based in Sofia, together with the former palace architect – Heinrich Meyer.

The bankruptcy of this company, as early as the following year after the Balkan War, forced him to sell the masterpiece of his life – the family house on Shipka Street – to Minister Teodor Teodorov.

Fingov is one of the undisputed giants in the development of Bulgarian architecture of the twentieth century – due to the huge number of realized key sites in the capital and the high professionalism and its diverse and always relevant work.