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Carl Moritz (27 April 1863 – 23 August 1944) was a German architect and real-estate entrepreneur. Based in

Cologne Cologne ( ; german: Köln ; ksh, Kölle ) is the largest city of the German western state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) and the fourth-most populous city of Germany with 1.1 million inhabitants in the city proper and 3.6 millio ...

, he built the Cologne opera house of 1902, and various banks, theatres and churches in Germany.

Career

Born in

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, Moritz studied architecture at the Technische Hochschule Charlottenburg. In 1894 he began his career as an independent architect in Berlin; the same year he took a study trip to England, one year later to Italy. From 1896 to 1898 he was inspector at the municipal building department in

, after which he worked there as a freelance architect. He founded eight architectural firms or companies in Cologne in the 1930s, working closely with the architects Albert Betten and Werner Stahl. In 1934 he retired and settled on

Lake Starnberg Lake Starnberg, or ''Starnberger See'' ) — called Lake Würm, or ''Würmsee'' , until 1962 — is Germany's second-largest body of fresh water, having great depth, and fifth-largest lake by area. It and its surroundings lie in three different Ba ...

, where he died in Berg, part of

Starnberg Starnberg is a German town in Bavaria, Germany, some southwest of Munich. It is at the north end of Lake Starnberg, in the heart of the " Five Lakes Country", and serves as capital of the district of Starnberg. Recording a disposable per-cap ...

. A large part of his work involved bank building; during his career, Moritz designed about 40 banks, mostly for the Barmer Bank Corporation, for whom he worked as a kind of house architect. About 50 houses and 15 housing estates by him are known. Moritz also planned twenty Catholic religious buildings and seven theatres, both construction tasks for which he can be considered a sought-after specialist. He was one of the developers of

neo-Gothic Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic, neo-Gothic, or Gothick) is an architectural movement that began in the late 1740s in England. The movement gained momentum and expanded in the first half of the 19th century, as increasingly ...

architecture in Cologne. He was very interested in the education of future generations, and during his career, held many lectures and wrote several publications.

Works

Moritz designed theatres, including the

opera house An opera house is a theater (structure), theatre building used for performances of opera. It usually includes a Stage (theatre), stage, an orchestra pit, audience seating, and backstage facilities for costumes and building sets. While some venu ...

in Cologne in 1902,Thorsten Leiendecker and Nadine Leiendecker originally named the ''Stadttheater'' (Municipal Theatre). It was destroyed in World War II, as was his Stadttheater Düren (1907). Buildings still in use today include the

Opernhaus Wuppertal Opernhaus Wuppertal (Wuppertal Opera House) is a German theatre in Wuppertal, North Rhine-Westphalia. It houses mostly performances of operas, but also plays, run by the municipal Wuppertaler Bühnen. The house is also the venue for dance per ...

(1905), the Stralsund Theatre (1913), the Stanisław Wyspianski Theatre, then "Neues Stadttheater" (New Municipal Theatre), in today's

Katowice Katowice ( , , ; szl, Katowicy; german: Kattowitz, yi, קאַטעוויץ, Kattevitz) is the capital city of the Silesian Voivodeship in southern Poland and the central city of the Upper Silesian metropolitan area. It is the 11th most populo ...

, and a baking factory that now hosts the Hans Peter Zimmer Art Foundation. Church buildings include St. Joseph, Bielefeld ( de) (1910) and the in

Münster Münster (; nds, Mönster) is an independent city (''Kreisfreie Stadt'') in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is in the northern part of the state and is considered to be the cultural centre of the Westphalia region. It is also a state d ...

(1930). In Cologne, he built the in 1906, and the in 1910.

Publications

* "" (Lecture at the convention of the Verband deutscher Architekten und Ingenieur-Vereine (VDAI) in Düsseldorf on 13 September 1904) :In: ', 1904 :In: ', 1904, No. 77 * "" (in ''Flugblätter für künstlerische Kultur'') Stuttgart 1906. * "" (in the second extra edition of the magazine ''Die Architektur des XX. Jahrhunderts''.) Ernst Wasmuth, Berlin 1909. * "" (in the seventh extra edition of the magazine ''Die Architektur des XX. Jahrhunderts''.) Ernst Wasmuth, Berlin 1910. * "" (in the ninth extra edition of the magazine '.) Ernst Wasmuth, Berlin 1911.

References

Footnotes

* Ralph Berndt: ''

Bernhard Sehring Ernst Bernhard Sehring (1 June 1855 in Edderitz, Anhalt – 27 December 1941) was a German architect. Life Sehring came from a petty-bourgeois village background and was the son of a Dessau construction foreman. He was boarded by Professor Hap ...

.'' dissertation, TU Cottbus, 1998. * Klaus Winands: ' In: , volume 6 (1999) * Wolfram Hagspiel: ' Bachem, Köln, 1996. * Wulf Herzogenrath: ' catalogue, Kölnischer Kunstverein 1984.

External links

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''Teatr Slaski im. Stanislawa Wyspianskiego''
andreas-praefcke.de
Wohnhäuser und Villen von Carl Moritz Architekt in Cöln. (Architektur des XX. Jahrhunderts, 2. Sonderheft 1909)
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