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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

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, where he died in

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, part of

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. 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

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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 theatre building used for performances of opera. It usually includes a stage, an orchestra pit, audience seating, and backstage facilities for costumes and building sets. While some venues are constructed specifically fo ...

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 perfo ...

(1905), the

Stralsund Theatre The Stralsund Theatre (german: Stralsunder Theater) in the German town of Stralsund has a long tradition. Performances of theatre pieces on the ''Alter Markt'' are documented in the years 1553 (''"Tragedie van deme Daniel"'') and 1584 (''"De Trag ...

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

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, 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 di ...

(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.'' 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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