Carl Moritz

Carl Moritz ( * April 27, 1863 in Berlin, † August 23 1944 in Berg ( Lake Starnberg ) ) was a German architect and real estate entrepreneur.

Life

Carl Moritz studied architecture at the Technische Hochschule Charlottenburg and laid by a lawyer at the public works, the second state examination. In 1894 he began his career as an independent architect in Berlin, in the same year a study trip to England, one year it took him to Italy. From 1896 to 1898 he was city building inspector at the municipal building department in Cologne. From the autumn of 1898, he worked as a freelance architect in Cologne. He founded in Cologne until the 1930s, a total of eight architectural firms or companies, where he worked closely with the architect Albert beds and Werner steel. In 1934, he retired and settled on Lake Starnberg, where he died in 1944.

Work

A large part of his work make bank building: During his career, Carl Moritz designed about 40, most of the Barmer Bank Corporation, for whom he worked as a kind of house architect. Further, not less than about 50 villas and about 15 housing estates by him are known. In addition, Moritz planned about 20 Catholic religious buildings and seven theater - both construction tasks for which he can be considered a sought-after specialist. He was also very interested in the education of future generations. He held many lectures during his career and wrote several publications.

Writings

  • The development of modern Theaterbaues. ( Paper presented at the meeting of the Association of German migrant architects and engineering teams ( VDAI ) in Dusseldorf on 13 September 1904)
  • New theater culture. From the modern theater. ( = Leaflets of Artistic Culture, books 1-6. ) Stuttgart 1906.
  • Houses and villas of Carl Moritz, architect in Cologne. (= 2nd special issue of the journal The architecture of the XX. Century. ) Ernst Wasmuth, Berlin, 1909.
  • Religious buildings and monasteries, educational institutions and hospitals. ( = 7 special issue of the journal The architecture of the XX. Century. ) Ernst Wasmuth, Berlin, 1910.
  • Banks and other administrative buildings. ( = 9 special issue of the journal The architecture of the XX. Century. ) Ernst Wasmuth, Berlin, 1911.

Theaters

Theater designs

  • Competition 1901: Stadttheater in Bielefeld ( 1902-1904 executed after a design by Bernhard Sehring )
  • Competition 1901: City Theatre in Dortmund ( 1902-1904 executed after a design by Martin Dülfer )
  • Competition 1906: City Theatre in Lübeck ( 1907-1908 executed after a design by Martin Dülfer )
  • Competition 1906: City Theatre in Poznan (now Poznan, Poland) ( 1909-1910 executed after a design by Max Littmann )
  • Competition 1906: City Theatre in Cottbus ( 1907-1908 executed after a design by Bernhard Sehring )
  • Competition 1908: Royal Court Theatre in Stuttgart ( 1909-1912 executed after a design by Max Littmann )
  • Competition 1909: Stadttheater Duisburg ( 1911-1912 executed after a design by Martin Dülfer )
  • Competition 1909: Stadttheater Bremerhaven ( 1910-1911 executed after a design by Oskar Kaufmann)
  • Competition 1909: City Theater in Hagen ( 1910-1911 executed after a design by Ernst Vetterlein )
  • Competition 1911: Great Opera House ( Berlin ) Charlottenburg ( not executed)
  • Competition 1912: New Royal Opera House Berlin ( not executed)
  • Competition 1913: Stadttheater Krefeld ( not executed)
  • Competition 1913: City Theatre in Bonn ( not executed)
  • Competition 1914: Stadttheater in Münster ( Westfalen) ( executed after a design by Max Littmann? )
  • Competition 1919: City Theatre in Gelsenkirchen ( not executed)

Religious buildings (selection)

Other buildings ( incomplete)

Literature and sources

  • Ralph Berndt: Bernhard Sehring. Dissertation, Technical University Cottbus, 1998.
  • Klaus Winands: The theater in Stralsund. In: Monument and Historic Monuments in Mecklenburg- Vorpommern, Volume 6 (1999)
  • Tungsten Hagspiel: Cologne - Marienburg. Buildings and Architecture of a residential suburb. Bachem, Cologne, 1996.
  • Wulf Herzogenrath: The West German pulse from 1900 to 1914. Cat, Kölnischer Kunstverein in 1984.
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