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Carl Moritz (27 April 1863 – 23 August 1944) was a German architect and real-estate entrepreneur. Based in Cologne, he built the Cologne opera house of 1902, and various banks, theatres and churches in Germany. Born in Berlin, Moritz studied architecture at the Technische Hochschule Charlottenburg.[1] 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 Cologne,[2] 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, where he died in Berg, part of Starnberg.
A large part of his work involved bank building; during his career, Moritz designed about 40 banks, mostly for the Barmer Bank Corporation,[3] for whom he worked as a kind of house architect. About 50 houses and 15 housing estates by him are known.
Moritz built theatres, including the opera house in Cologne in 1902, originally named the Stadttheater (Municipal Theatre).[5] It was destroyed in World War II, as was his Stadttheater Düren (1907).
Buildings still in use today include the Opernhaus Wuppertal (1905),[6] the Stralsund Theatre (1913),[7] the Stanisław Wyspianski Theatre, then "Neues Stadttheater" (New Municipal Theatre), in today's Katowice.
W części Detale – Teatr w Katowicach
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