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Bonatz, Paul (Michael Nikolaus)
(b Solgne, Lorraine, 6 Dec 1877; d Stuttgart, 20 Dec 1956). German architect. He graduated from the Technische Hochschule in Munich (1900) and worked as an assistant to Theodor Fischer at the Technische Hochschule in Stuttgart (1902–6). When Fischer moved to Munich (1908), Bonatz was appointed as his successor. In 1911 he won the competition for the rebuilding of the main railway station in Stuttgart, and the modified design of 1913 was built in collaboration with F. E. Scholer (b 1874), with whom he shared a practice between 1913 and 1927. The station was finally completed in 1928, the design, in Bonatz’s words, ‘purified by the gravity of the war’. This paring down process took the project out of the realm of 19th-century historicism, and the resulting monumental, yet clear statement of the station’s various functions anticipated the rationalist Modernism of the 1920s. Other important works from Bonatz’s early career were the Henkel warehouses (1908–9) at Biebrich, the greatly admired university library (1910–12) at Tübingen and the Stadthalle (1912–14) at Hannover.
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