Thorkel Møller
Thorkel Luplau Møller (28 July 1868 – 21 December 1946) was a Danish architect who primarily worked in and around Aarhus at the turn of the 20th century. Stylistically he worked in the National Romantic style and later Baroque Revival.
Also recorded as Svein A. Moller
Thorkel Møller
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- Name
- Thorkel Møller
- Born
- 28 July 1868
- Birthplace
- Sorø, Denmark
- Died
- 21 December 1946
- Place of death
- Aarhus, Denmark
- Education
- Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts
- Nationality
- Kingdom of Denmark.
- Occupation
- architect.
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• Name — Thorkel Møller • Born — 28 July 1868 • Birthplace — Sorø, Denmark • Died — 21 December 1946 • Place of death — Aarhus, Denmark • Education — Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts • Significant Buildings — Marselisborg Hospital, Aarhus Hotel Royal, Aarhus • Illustration — Marselisborg Hospital • Illustration — Ny jydske Kjøbstad-Creditforening
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Thorkel Møller appears in the authority records of the Getty Union List of Artist Names as an architect (1868 – 1946). Thorkel Møller was born in 1868 and died in 1946.
Biography
Biography
Thorkel Møller was born in Sorø, Denmark. He was the son of Hans Georg Møller and Julie Augusta Luplau. He moved to Copenhagen where he obtained a degree in architecture from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture in 1898. He conducted travel studies to Germany and Italy between 1897 and 1900. He was initially employed by architects Hack Kampmann and Martin Nyrop but in 1900 he was hired by Jydske Landboforeninger in Jutland. In 1902 he exhibited at Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition. Later he established an independent practice. From 1924 until 1946, he was supervisor at the Marselisborg Palace. Møller died in 1946 at Aarhus.
Selected works
Selected works
• Hotel Royal (1901, with Eggert Achen) • Grenaa Handels- og Landbrugsbank (1904) • Middelfart Rectory (1905) • St. Joseph's Hospital, Aarhus (1907) • Ebeltoft Rectory (1908) • Vejle Rectory (1908) • Bispehus, corner of Skolegade and Skolegyde (1908) • Rekreationshjemmet Sixtus, Middelfart (1911) • Marselisborg Hospital, Aarhus (1911–13) • Ny jydske Kjøbstad-Creditforening, Emanuel Sejrs Gade, Aarhus (1911–12, with Eggert Achen) • Sabro Retirement Home (1919) • Folketeatret, Aarhus (1922) • Købmands- og Haandværkerbanken, Store Torv 12, Aarhus (1934)

1905 in Aarhus
Peter Lars Elfelt (før Petersen) · Registration of Danish Stereoviws (RODS)
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1868
Thorkel Møller was born on 28 July 1868.
1946
Thorkel Møller died on 21 December 1946.
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Thorkel Møller was born at Sorø.
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Thorkel Møller died at Aarhus.
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Thorkel Møller was born in Sorø.
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Thorkel Møller died in Aarhus.
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- 1.David Birnbaum. Thorkel Møller. Kunstindeks Danmark & Weilbach Kunstnerleksikon.
- 2.Aarhus City Archives. Thorkel Luplau Møller.
- 3.Danish Ministry of Culture. Thorkel Møller.
- 4.Århus: 1870-1945, Århus byhistoriske Udvalg 1998, s. 49.
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