Iwo Gall
Iwo Gall (born 1 April 1890 in Krakow; died 12 February 1959) was a Polish theater director, stage designer and pedagogue.[1][2][3]
Biography
[edit]He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, then studied in Berlin and Vienna, where during World War I he worked with the Polish theater. After the war he worked at the Teatrze im. Juliusza Słowackiego w Krakowie, and then collaborated with Juliusz Osterwa's "Reduta " (mainly as a stage designer). He was the director of the Chamber Theater in Czestochowa (1932-1935). During the Nazi occupation he ran a secret drama studio, which was functioning until the outbreak of the Warsaw Uprising and from April 1945 resumed operations in Cracow.
Decorations
[edit]- Order of the Labor Standard II (1949)
- Officer's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (1957)
References
[edit]- ↑ "Barbara Krafftówna: Żywy eksponat?". www.e-teatr.pl. Retrieved 2017-11-15.
- ↑ "Iwo Gall | Twórca | Culture.pl". Culture.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 2017-11-15.
- ↑ Braun, Kazimierz (1996). A History of Polish Theater, 1939-1989: Spheres of Captivity and Freedom. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 9780313297731.
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