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unusual facts about stage designer



Domenico Quaglio the Elder

He was part of the large Quaglio pedigree of Italian artists involved in architecture, indoor fresco decoration, and scenography (stage design) for the court theaters.

Giuseppe Quaglio

Giuseppe Quaglio (1747 – 1828) was an Italian painter and stage designer, active in scene painting in Mannheim, Frankfurt, and Ludwigsburg.


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Albert Herbert

An old schoolfriend, Bryan Forbes, then a member of the "Stars in Battledress" forces entertainment troupe, picked him as a stage designer.

Anthony Thieme

He quickly found work as a stage designer at the Century Theater in New York, designing sets for the Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova.

Anton Solomoukha

His vision of the world was influenced by Masters like the stage designer Misha Frenkel, the director Sergei Parajanov, the writer Viktor Nekrasov, etc.

Benois

Alexandre Benois (1870–1960), Russian painter and stage designer, son of Nicholas Benois

Deisler

Guillermo Deisler (born 1940–1995), Chilean stage designer, visual poet and mail artist

Duponchel

Henri Duponchel (1794–1868, sometimes erroneously called Charles-Edmond Duponchel), French architect, stage designer, impresario

Franciszka

Franciszka Themerson (1907–1988), Polish, later British painter, illustrator, filmmaker and stage designer

Gae Aulenti

Aulenti also occasionally worked as a stage designer for Luca Ronconi, including for Samstag aus Licht (1984).

Heinz Rehfuss

He made his debut in 1938 at the Städtebundtheater in Biel-Solothurn, as a choral singer and stage designer, and sang as a soloist in Luzern during the 1938-39 season.

Johann Jakob Haid

He worked in England, and it has been suggested that he borrowed from the work of Robert Robinson (c. 1651 – 1706), who was a popular English mezzotint engraver, painter, and stage designer.

Kobashi

Yasuhide Kobashi (1931-2003), a Japanese woodblock print artist, painter, sculptor, and stage designer

Lammert

Mark Lammert (born 1960), German painter, illustrator, graphic artist and stage designer

Léon Bakst

Beginning in 1909, Bakst worked mostly as a stage-designer, designing sets for Greek tragedies, and, in 1908, he made a name for himself as a scene-painter for Diaghilev with the Ballets Russes.

Margo Harkin

In 1980 she joined Field Day Theatre Company founded by Brian Friel and Stephen Rea and went on to train as a Stage Designer with Percy Harris and Hayden Griffin at Motley Theatre Design Course in London.

Menne

Peter Menne (born 1960), German production designer, stage designer, painter and musician

Moritz Eggert

Moritz Eggert created the opening ceremony for the 2006 FIFA World Cup (together with director Christian Stueckl and stage designer Marlene Pohley) and is currently working on a new opera for the Beethovenfest and the Bonn opera house (“Freax”, together with librettist Hannah Duebgen, premiere September 2007, director: Christoph Schlingensief).

Moses Mielziner

Leo Mielziner would marry Ella Friend McKenna and become the father of five-time Tony Award winning stage designer, Jo Mielziner and of the noted actor and MGM Story Director, Kenneth MacKenna.

Ted Vasin

Born the only child of an artist and a geologist in Moscow, Russia, Ted Vasin often attended the Moscow Circus on Tsvetnoy Boulevard where his grandfather Alexander Falkovsky was a costume and stage designer who created costumes for Oleg Popov, Yuri Nikulin and Karandash.