Iwo Gall

Polish theater director (1890–1959)

Iwo Gall (1925)

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

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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

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* Order of the Labor Standard II (1949)
* Officer's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (1957)

## References

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1. ^ "Barbara Krafftówna: Żywy eksponat?". www.e-teatr.pl. Retrieved 2017-11-15.
2. ^ "Iwo Gall | Twórca | Culture.pl". Culture.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 2017-11-15.
3. ^ Braun, Kazimierz (1996). A History of Polish Theater, 1939-1989: Spheres of Captivity and Freedom. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 9780313297731.

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