Krystyna Zachwatowicz

Krystyna Zachwatowicz-Wajda
Krystyna Anna Zachwatowicz-Wajda
Zachwatowicz-Wajda in 2005
Zachwatowicz-Wajda in 2005
Born
Krystyna Zachwatowicz

(1930-05-16) 16 May 1930 (age 94)
Warsaw, Poland
NationalityPolish
Alma materJagiellonian University
Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts
Occupation(s)Scenographer, costume designer, actress
Spouse
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(m. 1974; died 2016)​
FatherJan Zachwatowicz
AwardsCity of Kraków Award
Krystyna Zachwatowicz with her husband Andrzej Wajda (2010).

Krystyna Zachwatowicz-Wajda (born Krystyna Zachwatowicz; 16 May 1930) is a Polish scenographer, costume designer and actress. She is a daughter of architect and restorer Jan Zachwatowicz and Maria Chodźko h. Kościesza, and wife of film director Andrzej Wajda. Member of the Polish Film Academy.[1]

She is a co-founder (with Andrzej Wajda) of the Manggha Centre of Japanese Art and Technology in Kraków.

Biography

Zachwatowicz was born on 16 May 1930 in Warsaw, Poland. She graduated from the History of Art Faculty of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków (1952) and Scenography faculty of the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków (1958).[2]

In 1958, she made her own debut as a scenographer in Marin Držić's Rzymska kurtyzana on the stage of Teatr Zagłębia in Sosnowiec. In 1960, she moved to Sosnowiec, where she was associated with student's theatre of the Silesian University of Technology in Gliwice. There, she designed a scenography to Witold Gombrowicz's The Marriage (Polish: Ślub) directed by Jerzy Jarocki. Zachwatowicz cooperated with Jarocki also in other theatre productions: Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz's The Mother (1964, 1972; Polish: Matka) and The Shoemakers (1971; Polish: Szewcy) at The Old Theatre in Kraków. In The Old Theatre, she made set designs to several performances directed by Konrad Swinarski, i.e.: Zygmunt Krasiński's The Un-Divine Comedy (1965; Polish: Nie-Boska Komedia), William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream (1970) and to plays directed by Andrzej Wajda: Stanisław Wyspiański's November Night (1974; Polish: Noc listopadowa), Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment (1984), and William Shakespeare's Hamlet IV (1989).[2]

From 1958 to the 1970s, Zachwatowicz was an actress of Kraków's Piwnica pod Baranami, where she created a legendary portrait of "the first naive" (Polish: pierwsza naiwna).[3] She cooperated with other theatres in Poland such as: The Groteska Puppet, Mask and Actor Theatre and The Ludowy Theatre in Kraków; with Dramatyczny Theatre and Polish Theatre in Warsaw, and in Wrocław with Polish Theatre.[2]

Awards

References

  1. ^ "Członkowie Polskiej Akademii Filmowej". Polskie Nagrody Filmowe (in Polish). Archived from the original on 13 May 2007. Retrieved 12 May 2007.
  2. ^ a b c "Zachwatowicz Krystyna". WIEM Encyclopedia (in Polish). Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 12 May 2007.
  3. ^ a b c d Mokrzycka-Pokora, Monika (September 2005). "Krystyna Zachwatowicz-Wajda". Kultura polska (in Polish). Instytut Adama Mickiewicza. ISSN 1734-0624. Retrieved 12 May 2007.