Krystyna Zachwatowicz

Krystyna ZachwatowiczWajda , born Krystyna Zachwatowicz, is a Polish scenographer, costume designer and actress. She is a daughter of architect and restorer Jan Zachwatowicz and Maria Chodko h. Kociesza, and wife of film director Andrzej Wajda. Member of the Polish Film Academy. She is a cofounder of Centre of Japanese Art and Technology Manggha in Krakw.

Zachwatowicz was born onMay 1930 in Warsaw, Poland. She graduated from the History of Art Faculty of the Jagiellonian University in Krakw and Scenography faculty of the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakw . In 1958 she made her own debut as a scenographer in Marin Dris Rzymska kurtyzana on the stage of Teatr Zagbia in Sosnowiec. In 1960 she moved to Sosnowiec, where she was associated with students theatre of the Silesian University of Technology in Gliwice. There, she designed a scenography to Witold Gombrowiczs The Marriage directed by Jerzy Jarocki. Zachwatowicz cooperated with Jarocki also in other theatre productions Stanisaw Ignacy Witkiewiczs The Mother and The Shoemakers at The Old Theatre in Krakw. In The Old Theatre she made set designs to several performances directed by Konrad Swinarski, i.e. Zygmunt Krasiskis The UnDivine Comedy , William Shakespeares A Midsummer Nights Dream and to plays directed by Andrzej Wajda Stanisaw Wyspiaskis November Night , Fyodor Dostoevskys

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