Barbara Karinska
Barbara Karinska ( Ukrainian Варвара Андріївна Жмудська Varvara Andrijiwna Schmudska ; * 3. October 1886 in Kharkov , Russian Empire ; † 19th October 1983 in New York City , New York ) was an American costume designer of Ukrainian descent who in 1949 the Oscar for best costume design in the color film Johanna von Orleans (1948) by Victor Fleming .
biography
From the Ukraine native Barbara Karinska began in the early 1940s years as a costume designer for film productions and worked for the first time in 1940 in Paradise Lost by Abel Gance in the creation of a film.
Together with Dorothy Jeakins , she received the Oscar for best costume design in Johanna von Orleans by Victor Fleming in 1949 . At the Academy Awards in 1953 she was nominated together with Antoni Clavé and Mary Wills for the best costume design in the color film Hans Christian Andersen and the Dancer (1952) by Charles Vidor .
Other well-known films with costumes designed by her were Blue is Heaven (1946) by Stuart Heisler and The Pirate (1948) by Vincente Minnelli .
She also had great success as a costume designer for the New York City Ballet, for example with the premiere of the Ballet Symphony in C on October 11, 1948 in the New York City Center . As the first costume designer ever, she received the Capezio Dance Award for her costumes “of visible beauty for the beholder and complete delight for the dancers” . George Balanchine , the founder of the New York City Ballet , paid tribute to Barbara Karinska once with the words:
- "There is Shakespeare for literature and Madame Karinska for costumes." (There is Shakespeare for literature and Madame Karinska for costumes.)
She later spent the last years of her life alternately in Great Barrington , Massachusetts and Domrémy in France , the birthplace of Joan of Arc .
Web links
- Barbara Karinska in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Costumes by Barbara Karinska (engl.)
- Memories of Madame Karinska (Engl.)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Karinska, Barbara |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schmudska, Varwara Andrijiwna; Жмудська, Варвара Андріївна (Ukrainian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American costume designer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 3, 1886 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kharkov , Russian Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 19, 1983 |
| Place of death | New York City , New York , United States |