Florence Klotz

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Florence Klotz , born as Kathrina E. Klotz , also known as Flossie Klotz (born October 28, 1920 in Brooklyn , New York City , New York ; † November 1, 2006 in Manhattan , New York City, New York), was a US -american costume designer . She has received six Tony Awards . The design of the costumes for The Smile of a Summer Night earned her an Oscar nomination.

Live and act

Florence Klotz first attended the Parsons School of Design in New York. She then worked for Brooks Costumes, where she painted fabrics. In 1951 she was the assistant to Irene Sharaff and supported them in costume and facilities for The King and I . This was the beginning of her career as a costume designer.

In the following ten years Klotz assisted well-known costume designers such as Alvin Colt , Lucinda Ballard and Miles White (1914–2000). In 1961, with A Call of Kuprin, she finally took on the role of responsible costume designer for the first time. Her breakthrough came in 1971 with the piece Follies , after which she had numerous other successes. Overall, Klotz was involved in around 60 Broadway productions. She often worked with the composer Stephen Sondheim and director Harold Prince . Klotz's costume creations were opulent, elegant and, in some cases, very expensive.

In addition to her work on Broadway, Klotz also worked as a costume designer for ballet, opera and film. The contact with the film industry came through Harold Prince, who directed both of the films she worked on. She met Elizabeth Taylor while filming The Smile of a Summer Night , for whose costume design Klotz was later awarded an Oscar nomination . She then commissioned her to design her wedding dress for the 1976 wedding to Senator John Warner . Klotz has also furnished several ballet productions by choreographer Jerome Robbins , John Curry's Symphony on Ice and the Madama Butterfly performance by the Lyric Opera of Chicago . Although Klotz preferred musical theater , she occasionally worked on spoken theater performances such as The Little Foxes (1981), Take Her, She's Mine and The Owl and the Pussycat .

After she was involved in a number of less successful pieces such as Harold and Maude , A Doll's Life and Rags in the 1980s , she was able to build on earlier successes with the multi-award-winning musical comedy City of Angels in 1989. In 1994 she was involved in a Broadway production with Show Boat for the last time. Two years later, she ended her career as a costume designer after participating in the performance of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Whistle Down the Wind in Washington, DC

Florence Klotz died of heart failure in her Manhattan apartment at the age of 86 . Her longtime partner, Broadway producer Ruth Mitchell, died in 2000.

Filmography

Awards and nominations
  • Drama Desk Award in the Outstanding Costume Design category
    • 1971: Follies
    • 1976: Pacific Overtures
    • 1978: On the Twentieth Century
    • 1990: City of Angels (nomination)
    • 1993: kiss of the spider woman
    • 1995: Show Boat
  • Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award
    • 1972: Follies
    • 1974: A Little Night Music
    • 1976: Pacific Overtures
  • Further awards
    • 2002: Patricia Zipprodt Award (Fashion Institute of Technology)
    • 2005: Irene Sharaff Lifetime Achievement Award (Theater Development Fund)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Campbell Robertson: Florence Klotz, 86, Creator Of Broadway Styles, Dies.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: The New York Times , November 3, 2006. Retrieved January 6, 2013.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / select.nytimes.com  
  2. ↑ a b c Andrew Gans, Robert Simonson: Florence Klotz, Tony-Winning Costume Designer, Dead at 86 ( Memento of the original from October 23, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Playbill, November 2, 2006. Retrieved January 6, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.playbill.com
  3. ↑ Michael Portantiere: Florence Klotz, Tony Award Winning Costume Designer, Dies at 86. Theatermania, accessed January 6, 2013.
  4. ↑ Florence Klotz ( Memento of the original from April 25, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. livedesignonline.com. Retrieved January 6, 2013.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / livedesignonline.com
personal data
SURNAME Klotz, Florence
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Klotz, Kathrina E. (maiden name); Klotz, Flossie (other names)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American costume designer
DATE OF BIRTH October 28, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Brooklyn
DATE OF DEATH November 1, 2006
Place of death Manhattan , New York City, New York, United States