Georg Korpás

Georg Korpás (born May 23, 1972 in Hungary ) is a Hungarian- German special effects - make- up artist .

Life

Korpás was born in Hungary and came to Munich with his parents as a child , where he attended school on Winthirplatz in the Neuhausen district until 1990 . At the age of twelve he already had the desire to become a make-up artist. After training as a hairdresser, he completed a three-year training course at the theater. He has been working as a make-up artist since the mid-1990s.

In 1997 he had the opportunity to work for István Szabó , who was also from Hungary . Since then he has worked as a make-up artist in numerous German and international stage, film and television productions. Almost 100 productions in which he was involved are listed in the Internet Movie Database alone . He has a special friendship with Michael "Bully" Herbig , in whose productions he has always been responsible for the make-up since the late 1990s, beginning with his film Erkan & Stefan .

He imparts his knowledge in the form of theater seminars and is a trainer for the ARD.ZDF medienakademie .

“The mask image must enter into a symbiosis with the 'character'. The focus is not on the false teeth or the glued-on ears, but only the 'character'. "

- Georg Korpás

Korpás is married and runs his atelier SFX Makeup & Prosthetics Atelier in Munich . He is a member of the SkinArt Special Make Up FX Academy in Berlin and of the Bundesvereinigung Maskenbild eV (BVM), which also served on the board for some time.

Awards

German Film Award 2010 in the category “ Best Make-up ” for Wickie and the Strong Men
German Film Prize 2012 in the category “Best Make-up” with Kitty Kratschke and Katharina Nädelin for Hotel Lux

Web links

Georg Korpás in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Georg Korpás at Crew United
Personal website

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b Marie-Luise Braun: Make-up artist for film productions. Georg Korpas is the man for special effects. Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung , July 19, 2015.
^ ^A ^b ^c Gerhard Midding: Verlebte, Dirty Hair. How Georg Korpás brought the cartoon characters to life at Wickie. Interview, 24 - The knowledge portal of the German Film Academy .
↑ Georg Korpás, 37, Special Make-Up Artist. In: Cinema , August 2009, p. 6.
↑ Professional training, trainer, emergency presentation of plastic masks - cuts, gunshot wounds and other injuries. In: Course calendar 2017 , BRK - Jugendrotkreuz , p. 7.
↑ Georg Korpás. ( Memento of the original from September 6, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2 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. SkinArt, Berlin; accessed on September 6, 2017.

personal data
SURNAME	Korpás, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Korpas, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Hungarian-German special effects make-up artist
DATE OF BIRTH	May 23, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hungary

[Marie-Luise_Braun-1] A ^b Marie-Luise Braun: Make-up artist for film productions. Georg Korpas is the man for special effects. Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung , July 19, 2015.

[vierundzwanzig.de-2] A ^b ^c Gerhard Midding: Verlebte, Dirty Hair. How Georg Korpás brought the cartoon characters to life at Wickie. Interview, 24 - The knowledge portal of the German Film Academy .

[3] Georg Korpás, 37, Special Make-Up Artist. In: Cinema , August 2009, p. 6.

[4] Professional training, trainer, emergency presentation of plastic masks - cuts, gunshot wounds and other injuries. In: Course calendar 2017 , BRK - Jugendrotkreuz , p. 7.

[5] Georg Korpás. ( Memento of the original from September 6, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2 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. SkinArt, Berlin; accessed on September 6, 2017.