Leo Bei (costume designer)

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Leo Albert Bei (born November 9, 1918 in Vienna , Austria ; † September 24, 2005 ibid) was an Austrian costume designer for film and theater. He was the father of the musician Leo Bei .

Live and act

Bei was the son of the costume designer Albert Bei ( Heimkehr , Schrammeln , Das Herz muss sein ), who often worked for Gustav Ucicky in the 1940s and died at the end of April 1959 at the age of 72 , his wife Leopoldine (died 1975 at the age of 83) and the father of the musician of the same name (* 1958). His parents founded one of the leading costume workshops in Vienna during the Austrian monarchy . Dr. After training as a dressmaker, Leo Bei had completed a university degree in law when he joined domestic films shortly after the end of World War II and made his debut with Ucicky's Singing Angels in 1947 under the direction of his father .

Since the beginning of the 1950s Leo Bei has regularly designed costumes for Austrian films, several times in collaboration with his renowned colleague Gerdago , with whom he designed a large number of lavish gowns for historical and music films, including Queen's Girls' Years , Die Deutschmeister , Opernball , Sissi - The young empress , Sissi - fateful years of an empress , the emperor and the laundress and the three- wheeled house .

At the beginning of the 1960s, Bei was also hired for US productions made in Austria by the Walt Disney Company ; after 1963 he largely turned away from film and only looked after two ambitious stage productions prepared for television: the opera Fidelio and the opera version by Mérimées Carmen . At Fidelio, Leo Bei cooperated with Leonard Bernstein . Otherwise he devoted himself entirely to theater work: he was head of costume design at the Austrian Federal Theater Holding , and from 1977 to 1980 operations director and deputy director of the Burgtheater . In 1996, Bei received the Medal of Honor from the Filmarchiv Austria . Bei was active as a costume designer until 2001, most recently he designed costumes for Carlo Goldoni's Il Campiello for the Perchtoldsdorf Summer Games .

Leo Bei died in his hometown at the end of September 2005 and was buried on October 11, 2005 in the Vienna Central Cemetery .

Filmography

Theater work

Leo Bei designed, among other things, costumes for

Works

  • Leo Bei, Oskar Pausch , Alice M. Schlesinger: Hundred most beautiful costumes , Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-205-98672-5
  • Costume coat of Boris (Vienna, Austrian Theater Museum), 1976 for the opera Boris Godunow at the Vienna State Opera
  • Michael Fritthum: Pattern of a Life. Development, work and knowledge of the costume designer Leo Bei. 2 vol., Vienna, Univ., Diss., 2004.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Film archive Kay Less
  2. ↑ Leo Bei's biography
personal data
SURNAME By, Leo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES At, Dr. Leo Albert (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian costume designer
DATE OF BIRTH November 9, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH September 24, 2005
Place of death Vienna