Patrizia von Brandenstein

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Patrizia von Brandenstein (born November 17, 1939 in Phoenix , Arizona ) is an American film architect and costume designer of Russian-German descent.

Life

The daughter of Russian-German emigrants had traveled through Europe for a long time as a young woman and spent two years in France as a trainee at the Comédie-Française . In the 1960s von Brandenstein worked as a set painter , prop master and tailor at the theater. Among other things, she worked at the Actors Studio . From 1966 she worked for eight years as a costume and set designer at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco . She delivered her first noteworthy costume designs in the fall of 1968 for the productions of 'The Front Page' and 'Don't Shoot Mable It's Your Husband' . Another costume design for the play 'Trumpets and Drums' followed in the fall of 1969 .

In 1971 she switched to film. She began setting the film Bill McKay with Robert Redford . In 1977 she was promoted to chief architect. Since then she has worked with well-known directors such as Miloš Forman , Mike Nichols , Sam Raimi and Brian De Palma . Her greatest challenge, and at the same time Brandenstein's greatest film success, was the musician biography Amadeus in 1983/84 , for which she was allowed to create a comprehensive Rococo ensemble.

Private

She is married to the production designer Stuart Wurtzel (* 1940), whom she met during her time in San Francisco.

Awards

Filmography (selection)

literature

  • Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 1: A - C. Erik Aaes - Jack Carson. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 521.

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annotation

  1. ↑ The year of birth 1943, which is usually read, is wrong. Precise date and place of birth according to K. Weniger's large personal dictionary (based on information from the US professional organization for American film architects)
personal data
SURNAME Brandenstein, Patrizia von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film architect and costume designer
DATE OF BIRTH November 17, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Phoenix , Arizona