Otto AXER (1906-1983), Queen Hedwig the Short - costume designs:

1. ceremonial robe, 2. everyday robe, 3. mourning robe, 1974
tempera, cardboard; 50 x 70 cm;
signed p. d.: "OTTO/AXER" in recto (facsimile);
dated: 18 VI. 74;
also handwritten titles and no. " 50".
Costume designs for the film 'Kazimierz the Great' (1975) - director: Ewa and Czeslaw Petelski.
Exhibited: "Otto Axer...,". Nadwiślańskie Museum in Kazimierz Dolny in 2008.

Otto Axer stage designer, painter, pedagogue. In 1924-30 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, in 1930-31 he was a scholarship student in Paris. He made his debut as a stage designer in 1932 and until 1939 was associated with the Municipal Theaters in Lviv and Lodz (1937-39). Among other things, he worked with Leon Schiller ("Journey in Warsaw" by Schober, "The Un-divine Comedy" by Krasinski, "Our City" by Wilder, "The Corsair" by Achard). He was a prisoner of the Altengrabow camp, after returning to Poland he continued to work with Schiller at the Polish Army Theater in Lodz (1946-1949), then was a stage designer at the Polish Theater in Warsaw (1949-1973). He worked as a guest designer with theaters such as the Soldier's House Chamber Theater, the Powszechny Theater and the Stefan Jaracz Theater in Lodz, the Contemporary and Grand Theaters in Warsaw, the Stanisław Wyspiański Theater in Katowice, the Juliusz Osterwa Theater in Lublin, among others. His postwar works include. "Games with the Devil" by Jan Drda, "At the Bottom" by Maksim Gorky, "Don Carlos" by Friedrich Schiller, "Maria Stuart" by Juliusz Słowacki, "Irydion" by Zygmunt Krasiński, "Macbeth" by William Shakespeare (also directed here, 1964), "Biedermann and the Arsonists" by Max Frisch, "Iphigenia in Taurida" by Johann Wolfgang Goethe, "The Countess" by Stanislaw Moniuszko, "King Roger" by Karol Szymanowski. He practiced painting, printmaking and illustration. In 1947-52 he taught at the State Higher School of Theatre in Lodz, then in Warsaw, from 1959 he worked with television.