Costume designer and graphic artist He graduated from the Applied Graphics Department of the State School of Fine Arts in Łódź in 1983. He has been working as a designer or participating in preparing the costumes for film and theatre since 1984. Among his achievements are costumes for film productions including The Love Story of Balthasar Kober (dir. Wojciech Has), The Chancellor and Hand of Iron (dir. Ryszard Ber), Boris Godunov, The Blue Note and The Shaman Woman (dir. Andrzej Żuławski), The Squadron (dir. Juliusz Machulski), Blue Eyes (dir. Waldemar Szarek), The Man From... (dir. Konrad Szołajski) and the Polish cinema hit Kiler (dir. Juliusz Machulski). He designed costumes for Jerzy Hoffman’s giant production, With Fire and Sword. He has worked on theatre costumes for productions directed by Krzysztof Nazar - The Wedding at the Powszechny Theatre and Father Marek on TV Theatre, and for Richard III directed by Henryk Boukołowski.
He has also worked on costumes for children’s films. He has designed for such productions as Machine of Change II and Jacek (dir. Andrzej Maleszka) and Spona (dir. Waldemar Szarek). He also worked on the costumes for the American film The Last Dragon. He has had many exhibitions as a graphic artist, both in Poland and abroad, including France, Japan, Spain and the United States.
At the Polish National Opera he and Magdalena Tesławska prepared the costumes for the production of Moniuszko’s The Haunted Manor directed by Andrzej Żuławski, the costumes for Puccini’s Madame Butterfly and for Verdi’s Otello directed by Mariusz Treliński, with stage design by Boris Kudlička. He also designed the costumes for two other opera productions directed by Mariusz Treliński - The Queen of Spades at Berlin’s Staatsoper Unter Den Linden and the Polish National Opera, and Andrea Chénier with the Teatr Wielki in Poznań, the Washington Opera and the Polish National Opera. He prepared the costume design of Madame Butterfly with the Mariinski Theatre in St. Petersburg and the stage design of the ballet evening Szymanowski and Dance with the Polish National Opera.
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