Iwo Gall (born 1 April 1890 in Krakow; died 12 February 1959) was a Polish theater director,

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and

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Biography

He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, then studied in

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, where during

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he worked with the Polish theater. After the war he worked at the Teatrze im. Juliusza Słowackiego w Krakowie, and then collaborated with Juliusz Osterwa's "''Reduta'' " (mainly as a stage designer). He was the director of the Chamber Theater in Czestochowa (1932-1935). During the Nazi occupation he ran a secret drama studio, which was functioning until the outbreak of the

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and from April 1945 resumed operations in Cracow.

Decorations

* Order of the Labor Standard II (1949) * Officer's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (1957)

References

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