Georges Wakhévitch
Personal Info
Know For
Art
Gender
Male
Birthday
1907-08-16 (77 years old)
Deathday
1984-02-11
Place of Birth
Odessa, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire [now Ukraine]
Also known As
Georges Vakhevitch
Georges Wakevitch
Georges Wakhevitch
Georges Wakhewitsch
Georges Wakhévitch
Biography
Georges Wakhévitch (Georgy Leonidovich Vakhevich; August 18, 1907 in Odessa, Russian Empire – February 11, 1984 in Paris) was a Russian-born French art director. The son of a naval engineer, he immigrated to France in 1921. He was grew up in Paris, where he studied painting. He was an assistant to film director Lazare Meerson in the 1920s. Wakhévitch also designed sets and costumes for the theatre, the ballet, and the opera. His designs usually used vivid colours and successful sets for Covent Garden included Boris Godunov, Otello, Die Meistersinger and London's first ever staging of Verdi's Macbeth in 1960. He also provided Paris in 1956 w...
Acting
1954
Production
1938
as Art Direction
1938
as Production Design
1954
as Costume Designer
1961
as Production Design
1979
as Production Design
1956
as Art Direction
1956
as Production Design
1956
as Costume Design
1954
as Costume Design
1932
as Art Direction
1958
as Art Direction
1948
as Production Design
1933
as Production Design
1964
as Production Design
1961
as Costume Design
1970
as Production Design
1943
as Production Design
1967
as Head Decorator
1933
as Art Direction
1951
as Art Direction
1958
as Costume Design
1946
as Production Design
1945
as Set Decoration
1961
as Costume Designer
1934
as Production Design
1952
as Production Design
1938
as Set Decoration
1958
as Costume Design
1958
as Production Design
1954
as Production Design
1958
as Art Direction
1959
as Art Direction
1938
as Production Design
1978
as Art Direction
1949
as Art Direction
1953
as Art Designer
1967
as Set Decoration
1967
as Costume Design
1953
as Production Design
1966
as Production Design
1939
as Art Direction
1965
as Art Direction
1948
as Production Design
1940
as Production Design
1973
as Production Design
1938
as Production Design
1948
as Production Design
1939
as Production Design
1938
as Production Design
1972
as Costume Designer
1962
as Set Decoration
1963
as Costume Design
1971
as Production Design
1961
as Costume Design
1971
as Set Decoration
1962
as Costume Design
1942
as Art Direction
1953
as Production Design
1953
as Costume Design
1958
as Production Design
1961
as Set Designer
1954
as Production Design
1950
as Production Design
1950
as Costume Design
1983
as Set Designer
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