Georges Wakhévitch
Personal Info
Known for
Art
Gender
Male
Birthday
1907-08-16
Day of Death
1984-02-11 (76 years old)
Place of Birth
Odessa, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire [now Ukraine]
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 with new sets for Gounod's Faust, replacing some in use for over half a century.
He was the father of avant-garde composer Igor Wakhévitch.
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Known For
Acting
(1954)
Crew
(1983)
The Tragedy of Carmen
Set Designer
(1979)
Meetings with Remarkable Men
Production Design
(1978)
La Puce à l'oreille
Art Direction
(1973)
Otello
Production Design
(1972)
Électre
Costume Designer
(1971)
Delusions of Grandeur
Production Design, Set Decoration
(1970)
King Lear
Production Design
(1967)
Oscar
Head Decorator
(1967)
All Mad About Him
Set Decoration
(1967)
Bizet Carmen
Costume Design
(1966)
Funny Money
Production Design
(1965)
Crime on a Summer Morning
Art Direction
(1964)
Diary of a Chambermaid
Production Design
(1963)
Scheherazade
Costume Design
(1962)
Crime Does Not Pay
Set Decoration, Costume Design
(1961)
Famous Love Affairs
Production Design
(1961)
Black Tights
Costume Design
(1961)
Don Giovanni
Costume Designer
(1961)
King of Kings
Costume Design, Set Designer
(1959)
Marie-Octobre
Art Direction
(1958)
Clara and the Villains
Art Direction
(1958)
Tamango
Costume Design
(1958)
A Woman Like Satan
Costume Design, Production Design
(1958)
Me and the Colonel
Art Direction
(1958)
Paris Holiday
Production Design
(1956)
Don Juan
Art Direction, Production Design, Costume Design
(1954)
Flesh and Desire
Costume Designer, Production Design
(1954)
Mademoiselle Nitouche
Costume Design
(1954)
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
Production Design
(1953)
King Lear
Art Designer
(1953)
Innocents in Paris
Production Design
(1953)
The Beggar's Opera
Production Design, Costume Design
(1952)
The Seven Deadly Sins
Production Design
(1951)
The Medium
Art Direction
(1950)
Miquette
Production Design, Costume Design
(1949)
Now Barabbas
Art Direction
(1948)
Dedee
Production Design
(1948)
The Eagle with Two Heads
Production Design
(1948)
The Queen's Lover
Production Design
(1946)
The Eternal Husband
Production Design
(1945)
Box of Dreams
Set Decoration
(1943)
The Eternal Return
Production Design
(1942)
L'assassin a peur la nuit
Art Direction
(1940)
Schubert's Serenade
Production Design
(1939)
Personal Column
Art Direction
(1939)
Louise
Production Design
(1938)
Precious Fools
Art Direction, Production Design
(1938)
Conflit
Set Decoration
(1938)
The Postmaster's Daughter
Production Design
(1938)
La Marseillaise
Production Design
(1938)
Gibraltar
Production Design
(1934)
The Daughters of the Concierge
Production Design
(1933)
The Man with the Hispano
Production Design
(1933)
A Man's Neck
Art Direction
(1932)
That scoundrel Morin
Art Direction