Barbara Karinska

Barbara Karinska (birth name: Varvara Andrejewna Schmudska; Ukrainian Варвара Андріївна Жмудська ) ( born October 3, 1886 in Kharkiv, Ukraine, † October 19, 1983 in New York City, New York) was an American costume designer of Ukrainian descent who in 1949 Oscar for Best Costume Design in the color film Joan of Arc (1948 ) by Victor Fleming received.

Biography

A native of Ukraine Barbara Karinska began in the early 1940s as a costume designer for film productions and acted for the first time in 1940 in Paradise Lost by Abel Gance in making a movie with.

Along with Dorothy Jeakins she received the 1949 Oscar for Best Costume Design in Joan of Arc by Victor Fleming. At the Academy Awards in 1953, she was together with Clavé and Mary Wills for Best Costume Design in the color film Hans Christian Andersen and nominated The Dancer ( 1952) by Charles Vidor.

Other well-known films with her ​​costumes were designed by Blue is the Sky ( 1946) by Stuart Heisler and The Pirate ( 1948) by Vincente Minnelli.

Great success they had in addition, as a costume designer of the New York City Ballet, such as with the premiere of the ballet Symphony in C on October 11, 1948 New York City Center. The first costume ever they received for their costumes " of visual beauty for the viewer and complete delight for the dancer " the Capezio Dance Award. George Balanchine, the founder of the New York City Ballet, Barbara Karinska once praised with the words:

Later, she spent her final years alternately in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, Domremy in France, the birthplace of Joan of Arc.

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