{{Short description|Polish theater director (1890–1959)}} thumb|Iwo Gall (1925) '''Iwo Gall''' (born 1 April 1890 in Krakow; died 12 February 1959) was a Polish theater director, stage designer and pedagogue.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.e-teatr.pl/pl/artykuly/250278.html|title=Barbara Krafftówna: Żywy eksponat?|website=www.e-teatr.pl|access-date=2017-11-15}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://culture.pl/pl/tworca/iwo-gall|title=Iwo Gall {{!}} Twórca {{!}} Culture.pl|work=Culture.pl|access-date=2017-11-15|language=pl}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FZsIIF-2PNUC&q=Iwo+Gall&pg=PA174|title=A History of Polish Theater, 1939-1989: Spheres of Captivity and Freedom|last=Braun|first=Kazimierz|date=1996|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=9780313297731|language=en}}</ref>
== Biography == He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, then studied in Berlin and Vienna, where during World War I 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 Warsaw Uprising 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)
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Category:1890 births Category:1959 deaths Category:Polish theatre directors