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Adolphe Appia (1 September 1862 – 29 February 1928) was a Swiss architect and theorist of stage lighting and décor. He was the son of Red Cross co-founder Louis Appia.
Dec 13, 2013 · Adolphe Appia, (1862-1928) was a Swiss architect, stage designer and theorist of stage lighting and décor. His theories and realized works transformed the practice of stage design and he had a great influence on the development of performing arts.
Adolphe Appia (born Sept. 1, 1862, Geneva, Switz.—died Feb. 29, 1928, Nyon) was a Swiss stage designer whose theories, especially on the interpretive use of lighting, helped bring a new realism and creativity to 20th-century theatrical production.
A PROFILE OF ADOLPHE APPIA WALTHER R. VOLBACH September 1, 1962, marked the one hundredth anniversay of Adolphe Ap-pia's birth. All of us are thoroughly acquainted with the artistic achieve-ments of the Swiss master. We admire his designs and his profound ideas in his books and articles. Yet strange as it is, we know very little about Appia
Jun 4, 2015 · Beyond the theatre, the use of light as a material, plastic form can also be traced and experienced through the work of artists such as James Turrell and Olafur Eliasson. Through light, Adolphe Appia at once liberated the stage space and offered a plethora of new creative possibilities.
Adolphe Appia. by Pericles Lewis. The Swiss theorist Adolphe Appia (1862-1928), like the English actor and set designer Gordon Craig, created methods for implementing Richard Wagner’s vision of the “total work of art” in the theater.
In the complex art of theatrical design and production, the first decades of this century saw no more original or lastingly influential innovator than Adolphe Appia (1862–1928).
May 14, 2018 · Adolphe Appia (1862-1928) developed theories of staging, use of space, and lighting which have had a lasting influence on modern stagecraft. Adolphe Appia was born in 1862 in Geneva, Switzerland. His father, Doctor Louis Paul Amedee Appia, was a highly respected physician.
A ‘choréographie’ of light and space: Adolphe Appia and the first scenographic turn Scott D Palmer While the significance and influence of Appia's writings and his storyboard scenarios of Wagnerian operas are uncontested, their origin has been explained almost universally as instigated by a combination of his musical inspiration and the ...
Adolphe Appia radically transformed Western scenography, abolishing hundreds of years of design based on the illusionistic image and creating a theatre of light, space, and the human figure. In the process he helped that theatre free itself from the constraints of the proscenium frame.
