藝術家Joseph URBAN (1872-1933) 生平簡歷

出生地： Vienna

地址： NYC

职业： Scenic designer, illustrator, architect

教育： Imperial and Royal Acad. FA, Vienna; Polytechnicum, Viena; Baron Carl Hasenauer.

展出： Awards: Kaiser Prize, for illustration of Edgar Allan Poe's The Mask of the Red Death," 1897; Austrian State Grand medal (for other illustrations); St. Louis Expo, 1901 (gold), Arch. Lg., NY, 1933 (gold). "

工作： Boston Opera House (dir.), 1911; Ziegfeld productions, NY; designed interior of municipal bldg., Vienna; Czar Bridge, Leningrad; Palace of Khedive, Egypt; Schloss of Count Carl Esterhazy near Pressburg Hungary; designer many bldg. in U.S.; color treatment for entire Century of Progress Expo, Chicago.

评论： Came to the U.S. in 1911. His mastery of materials, forms and colors made him internationally recognized as the greatest scenic designer. Urban also designed pavillions in Austria, and made stage settings for a religious pageant.