Gunilla Palmstierna-Weiss
{{Short description|Swedish scenic and costume designer (1928–2022)}}
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| image = Gunilla Palmstierna-Weiss.jpg
| caption = Palmstierna-Weiss in 2010
| birth_date = {{birth date|1928|3|28|df=y}}
| birth_place = Lausanne, Switzerland
| death_date = {{death date and age|2022|11|20|1928|3|28|df=y}}
| death_place = Stockholm, Sweden
| parents = {{ubl|Kule Palmstierna|Vera Herzog}}
| spouse = {{unbulleted list
| {{marriage|Christopher Sylwan |1948|1952|end=divorced}}
| {{marriage|Peter Weiss|1964|1982|end=died}}
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| Ebba Palmstierna (grandmother)
| Erik Palmstierna (grandfather)
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Gunilla Palmstierna-Weiss (28 March 1928 – 20 November 2022) was a Swedish costume designer, scenic designer, sculptor, ceramist, and actress. She won the 1966 Tony Award for Best Costume Design for her work on Peter Weiss's Marat/Sade (1963).{{cite book|title=Peter Weiss in Exile: A Critical Study of His Works|author=Roger Ellis|year=1987|publisher=University of Michigan Press|page=21}} She has designed sets and costumes for numerous theaters internationally, including the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal Swedish Opera.{{cite magazine|title=Gunilla Palmstierna-Weiss discusses designs and directors|author=Glenn Loney|magazine=Theatre Crafts|volume=12|year=1978|pages=39–44|publisher=Theatre Crafts Associates|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ir1UfDSpDgIC}} From 1966 to 1989, she worked regularly as a set and costume designer for Ingmar Bergman. She also collaborated as a designer with directors Fritz Kortner and Peter Brook.
Biography
Born Gunilla Palmstierna on 28 March 1928 in Lausanne, Switzerland,[https://www.verbrecherverlag.de/author/detail/445 "Gunilla Palmstierna-Weiss"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221121223151/https://www.verbrecherverlag.de/author/detail/445 |date=21 November 2022 }}, verbrecherverlag.de (in German) Palmstierna-Weiss grew up in the Netherlands and Austria. Her parents, Kule Palmstierna and Vera Herzog, worked as physicians, and her grandfather, Erik Palmstierna, was foreign minister in Sweden's first social democratic government. Her mother is of Jewish descent. Her parents divorced when she was young, and she lived in Rotterdam and Berlin with her mother during World War II. After the war, she studied art in Amsterdam and Paris before moving to Sweden where she has remained since. From 1948 to 1952, she was married to the Swedish graphic artist Mark Christopher Sylwan. In 1964 she married German writer, painter, graphic artist, and experimental filmmaker Peter Weiss. They remained married until his death in 1982.{{cite book|title=Understanding Peter Weiss|author=Robert Cohen|publisher=University of South Carolina Press|year=1993}}
Palmstierna-Weiss began her career as a ceramist in the late 1940s and 1950s. She began a romantic relationship with Weiss after the end of her first marriage, and that relationship led to a new artistic interest initially in acting and then scenic and costume design where her artistic focus ultimately settled. She appeared as an actress in several of Weiss's early experimental films. She won a Tony Award in 1966 for her costume designs in Weiss's Marat/Sade, which were later used in the 1967 film version directed by Peter Brook.{{cite magazine|magazine=Aufbau|issn=0004-7813|author=Irene Armbruster|title=Drama eines Lebens: Die schwedische Feministin|pages=18ff|date=October 2008}}
In 2009, she was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.
Palmstierna-Weiss died in Stockholm on 20 November 2022, at the age of 94.{{cite news|title=Scenografen Gunilla Palmstierna-Weiss är död |url=https://www.dn.se/kultur/gunilla-palmstierna-weiss-ar-dod/ |newspaper=Dagens Nyheter|location=Stockholm|date=21 November 2022 |access-date=21 November 2022}}{{cite web |title=Dramaten Sörjer Gunilla Palmstierna-Weiss |url=https://www.dramaten.se/artiklar/gunilla-palmstierna-weiss |website=Dramaten |access-date=21 November 2022 |language=sv}}
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Category:Swedish costume designers
Category:Swedish people of Jewish descent
Category:Women scenic designers
Category:Women costume designers
Category:Recipients of the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany