#1806a • Biography: Wolfgang Roth (1910-1988)

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Wolfgang Roth was an internationally known set designer. Born in Berlin, he worked with Erwin Piscator and Bertolt Brecht in theater and opera. Roth emigrated to New York in 1938. He designed sets for dozens of Broadway and off-Broadway plays, musicals, and opera productions, including the 1952 world-wide tour of Porgy and Bess. He created The Littlest Circus, a dance-pantomime, which toured the United States for seven years, was featured on Broadway, and produced for television by CBS. His designs were influenced by his training in the underground theater during Nazi Germany, as well as the political artists of the day, and the Bauhaus School. As an artist, Roth's paintings, drawings, collages, and sculpture often portray theatrical themes, especially the circus. Biograph from the Bucks County Artists Database, Michener Art Museum