Historical materials 1967
PQ 1967 - HISTORICAL MATERIALS
International Exhibition of Stage Design and Theatre Architecture – Prague Quadrennial '67
Brussels Pavilion and Wallenstein Riding Hall, Prague, September 22 – October 15, 1967
PQ 67 took place under the auspices of the Minister of Culture and Information Karel Hoffmann and the Mayor of Prague, Ludvík Černý.
FOUNDING OF THE PQ
Contract with the Sao Paolo Biennale 
contract_Brazil.pdf
Proposal for founding of the PQ 1967_proposal.pdf
PARTICIPATING COUNTRIES
Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Finland, France, Italy, Japan, Yugoslavia, Canada, Mexico, the German Democratic Republic, the Netherlands, Poland, Austria, Federal Republic of Germany, USSR, Switzerland, Tunisia
INTERNATIONAL JURY
Radu Beligan - actor, director, Director of Komedia Theater in Bukarest, (Romania)
Paul-Louis Mignon – theater scientist, critic (France)
Vito Pandolfi - historian and theater critic, Director of the Teatro Stabile di Roma (Italy)
Militsa Nikolaevna Pozharskaya - art historian, theater theoretician, educator (USSR)
Josef Svoboda - scenographer, educator, Head of Design at the National Theatre (CSSR)
Beatriz Veiga - Head of Services at the National Theatre (Brazil)
Ladislav Vychodil - scenographer, educator, Head of the Design of the Slovak National Theatre (CSSR)
Jury Foreman: Paul-Louis Mignon
PRIZES AWARDED
National expositions
GOLDEN TRIGA – France – for its exposition as a whole and for the inventive installation of works by stage and costume designers and theatre architects
GOLD MEDAL – SCENOGRAPHY
Karl von Appen (GDR) – for his scenographic work at the Berliner Ensemble
Joseph Sumbatashvili (USSR) – for the stage for Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan the Terrible
SILVER MEDAL – SCENOGRAPHY – not awarded
GOLD MEDAL – COSTUME – Andrzej Majewski (Poland) – for costumes for Stravinsky’s opera Orpheus
SILVER MEDAL – COSTUME – not awarded
Thematic section
PERFORMANCES OF OPERAS BY W. A. MOZART – no medal awarded
Theatre architecture
GOLD MEDAL – Fabio Penteado (Brazil) – for a theatre in Campinas
Czechoslovac exposition
GOLD MEDAL – SCENOGRAPHY – Vladimír Nývlt – for the collection of exhibited stage designs
SILVER MEDAL – SCENOGRAPHY – Pavol M. Gábor, Luboš Hrůza, Vladimír Suchánek – for the collection of exhibited stage designs
GOLD MEDAL – COSTUME – Ludmila Purkyňová – for the collection of exhibited costume designs
SILVER MEDAL – COSTUME – Zdeněk Seydl – for the collection of exhibited costume designs
The jury unanimously recognized the entire Czechoslovak exposition for its artistic richness and diversity.
PROPAGATION
promotional and program materials, press releases
PHOTOS
STATISTICS
Number of countries participating: 20
The number of exhibiting artists: 327
Number of exhibited works: 2,500
Number of exhibiting Czech and Slovak designers: 28
Brussels Pavilion, PKOJF: 5,300 m² of exhibition space used
Wallenstein Riding Hall: 860 m² of exhibition space used
Installation materials: fiberboard panels, pedestals, frame panels of non-standard sizes, mannequins, spotlights, lighting, carousels. Materials produced in the workshops of the National Theatre, Prague Municipal Theatre, Filmové ateliéry and Krátký film, or borrowed from the equipment of various theatres, trade fairs, Prior department stores, and others.
Number of visitors: approx. 13,000 people
Tentative budget: 1.6 million Czechoslovak crowns
TEAM
Concept: Vladimír Jindra, Eva Soukupová
Chair of the PQ Board: Josef Urban, Director of the National Theater
Director: Eva Soukupová
Secretariat: Jarmila Gabrielová
The following Czechoslovak institutions collaborated on the expositions and symposium of the PQ:
CSSR Architects' Association, Czechoslovak Theater Artists' Association, Czechoslovak Fine Artists' Association, Theatre Institute Prague.
PQ Committee Members: Miroslav Dlouhý, Pavol Gábor, Adolf Hoffmeister, Zbyněk Kolář, Jiří Kotalík, Milan Krejčí, Ludmila Melionová, Vladimír Nývlt, Jitka Pušová, Věnceslava Pavrovská, Jan Sládek, Josef Svoboda, Vladimír Syrovátka, Rudolf Thrun, Vlastimil Urban, František Vaníček, Ladislav Vychodil, Adolf Wenig.
Architects: Vladimír Nývlt, Adolf Wenig