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Exhibiting artists / ateliers

• František Tröster

Additional information: Born 1904 in Vrbičany near Roudnice. He studied architecture under prof. P. Janák, later in Paris. He worked in Algeria as an urbanist, later became professor of the School of Industrial Art in Bratislava. Stage director V. Šulc acquired him for the Bratislava theatre. In 1935 he started cooperating with stage director Jiří Frejka at the National Theatre in Prague. This era marks one of the peaks in the Czechoslovak theatre and scenography. Tröster is also one of the initiators of the tradition of Janáček opera performances. Since 1945 he is the professor of the chair of stage design at the Prague Academy of Art, where he actually brought up an entire generation of Czechoslovak stage designers. At present he cooperates with a number of theatres at home and abroad. His more than 400 stagings are further enhanced by exhibitions, particularly his share in designing the Czechoslovak pavilion at the Brussels EXPO 58, the Exhibition of Glass in Moscow, and Greater Moravia, which is now being instailed abroad. For his extensive artistic activities he has been awarded the title of Artist of Merit. In 1958 he won the Gold Medal for the best stage design at the II. Biennial of the Theatre in Sao Paulo.

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Exhibiting works

• Jean Cocteau: (Očarovaný život), Národní divadlo 1937
  
  
  
• Williame Shakespeare: (Julius Caesar), Národní divadlo (National Theatre), 1936
  

  

  
  
  
• Williame Shakespeare: (Hamlet), Městské divadlo na Vinohradech 1941
  
  
  
• Nikolai Gogol: (The Government Inspector), Národní divadlo (National Theatre), 1936
  
  
  
• Josef Svoboda

Additional information: Born in 1920 at Čáslav. Graduated from the Arts and Crafts College in Prague. In 1947, already during his college days, he was appointed décor chief at the Grand Opera of 5th May in Prague and in 1951 art director of the Prague National Theatre. Up to this day he has brought into effect more than 300 stage sets for theatres at home and abroad. He has scored his greatest successes by his contribution to the performances of Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare, of The Seagull by A. P. Chekhov, of The Last Ones by M. Gorky, and among olhers also to the opera Intolleranza by L. Nono at the theatre La Fenice in Venice and in Boston. He is the author of Laterna Magica and of numerous polyecran scene variants. II is entirely owing to him that the workshops of the National Theatre have developed into a modernly equipped forge being capable of solving even the most pretentious technical problems. Apart from stage design concerns he engages intensively in an exhibition activity. His participation in the Czechoslovak exposition at the Brussels EXPO 58, at the World Exhibition in Montreal, Moscow, Turin etc. belong to his most prominent successes in this field of activities. In 1954 he was awarded the title Laureate of State Prize, in 1966 the titel of The Artist of Merit, in 1968 the titel of the National Artist. At the 3rd Theatre Biennial in Sao Paulo he was awarded the Gold Medal being destined for the best stage designer from abroad. In 1969 he was awarded the Nederlandse Sikkensprijs and the Honorary Doctor's Degree at the Royal College of Art in London

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Exhibiting works

• : (Bloudění), Městské divadlo Na Poříčí 1944
  
  
  
• : (Ze života hmyzu), Národní divadlo (National Theatre), 1965
  
  
  
• Giacomo Puccini: (Tosca), Velká opera 5. května 1947
  
  
  
• : (The Owner of the Keys), Národní divadlo (National Theatre), 1962
  
  
  
• Richard Strauss: (The Woman without a Shadow), Royal Opera, House Covent Garden (Royal Opera, House Covent Garden), 1967
  
  
  
• : (The Entertainer ), Národní divadlo (National Theatre), 1957
  
  
  
• : (Othelo), Národní divadlo (National Theatre), 1959
  
  
  
• Ladislav Vychodil

Additional information: Born in 1920 in Háčky na Hané. He is the chief stage designer at the Slovak National Theatre in Bratislava and the chief of the Department of Stage Design at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava. In 1965 he received a Gold Medal as the best foreign stage designer at the Biennial of Fine Arts in São Paulo. He participated in the PQ in 1967, 1971, 1975 and in 1979. National Artist.

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Exhibiting works

• : (Dnes ještě zapadá slunce nad Atlantidou), Slovenské národní divadlo (Slovak National Theatre), 1961
  

  
  
  
• Arthur Miller: (A View from the Bridge ), Slovenské národní divadlo (Slovak National Theatre), 1959
  
  
  
• : (Wolfs), Státní divadlo 1963