The thesis deals with the House of Artists which is situated in
Hodonin. The building represents the folkloristic type of
architecture. It was built from 1911-13 as a representational
seat of the Union of Moravian Visual Artists (SVUM). The
architect Antonin Blazek, a member of the Union of Moravian
Visual Artists (SVUM), was the author of the building. The
thesis researches the period of 1/3 of 20th century.
The description and characteristics of Hodonin are dealt in
first chapters, the situation where the town was at the
beginning of 20th century. The author describes the national
relation together with the social structure of inhabitants. It
covers the political situation of the Moravian environment in
the time of the late National Revival. The conclusion is that
the inhabitants were divided on the basis of the language
membership into the leading German part and the Czech
subordinated part. Both ethnic groups defined their
relationship on the basis of their nationality. There is
outlined the structural development and the history of the town
in next parts of the thesis together with representational
buildings standing in the town. The Union of Moravian Visual
Artists (SVUM), which is connected with the birth of the house,
is also the object of the thesis´ attention.  The author
describes the artistic and ideological focus of the Union and
its ideas which influenced the genesis of the building. The
next parts of the thesis describe the House of Artists, the
circumstances of its birth, the vote of the town Hodonin and
its accompanying controversies. It deals with Antonin Blazek´s
vote and his relation to the town.
The author implements the building into the conditions of the
town Hodonin in the end of the thesis. He studies the meanings
which it gained for German and Czech ethnic groups. The House
of Artists is considered together with the streams of ideas
which influenced the architecture of the beginning of the
century, mainly folkloristic and aesthetic streams. The
conclusion of the author is the fact that the building is
structurally disunited. Its conception reflects the ideas of
the Union of Moravian Visual Artists (SVUM), it means the
architecture of Art Nouveau focused on regional folk
architecture. The conception of the interior part of the
building is modernistic with the capture of traditional,
historical morphology. Despite the disunion of the building, it
represents the exceptional object in the town Hodonin. The
building obtains several elements of folkloristic style and on
the basis of this fact the building can be understood as the
manifesto of the Union of Moravian Visual Artists (SVUM). The
author considers the building in the context with other
buildings (particularly the town hall in Art Nouveau style and
the building of German grammar school), which were built in the
town at the beginning of the century. The architecture of the
House of Artists is marked as one of the means of the
emancipation fight between the Czech and German ethnic groups.