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Architect Bernhard Grueber (1806-1882)
Laštovičková, Věra ; Vybíral, Jindřich (advisor) ; Horyna, Martin (referee)
Bernhard Grueber (1806-1882) was invited to Prague in 1845 to become professor of Architecture at the local Academy of Arts. Being an experienced Bavarian architect from Munich, from the art centre of those times, he was expected to establish a high-quality school of architecture. This school had been founded not long before and his task was to bring up a new generation of creative personalities. Munich romanticism was supposed to become an alternative to Austrian state utilitarianism. Grueber was expected to enhance the vernacular architecture to the position of real art. But the conditions did not incline towards that. After the revolution of 1848 the emancipated Bohemian national movement did not support the production of the German artist. The task to revive vernacular art was entrusted to Bohemian artists. Neither German romanticism was found worth succession. And what more, Grueber provoked emotions of the Czech National Revival supporters with his art-historian works, where he emphasizes the common dependence of Czech art on German models. At the end he had to return to his native Bavaria in 1873. But paradoxically the young generation of architects of the end of 19th century, in their effort of finding the new true national style, drew from the same ideological source as the cursed architect: from...
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Political ideas of Bohumil Laušman - story of the democratic socialist
Horák, Pavel ; Čechurová, Jana (advisor) ; Gebhart, Jan (referee)
Bohumil Laušman (born August 30th, 1903) was a member of the Social Democratic Party. He was elected member of the National Assembly for the Pardubice region after ten years in regional politics. At the age of thirty-one he became the youngest Member of Parliament. He organised the foundation of the second parliament formation after the Munich events within the system of limited democracy, the National Labour Party. Not only did he show courage, he also showed sense for reality, when he was regulating some left-wing radicals in the weak party. He participated actively in the resistance after the establishment of the protectorate. In his resistance, he promoted collaboration across the political spectrum. That is why the selfconfident Laušman entered the exile with the idea that the left-wing party should have a moral right to determine political direction of exile institutions, which were forming at that time. His obvious left-wing tendency and non-constructive behaviour are possible to be seen after the failure of his political formation of Czechoslovakia's resistance movement in Paris and London. He travelled to the USSR in the middle of the year 1942 to get acquainted with political ideas of the representatives of the Czechoslovak resistance residing there, possibly to get their political support. During...
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Anti-immigration Attitude in Czech Music: Semiotic Analysis
Růžička, Miroslav ; Podzimek, Jan (advisor) ; Soukup, Martin (referee)
In my diploma thesis, I am reconstructing the anti-immigration attitude in Czech nationalist music production in the year 2016 in the context of the so-called European migration crisis. The sample consists of five selected music videos for nationalist protest songs reacting to the migration crisis and events connected to it. The thesis is based on the theoretical resources of social semiotics and the method of research is the multimodal semiotic analysis, which allows detailed research of the contents of complex communicates like music videos. In the theoretical part, I focus on acquainting the reader to the basics of semiotics, from where I gradually transfer to the school of social semiotics and their theories of modes and multimodality which represent the theoretical background for the analysis in the practical part. Next, I turn to clarifying the progress of the so-called European migration crisis in the years 2015 and 2016 which were crucial for the creation of these nationalist music videos. Also, I justify the choice of the sample and the analyzed themes. The practical part the contains the analysis of the selected music videos using the multimodal semiotic analysis considering three modes - the mode of speech, moving pictures and music. I decode the signs belonging to the pre-set themes....
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Architectural proposals of National Gallery designed by Josef Gočár
Tvrdá, Zuzana ; Biegel, Richard (advisor) ; Macek, Petr (referee)
The aim of this work is to describe events that followed approval of the construction work of the gallery. The gallery was supposed to provide adequate exhibition space to display state-owned collection created by merging Society of Patriotic Friends of the Arts, The Modern Gallery and others. Following the first prize of the architectural competition for design of the gallery, Josef Gočár was entrusted with the construction of the building. Analysis was focused especially on 20s and 30s of the 20th century. Individual chapters deal with all designs produced for Kampa and Letna, respectively. Apart from the description of the designs, this work carefully follows background of their creation and reactions the building invoked. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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Literary country in protectorate cinematography
Svěcená, Dobroslava ; Klimeš, Ivan (advisor) ; Svatoňová, Kateřina (referee)
(in English): This paper deals with the beginnings of nationally-emancipatory and patriotic expressions, which became part of the Czech rural prose during the nineteenth century and which are reflected as nation-defending tendencies in protectorate cinematography by a medium of film adaptation in the twentieth century. The paper intends to interconnect both of these historical periods. Due to the political and social reasons there was increased amount of revivalist ideals of the national rural life in the classic Czech rural prose as well as in the films. The ideals came from national historical traditions and from the cult of the nature and countryside, in which the topos of a "little cottage" ("idyllic place") played the major role. These elements became part of the self-image of the Czech people during the rise of the modern Czech nation (i.e. from the beginning of the nineteenth century till the World War I) and were intensified in the era of national menace during the protectorate. Last part of the paper, which uses the example of the writer Božena Němcová and her novel Babička, shows the concrete expressions of these ideals, that became part of her cult during the decades.
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Distinguished contribution of Míla Pačová - Krčmářová and Prof. JUDr. Jan Krčmář in the fields of arts
Košťálová, Michaela ; Beneš, Zdeněk (referee) ; Pech, Milan (referee)
Title: Distinguished contribution of Míla Pačová - Krčmářová and Prof. JUDr. Jan Krčmář in the fields of arts The main message of this work is historical reconstruction and recapitulation of distinguished, yet at our times forgotten, contribution of paintress and actress of the National Theatre in Prague Míla Pačová - Krčmářová and of minister of education and national enlightenment in years 1926 and 1934 - 1936, collector and patron in the fields of art Prof. JUDr. Jan Krčmář. First time in the history does this work discover uncommon and various testament of paintress and caricaturist Míla Pačová - Krčmářová (1887 - 1957). It focuses on reconstruction and examining the importance and further impact of her social bonds with the major personalities from the art scene (eg. Ferdinand Engelműller, Míla Pačová - Krčmářová graduated at his school, or Jan Štursa, to whom Míla Pačová - Krčmářová always stood as a muse). Apart from Míla Pačová - Krčmářová this work reconstructs in a similar way the impact of Prof. JUDr. Jan Krčmář 's (1877 - 1950) social bonds in relation to his recurring post as a minister of education and national enlightenment, which stands for the area of culture - creative arts. The work describes Krčmář as passionate art lover, patron, member of many art communities and analyzes in...
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The Depicture of the Middle Ages in the Prokop Chocholoušek's Work
Beneš, Otakar ; Vaněk, Václav (advisor) ; Hošna, Jiří (referee)
The bachelor's essay deals with the historical proses of Prokop Chocholoušek with emphasis on those of the Czech middle ages. The goal has been to find and elaborate on characteristics of the authors work and establish his place in the Czech romantic prose context. The results are posted in several chapters. The essay consists of brief biography of P. Chocholoušek, outline of changes in historical prose during the National Revival and comparison of Prokop Chocholoušek with other historical prose writers. Furthermore, it contains summary of selected texts, analysis of the character-creation patterns, ways of space-time depiction, and patriotism and educational tendencies featured in the work.
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Annual Gifts of the Art Union in Prague during the 2nd half of the 19th Century
Donné, Tereza ; Prahl, Roman (advisor) ; Machalíková, Pavla (referee)
In the beginning my thesis deals with the Kunstvereins, artistic associations which achieved significant development in the first half of the 19th century. It also concerns with the history of Krasoumna jednota (Fine Arts Union) - the first Czech society founded purely for spreading art among general public by means of releasing annual gifts and organizing yearly exhibitions. The work also treats shortly Spolecnost vlasteneckych pratel umeni (Society of Patriotic Friends of the Arts) which initiated the activity of Krasoumna jednota. The text itself analyzes development of graphic techniques used in the annual graphic gifts. It clarifies the significance of the gifts released by the art societies, deals with the selected gifts of the Krasoumna jednota and their inspiration with emphasis on engravers of German origin. In the end the work briefly compares three Czech societies for spreading of art which coexisted at the same time, and their gifts; Krasoumna jednota, Jednota umelcu vytvornych and Umelecka beseda.
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