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Activity of the "Croatian Home" in Split

The building of the “Croatian Home” in Split is most often talked about as a representative secessionist architectural achievement by Kamilo Tončić, and is most often mentioned in literature dealing with early 20th-century architecture in the city of Split. Although emphasised as such for good reason, the significance of the Home in service of cultural and artistic development is equally important. One of the pivotal events of early Croatian Modernism, the “First Dalmatian Art Exhibition”, took place within the Home ; a space serving several artistic, musical, and sport societies that were active and performing in the national spirit of the time, but also societies that came after. In this paper, the Croatian Hall is, as a stage for cultural events, observed in comparison with similar cultural nexuses of the early 20th century, both in Croatia and abroad, in order to paint a clearer picture of this institution, whose function is situated somewhere between other cultural-artistic establishments, within a niche that is difficult to define.

Croatian Home ; Kamilo Tončić ; secession ; Art Nouveau ; Split ; First Dalmatian artistic exhibition ; cultural and artistic development

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