Acta Musealia

Based on the preserved archives sources as well as field research, the article maps the history of the stone sculpture workshop of František Zbořil in Staré Město near Uherské Hradiště. He was provably active between the years 1890 and 1918, after which his son and later his grandson, both of the same names, continued his work. The paper does not focus only on description of the known author’s work, but attempts to demonstrate which works the founder of the workshop was an author of and which were the works of his sons. At the same time it strives, based on the period information, to place the personality of Zbořil the eldest into a wider socio-economic context.

Keywords: Small scale sacral architecture, stone mason, stone sculpture, stone cross, field cross, František Zbořil, Staré Město near Uherské Hradiště, war memorials