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Alphonse Mucha
Alfons Maria Mucha, known in English as Alphonse Mucha, was a Czech painter, illustrator, and graphic artist. Living in Paris during the Art Nouveau period, he was widely known for his distinctly stylised and decorative theatrical posters, particularly those of Sarah Bernhardt. He produced illustrations, advertisements, decorative panels, as well as designs, which became among the best-known image…
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culture · Czech painter, illustrator and graphic artist (1860–1939) · poster artist · lithographer · photographer · graphic designer · painter · postage stamp designer · designer · illustrator · graphic artist · teacher · also Alphonse Mucha, Alfons Mucha, A. M. Mucha, Alfonse Maria Mucha, Alphons Mucha, Alphonse Maria Mucha
Born 24 July 1860 · Died 14 July 1939 · Q146691
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2026· 1 entry
2025· 2 entries
Artnet: Alphonse Mucha Helped Define Art Nouveau. A New Show Explores His Lasting Influence
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It was decided the loan to Moravský Krumlov would be extended for five years until 2031
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2024· 3 entries
Artnet: The Spirit of Art Nouveau Awakens in Australia’s Biggest Alphonse Mucha Exhibition
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Yahoo News Australia: Alphonse Mucha and Art Nouveau: 100 years after its creation, his work is still a balm for a world in upheaval
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Time Out: Alphonse Mucha: Spirit of Art Nouveau
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2021· 1 entry
It was announced that a new, permanent home would be found for the paintings in central Prague, to be completed in 2026
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2019· 1 entry
Hyperallergic: How Alphonse Mucha’s Smoking Designs Made Art Nouveau
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2013· 1 entry
Untapped Cities: Alphonse Mucha’s Jewelry Shop at the Musée Carnavalet
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2012· 2 entries
Smithsonian Magazine: How Alphonse Mucha Designed the Nation State of Czechoslovakia
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The series was put on display at the National Gallery Prague's Trade Fair Palace
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1948· 1 entry
But his early versions in small format exist
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1939· 1 entry
Died 1939-07-14.
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1936· 1 entry
A major retrospective was held in Paris at the Jeu de Paume (museum), with 139 works, including three canvases from The Slav Epic
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1928· 2 entries
On the 10th anniversary of the independence of Czechoslovakia, he presented the series to the Czech nation
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In time for the tenth anniversary of the proclamation of the Czechoslovak Republic
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1923· 1 entry
And a replaced by a more traditional shop design
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1918· 1 entry
Designed the Czechoslovak koruna bank note, with the image of Slavia, the daughter of his U
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1914· 1 entry
And 1949 to the Carnavalet Museum in Paris, where it can be seen today
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1911· 1 entry
And Mucha was able to devote his attention to what he considered his most important work; The Slav Epic, a series of large paintings illustrating the achievements of the Slavic peoples over history
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1910· 1 entry
Moved to Prague, to start his project of the decoration of the reception room of the city's mayor in the Municipal House
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1909· 1 entry
Had been offered a commission to paint murals on the interior of the new city hall of Prague
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1908· 2 entries
And 1909, and in February 1910, Charles Crane agreed to fund the project
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Undertook one large decoration project, for the interior of the German Theatre of New York; he produced three large allegorical murals, in the Art Nouveau style, representing 'Tragedy', 'Comedy', and 'Truth'
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1906· 1 entry
To design boxes and a store display for Savon Mucha, a soap bar
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1901· 1 entry
Just as tastes were beginning to change, moving away from Art Nouveau to more naturalistic patterns
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1899· 1 entry
Collaborated with the jeweller Georges Fouquet to make a bracelet for Sarah Bernhardt in the form of a serpent, made of gold and enamel, similar to the costume jewellery Bernhardt had worn in Medea
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1897· 2 entries
Produced an individual decorative panel of a young woman in a floral setting, called Rêverie, for Champenois
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Called Art et Decoration, which played an early and important role in publicising the Art Nouveau style
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1896· 1 entry
And then, in 1897, to have a major retrospective in the same gallery showing 448 works
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1895· 1 entry
And 1896, and gave Mucha a six-year contract to produce more
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1890· 1 entry
And 1891, he began providing illustrations for the weekly magazine La Vie populaire, which published novels in weekly segments
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1888· 1 entry
Where he enrolled in the Académie Julian and the following year, 1889, Académie Colarossi
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1887· 1 entry
Studied at Academy of Fine Arts, Munich (1884–1887).
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1886· 1 entry
Received a notable commission for a painting of the Czech patron saints Cyril and Methodius from a group of Czech emigrants, including some of his relatives, who had founded a Roman Catholic church in the town of Pise
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1881· 2 entries
Almost without funds, he took a train as far north as his money would take him
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Destroyed the Ringtheater, the major client of his firm
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1880· 1 entry
At the age of 19, he travelled to Vienna, the political and cultural capital of the Empire, and found employment as an apprentice scenery painter for a company that made sets for Vienna theatres
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1878· 2 entries
By the Treaty of Berlin, had been taken away from Turkey and put under the tutorship of Austria
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Applied to the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, but was rejected and advised to "find a different career"
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1860· 1 entry
Born 1860-07-24.
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