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Alphonse was the eldest of six children, all with names starting with "A". [9] Alphonse showed an early talent for drawing; a local merchant impressed by his work gave him a gift of paper, at the time a luxury item. [8] In the preschool period, he drew exclusively with his left hand. He had a talent for music: he was an alto singer and violin ...
Due to the success of the 1896 series, Champenois asked Mucha to design two more sets based on the seasonal theme in 1897 and 1900. [1] [11] Designs for another two sets also exist. [1] The 1897 series of color lithographs on paper featured 15 by 43 centimetres (5.9 in × 16.9 in) panels and is located at the Art Institute of Chicago. [12]
Alphonse Mucha (1860–1939), born in Moravia in what is now the Czech Republic, trained as a painter in Munich for two years and then moved to Paris in 1887, where he struggled to survive. His moment came in December 1894, when he was asked, on very short notice, to create a poster for a new play, Gismonda , starring Sarah Bernhardt .
For his second creation, La femme brune, Mucha was inspired by a fresco by Michelangelo in the Sistine Chapel. The exuberant hair, typical of Mucha, remained, as did numerous allusions to the JOB brand, from the brooch to the cigarette-paper case and even the background as wallpaper. A third poster by Mucha remained in the draft stage. [39]
The Slav Epic 1930 exhibition poster. Alphonse Mucha spent many years working on The Slav Epic cycle, which he considered his life's masterwork. He had dreamed of completing such a series, a celebration of Slavic history, since the turn of the 20th century; however, his plans were limited by financial constraints.
The Mucha museum was founded by Sebastian Pawlowski, a Swiss entrepreneur who had bought and renovated Kounice Palace . He approached John Mucha with the idea for a gallery of Mucha works. [ 1 ] The museum was opened in February 1998 by the Muchovo Muzeum s.r.o, a Czech company, containing works from the Mucha Trust Collection.
This is a truncated, illustrated list of works by Alphonse Maria Mucha, and shows few examples of the many iconic images for which he is famous. The list does not include all of Mucha's 1910-1928 series The Slav Epic.
English: A series of “four seasons” by Alfons Mucha (but not his first series created in 1896); cropped print of four panels each depicting one of the four seasons personified by a woman, originally printed in circa 1897, and made into the “Chocolat Masson” and “Chocolat Mexican” Calendar of 1897.