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Alfons Maria Mucha [1] [2] (Czech: [ˈalfons ˈmuxa] ⓘ; 24 July 1860 – 14 July 1939), [3] known internationally 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 stylized and decorative theatrical posters, particularly those of Sarah ...
Fine arts influences included Alphonse Mucha, and the Art Deco and Art Nouveau movements. [2] She attended Martin Van Buren High School in Queens (graduating at age 16 in 1959), [2] where she started a comic strip for the school newspaper, which has been continued by different students to this day. [2]
Geraldine Thomson Mucha (5 July 1917 – 12 October 2012) was a Scottish composer. [1] [2] She was born in London and studied at the Royal Academy of Music. She married the Czech writer Jiří Mucha, son of the painter Alphonse Mucha, and in 1945 moved to Prague. She lived there for the greater part of the next sixty years. [3]
Sebastian Pawlowski, director of the Mucha Museum stated that he would not be moving location, and the Savarin Palace location was a separate project. When asked if he had the right to continue using the name, he stated "it is probably for the new place in Palace Savarin to wonder if it has the right to call itself the same as the original". [ 4 ]
His second wife was Geraldine Thomson-Mucha (1917–2012), a Scottish born composer who lived in Prague until her death on 12 October 2012. Mucha had two children: a son, John, now President of the Mucha Foundation, with his wife Geraldine, and a daughter, Jarmila Plocková, [5] with Vlasta Plocková. Painter Jaroslava Muchová was his sister.
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Alphonse Mucha working on the cycle in 1920. Mucha's The Slav Epic in the National Gallery of Prague. The Slav Epic (Czech: Slovanská epopej) is a cycle of 20 large canvases painted by Czech Art Nouveau painter Alphonse Mucha between 1910 and 1928. The cycle depicts the mythology and history of Czechs and other Slavic peoples.
Sarah Bernhardt (French: [saʁa bɛʁnɑʁt]; [note 1] born Henriette-Rosine Bernard; 22 October 1844 – 26 March 1923) was a French stage actress who starred in some of the most popular French plays of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including La Dame aux Camélias by Alexandre Dumas fils, Ruy Blas by Victor Hugo, Fédora and La Tosca by Victorien Sardou, and L'Aiglon by Edmond Rostand.