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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 ...
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.
Death Records [1] is a San Francisco-based Lo-Fi/Outsider Pop record label. Founded by Brian Wakefield & Colin Arlen in 2014, the label was created to "Represent the 'misfits of this city' who have been left behind to fend for themselves". The label has started an annual festival, Deathstock, to celebrate the labels "birthday". [2]
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.
Jaroslava Muchová in a sketch by her father, Alphonse Mucha, c. 1920s Jaroslava Muchová, by Alphonse Mucha Jaroslava Muchová Syllabová (15 March 1909 – 9 November 1986 [ 1 ] ) was a Czech painter, the daughter of painter Alphonse Mucha and the sister of writer and translator Jiří Mucha .
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.