Short Biography

Alphonse Mucha

Native name: Alfons Mucha

Birth name: Alfons Maria Mucha

Also known as: Alfons Mucha, A. M. Mucha, Alfonse Maria Mucha, Alphons Mucha, Alphonse Maria Mucha, Alfons Marie Mucha, Alphonse Marie Mucha, Alfons Mukha, Alfonso Mucha, Mucha, mucha alfons

Place of birth:

Ivančice Show on Google Maps

Birth date:

1860-07-24 • Birth Sign: Leo

Citizenship:

Austrian Empire, Austria–Hungary, First Czechoslovak Republic, Second Czechoslovak Republic, Nazi Germany, Czechoslovakia

Death date:

1939-07-14 (78 years old)

Short Bio:

Alfons Maria Mucha (; 24 July 1860 – 14 July 1939), 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 images of the period.

In the second part of his career, at the age of 57, he returned to his homeland and devoted himself to a series of twenty monumental symbolist canvases known as The Slav Epic, depicting the history of all the Slavic peoples of the world, which he painted between 1912 and 1926. In 1928, on the 10th anniversary of the independence of Czechoslovakia, he presented the series to the Czech nation. He considered it his most important work.

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