It began its career as an autodidact. Because it was rejected by the Prager academy, it visited a school for stage decoration in Vienna from 1879 to 1881 and visited an indication class besides in the evening. It received some small orders for decorative painting and studied from 1885 to 1887 at the academy of the forming arts in Munich. On the occasion of the world exhibition it pulled to Mucha from Munich to Paris, at this time the Mekka of the arts, where it lived in modest conditions. It took instruction with different teachers. With small orders for book illustrations it could hold itself over water. It had a common Studio with Paul Gauguin for short time.

However Sarah Bernhardt, which most well-known western actress of the turn of the century, provided the break-through for it, which was Christmas 1894 on the search for an artist, who should sketch a meeting poster for the play "“Gismonda"”, since its usual contractors failed. Mucha got the order and in such a way hung over night its posters everywhere in Paris and should it world well-known make. They were desired so that nearly everything from art friends was removed, and left it to one of the most in demand poster painters bark Epoque to become. 1901 it became the knight of the French Ehrenlegion. One year after it travels with the French sculptor Auguste Rodin after 1904 went to Mucha for two years into the USA, welcomely been called and celebrated with a multilateral special supplement the New York Time, and taught there as a lecturer at the academies for screen end of arts in New York, Philadelphia and Chicago. 1906 he married Marie

After the First World War its success shrank. Mucha went back into Czechoslovakia, where he was further artistically active. Thus it e.g. sketched. Stamps, notes and medals for the recent Czechoslovakian state. On behalf an American millionaire Mucha created a cycle of 20 monumental paintings in 18 years; a monumental Epos over the history of the slawischen peoples. Under the title of Slawi Epos the pictures are to be admired this very day. Financially independently, he lived with his wife and his two children on a lock north of Prague.

Mucha was one first, which was arrested and interned after the invasion of the German troops 1939; it died shortly thereafter.

Exhibitions

The Mucha museum Prague is dedicated to the life and work of the famosen, world-well-known representative of art nouveau. It is in the building of baroque of the Kaunitz palace in the historical core of Prague.

Its Hauptwerk "“the Slawi Epos"” is to be visited in the lock Krumlov (German Kromau) in the proximity of its place of birth Ivancice, however starting from 2006 in Prague is issued.

Literature

• Dring (Hrsg.): Alfons Mucha - triumph of art nouveau, Braus, Heidelberg, 1997, ISBN 3-89466-195-X
• Jiri Mucha: Alfons Mucha, an artist life, Verl. People & world, Berlin, 1986, ISBN 3-353-00015-1
• Renate Ulmer: Alfons Mucha. Prelude to kind nouveau, bags, Cologne, 1993, ISBN 3-8228-9613-6
• Sarah Mucha: Alfons Mucha (to the cause of the establishment of the Mucha - museum in Prague), Belser publishing house, Stuttgart, 2000, ISBN 3-7630-2382-8
• Arthur Ellridge: Mucha, comet, impudent one, 2001, ISBN 3-8983-6194-2

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• Mucha museum Prague

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