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	Alphonse Mucha
		Alphonse Maria Mucha was born in Ivančice, a Moravian town, in 1860.
		Mucha wanted to be useful to his nation and, therefore, as soon as a new building for the Municipal House was built in Prague in the Art Nouveau style, Mucha offered to decorate the interiors without charge as a present to the Czech people.
		Mucha worked on The Slav Epic until the beginning of the World War II, when his project was interrupted by the German invasion of Czechoslovakia (Duane, 1996).
	www.pinknet.cz /~malin/mucha.html (1686 words)

	Alphonse Mucha - Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Alphonse Maria Mucha was born on July 24, 1860 in the town of Ivancice, Moravia (now in the Czech Republic, then part of the Austrian Empire).
		Mucha produced a flurry of paintings, posters, advertisements, and book illustrations, as well as designs for jewellery, carpets, wallpaper, and theatre sets in what came to be known as the Art Nouveau style.
		Mucha visited the USA from 1906 to 1910, then returned to the Czech lands and settled in Prague, where he decorated the Theater of Fine Arts and other landmarks of the city.
	www.artinthepicture.com /artists/Alphonse_Mucha/biography.html (360 words)

	Alphonse Mucha Biography
		Alphonse Mucha with his decorative posters has become a kind of trademark and synonym for the Art Nouveau movement.
		Alfons Maria Mucha was born in Ivancice, a small provincial town in the Czech Republic.
		In December 1894 Mucha became famous with a commission for a poster for the actress Sarah Bernard.
	www.artelino.com /articles/alphonse_mucha.asp (575 words)

	alphonse-mucha (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Alphonse Mucha, whose delicately sensuous style represents the grace of French Art Nouveau, was a Moravian, born in 1860, next to the local jail in the south Moravian town of Ivancice, practically a stone's throw from Vienna, the capital of Austria.
		Mucha was dominated in his youth by the two forces that were the inspiration for his art: religion and nationalism.
		Mucha received his first important commissions from the Count, and for nearly two years worked at his castle, restoring family portraits and decorating the dining room with classically inspired murals.
	www.meaus.com /alphonse-mucha.htm (1463 words)

	Alphonse Mucha \| Biography (1860-1939) Master of Art Nouveau
		Mucha deliberately designed this poster to be as unlike his posters for Sarah as possible - it is a horizontal poster, and whereas Sarah's posters show her alone, this one shows all the characters of the play, including its two stars Lucien Guitry and Jeanne Granier.
		Mucha's greatest involvement with Sarah in a play was in Edmond Rostand's La Princesse Lointaine, which he co-produced with Sarah, as well as designing sets, costumes and an elaborate programme.
		Mucha also designed sets and costumes for Leslie Carter, but as her production of Kassa was a flop she lost her money and never paid him for the work he did.
	www.leninimports.com /alphonse_mucha_4.html (2022 words)

	An Introduction to Art Nouveau and the Work of Alphonse Mucha (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Mucha’s first formal art training took place in Munich (in the mid-1880’s) and from there he moved onto Paris (in 1887), taking further training and trying to support himself as a working artist producing magazine pictures, designs for costumes in operas and ballets, and book illustrations.
		Mucha did, however, manage to survive these lean years on income earned from his art work, none of which at this period was particularly original or remarkable—he was a working artist taking small commissions to support himself as best he could.
		Mucha's portraits of women and girls typically locate them in a design strongly evocative of nature or natural patterning, and there is nothing about them of the high-society decadence which we see, for example, in the work of his contemporary Gustav Klimt.
	www.mala.bc.ca /~johnstoi/praguepage/muchalecture.htm (7724 words)

	Alphonse Mucha Biography
		Alphonse Mucha was born in 1860 in Ivancice, Moravia, which is near the city of Brno in the modern Czech Republic.
		Mucha was an overnight success at the age of 34, after seven years of hard work in Paris.
		Mucha was always a patriot of his Czech homeland and considered his success a triumph for the Czech people as much as for himself.
	www.bpib.com /illustrat/mucha.htm (1277 words)

	Alphonse Marie Mucha (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Alphonse Mucha did not create Art Nouveau, but his work, especially as a poster artist, came to symbolize the full flowering of the style and the era.
		Born in Moravia, in what is now part of Czechoslovakia, Mucha worked as a painter of theatrical signs and court murals in Vienna and studied art in Munich.
		Mucha struggled to make a living as a graphic artist, producing book illustrations, calendar art and other decorative designs, until he received a commission to do a poster for Sarah Bernhardt in "Gismonda." The poster, which appeared on January 1,1895, marked a sharp break with previous poster design.
	www.lib.udel.edu /ud/spec/exhibits/treasures/arts/mucha.html (223 words)

	ArtScope.net: Alphonse Mucha (book review)
		Mucha based each of his decorative panels on a female figure, seductive and gracile, expressive of a season, jewel, time of day, flower, or the arts.
		Mucha's schoolgirl clutches her pencils and tablet, her gaze stern with a child's imperious demand; behind her a weeping woman leans with head in hands, the folk figure of Cechia, symbolic of the Czech nation.
		Wittlich highlights Mucha's decorative panels as attempts to ennoble through art: the embodiment of the artist's intent to illustrate the ideal of the "World Soul," a new thought on the eve of the 20th century, the century which was to cure all man's ills with its science and knowledge.
	www.artscope.net /VAREVIEWS/mucha1105.shtml (1163 words)

	ArtandCulture Artist: Alphonse Mucha (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Mucha's first poster for Bernhardt, in which the actress portrays Gismonda, marked the beginning of their six-year business liason.
		Mucha transformed Bernhardt into a true fantasy figure -- in “Gismonda,” she appears as an otherworldly queen, attired in ornately stylized robes and set off by a jeweled background.
		Mucha spent the later years of his life living in his native Prague while his extensive works continued to appear around the world.
	www.artandculture.com /cgi-bin/WebObjects/ACLive.woa/wa/artist?id=1320 (550 words)

	Art Nouveau and Alphonse Mucha Reference Information and History @ Collectics Antiques & Collectibles
		Alphonse Mucha is synonomous with the aesthetics of the Art Nouveau movement in France at the turn of the century.
		Mucha was not an elitist artist; he allowed his art to be used on a wide variety of functional and decorative objects.
		While Mucha was a pioneer, many artists contributed to the development of the style during this period such as Louis Comfort Tiffany, René Lalique, Emile Galle, and others, ushering in the modern, urban era.
	www.collectics.com /education_mucha.html (1147 words)

	alphonse mucha
		Mucha rose to fame after his creation of "Gismonda", a poster of the legendary actress Sarah Bernhardt.
		Mucha's fame as a major Art Nouveau designer was coupled with his innovative graphic designs.
		Alphonse Mucha created the images featured in this exhibit and his son Jiri Mucha, provided general supervision of the printing of this museum quality lithographic poster.
	www.genesisgallery.com /html/bios/4.html (206 words)

	Worcester Art Museum - Fascinating Facts Relating to Alphonse Mucha
		Alphonse Mucha: Czech artist who helped pioneer the Art Nouveau movement in Paris and America at the turn of the century.
		Mucha became Grand master of the Grand Lodge of Czechoslovakia, and later participated in the constitution of the Supreme Council of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, and eventually became the second Sovereign Grand Commander in his country.
		The Mucha woman beckons to us hypnotically with some inexpressible yet compelling vision that the universe is benevolent, and that happiness is within our reach if only we know how to grasp it.
	www.worcesterart.org /Mucha/facts.html (466 words)

	Alphonse Mucha - The Official Mucha Foundation homepage, Alphonse Mucha Gallery, Mucha Museum in Prague, Alphonse Mucha ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Alphonse Mucha, of the Mucha Museum in Prague, was an Artist in the Art Nouveau, Art Deco, Jugenstil school.
		Alphonse Mucha was born in Ivancice Moravia and Alphonse Mucha designed the Poster Gismonda for Alphonse Mucha's muse Sarah Bernhardt.
		Alphonse Mucha typified the Fin de Siecle, and Alphonse Mucha was friends with Gaugin, Toulouse Lautrec in Pigalle.
	www.muchafoundation.org (231 words)

	Mucha, Alphonse - Poster Gallery
		"Alphonse Maria Mucha is most often remembered for the prominent role he played in shaping the aesthetics of French Art Nouveau at the turn of the century.
		As a struggling and relatively unknown artist of Czech origin living in Paris, Mucha achieved immediate fame when, in December 1894, he accepted a commission to create a poster for one of the greatest actresses of this time, Sarah Bernhardt.
		The success of that first poster Gismonda brought a 6 years contract between Bernhardt and Mucha and in the following years his work for her and others included costumes and stage decorations, designs for magazines and book covers, jewellery and furniture and numerous posters.
	www.yaneff.com /html/artists/mucha.html (232 words)

	Alphonse Mucha Bio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Mucha became one of the most popular and successful of Parisian artists, creating a seemingly endless flow of posters, decorative panels, magazine covers, menus and calendars.
		Mucha put himself at his country's service, designing postage stamps and banknotes and painting the twenty immense canvases that make up the Slav Epic.
		Mucha died in Prague in 1939, shortly after the German invasion of Czechoslovakia.
	www.muchawear.com /id5.html (224 words)

	WELCOME TO MUCHA MUSEUM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		People in Paris were fascinated by his works which were expressed by the beauty of women and depicted in the delicate details of the plants and the preciseness of life, because of this he has gone to America as a hero of Bell Époque.
		Mucha's atelier was the center of Paris' culture at that time period.
		Mucha had many symbolist friends and they had tried experiments of a spiritualistic medium.
	www.mucha-museum.co.jp /welcome/index_e.html (417 words)

	Alphonse Mucha - Art for sale.
		Czech by birth, Alphonse Maria Mucha (1860-1939) came to be the defining force of French Art Nouveau, the sensual and romantic artistic movement that flourished in the late 19th century.
		Both the actress and the public were instantly captivated by Mucha’s lush, sinuous, highly decorative style, and soon “le style Mucha” was sweeping across Europe and the rest of the world.
		Mucha went on to created several other advertisements for Bernhardt, and was also commissioned by the Champenois print shop to produce a wide variety of graphic projects such as posters, calendars, illustrations and postcards, most of them featuring the swirling, extravagant and idealized female forms that made Mucha the most popular artist of his time.
	dart.fine-art.com /artListinginfo.asp?i=108706 (208 words)

	Alfons Maria Mucha (1860-1939) (Czechoslovakian)
		Alfons Mucha was a very influential but seldom mentioned figure in the history of art.
		He is more than anyone else responsible for the "art nouveau" style that developed around the turn of the century and applied his considerable talents to a wide variety of pursuits ranging from painting and sculpture to poster, magazine, and calendar illustration, and product and architectural design.
		Mucha was a careful planner and made extensive studies of his subjects before producing the final result, sometimes using photographs as models (in much the same way was Maxfield Parrish did).
	www.goodart.org /artofam.htm (385 words)

	Alfons Mucha - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Alphonse Maria Mucha was born in the town of Ivančice, Moravia.
		The rising tide of fascism in the late 1930s led to Mucha's works, as well as his Slavic nationalism, being denounced in the press as 'reactionary'.
		When German troops marched into Czechoslovakia in the spring of 1939, Mucha was among the first people to be arrested by the Gestapo.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alphonse_Mucha (676 words)

	Vintage Advertising - Alphonse Marie Mucha Serigraphs
		All of the firm's designs featured the initials LU somewhere, and in this case they are incorporated into the golden arch which protrudes into the picture.
		Mucha settled in Paris and in 1894 created his first poster masterpiece for Sarah Bernhardt for the play Gismonda.
		Mucha took the popular motifs of the day, Japanese and celtic, and added the Byzantine and esoteric lines which were becoming popular with the interest of magic and witchcraft that was overtaking society.
	www.respree.com /pages/serigraphs/alphonse_mucha.html (235 words)

	Alphonse Maria Mucha
		Alphonse Mucha was born in Bohemia (Moravia, in what is now the Czech Republic) in 1860 and moved to Paris in 1890 where he became the star of the poster-art movement under the patronage of Sarah Bernhardt.
		In addition to commercial art, jewellery design, interior decoration, sculpture and stage design, Mucha experimented with lettering and calligraphy to produce excellent source material for unique typefaces.
		Mucha's style is widely considered synonymous with French Art Nouveau and he is one of the most imitated artists and designers of all time.
	freemasonry.bcy.ca /biography/mucha_a/mucha_a.html (128 words)

	Jigsaw puzzles by Alphonse Mucha
		In this four-panel painting, Mucha portrays Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter as women in the flowing and elegant style for which he is famous.
		It was Mucha's elegant posters of Sarah Bernhardt that set him on the path to success as a commercial artist.
		Born in Moravia in 1860, Mucha moved to Paris where he became a leading figure in the art nouveau movement that heralded the turn of the 20th century.
	imaginatorium.org /shop/mucha.htm (541 words)

	Alphonse Mucha
		The best of them was the Czech Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939), another graduate of the Academie Julian, whose first work was in the theatre and who never strayed far from it.
		He formed a commercial love alliance with Sarah Bernhardt, when he designed the poster for the play Gismonda, perhaps the greatest theatre poster ever created - along with Lautrec's Aristide Bruant dans son Cabaret - and thereafter designed all her posters, together with costumes, sets and personal knick knacks.
		But Mucha needed the heady airs of Parisian cosmopolitanism: once he retreated to Bohemia in 1910 and became a Czech nationalist he fizzled out wastefully, rather like Sargent when he took up municipal wall decoration in Boston.
	www.artchive.com /artchive/M/mucha.html (256 words)

	Amazon.com: Mucha's Figures Decoratives: Books: Alphonse Mucha (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Alphonse Mucha — Add Alphonse mucha's art deco style to your home or business as a beautiful marble, ceramic or glass mural.
		This book is a reproduction of Alphonse Mucha's second commissioned portfolio that was published in 1905.
		The bulk of the drawings are, as would be expected with Mucha, of women in various dress or in the nude.
	www.amazon.com /Muchas-Figures-Decoratives-Alphonse-Mucha/dp/048624234X (967 words)

	Alphonse Mucha metal sculpture Art Nouveau
		Description: Alphonse Mucha was born in Bohemia in 1860 and moved to Paris in 1890 where he became the star of the poster-art movement under the patronage of the Sarah Bernhardt.
		This outstanding metal quality sculpture late Art Nouveau 1915 to 1925 is done in the style of Alphonse Mucha´s work, “Girl with feather in her hand “ we include picture of it, Mucha was famous for their art nouveau women.
		The woman is stunning; with exceptionally fine details and beautiful form, in relief on a 1/8 white metal plaque, mainly behind the head in two tiers, increasing a 3D effect.
	www.goantiques.com /detail,alphonse-mucha-metal,496439.html (164 words)

	Alphonse Mucha, Lithograph, Arabian Nights
		Mucha was born in Czechoslovakia and emigrated to Paris when he was twenty-nine years old.
		It was there that he achieved great fame as one of the most important exponents of the art nouveau movement.
		His early prints, in mint condition, are considered valuable today because they are some of the best representational art of his era and because Mucha earned an important place in European art history.
	www.goantiques.com /detail,alphonse-mucha-lithograph,547894.html (166 words)

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