The look of art nouveau is so closely associated with the Czech artist Alphonse Mucha that it has sometimes been called “le ...

Art for everyone': Mucha's masterpiece to find home in Prague, 100 years on A new Prague museum dedicated to the Czech Art Nouveau painter Alfons Mucha will offer "art for everyone" when it opens ...

The assignment fell to Czech artist Alphonse Mucha (1860–1939), and it not only jump-started his career and a six-year partnership between the two—it helped establish him as one of the ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Alphonse Mucha won overnight fame in Belle Époque Paris on New Year’s Day 1895, when one of his sinuous ...

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Mucha examined life closely, intensely. He was, artist Charles Matlack Price observed, “the most perfect and painstaking draftsman.” Mucha was a close observer of the world, drawing out the ...

Mucha, who had begun to make money as an illustrator, invited the older artist to share his studio. Gauguin, never one to turn down a freebie, took up the invitation. Unlike many of Gauguin’s ...

When Bernhardt, unhappy with the play’s promotional material, reached Mucha, he was a relatively low-ranking illustrator and were it not for the fact that all the other artists were off for the ...

His numerous copyists proudly billed their work as “le Style Mucha,” a synonym for Art Nouveau—that sexually suggestive organic style that, upending Victorian prudishness, dominated Western ...

It will also provide a long-sought home for Mucha's grand Slav Epic cycle. British-born Marcus Mucha, who heads a foundation managing the artist's legacy, told AFP that the museum would offer "art ...