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Alphonse Mucha

1860 - 1939

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Alfons Maria Mucha (Czech: [ˈalfons ˈmuxa] ; 24 July 1860 – 14 July 1939), 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 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alphonse Mucha is the 42nd most popular painter (up from 63rd in 2019), the 13th most popular biography from Czechia (up from 16th in 2019) and the most popular Czech Painter.

Alphonse Mucha is most famous for his art nouveau posters, which are considered to be among the most beautiful in the world.

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Among painters, Alphonse Mucha ranks 42 out of 2,023. Before him are Jan van Eyck, Edgar Degas, Masaccio, Jacques-Louis David, Tintoretto, and Gustave Courbet. After him are Paolo Veronese, Nicolas Poussin, Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Caspar David Friedrich, and Anthony van Dyck.

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Among people born in 1860, Alphonse Mucha ranks 3. Before him are Gustav Mahler, and Anton Chekhov. After him are Klara Hitler, Theodor Herzl, Eduard Buchner, Raymond Poincaré, Willem Einthoven, Isaac Albéniz, William Jennings Bryan, Niels Ryberg Finsen, and Kanō Jigorō. Among people deceased in 1939, Alphonse Mucha ranks 3. Before him are Sigmund Freud, and Pope Pius XI. After him are Howard Carter, Nadezhda Krupskaya, Joseph Roth, W. B. Yeats, Eugen Bleuler, S. P. L. Sørensen, Ghazi of Iraq, Harvey Cushing, and Philipp Scheidemann.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Alphonse Mucha ranks 13 out of 1,200. Before him are Jan Hus (1369), John Amos Comenius (1592), Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor (1316), Bedřich Smetana (1824), Milan Kundera (1929), and Oskar Schindler (1908). After him are Václav Havel (1936), Rainer Maria Rilke (1875), Edmund Husserl (1859), Jan Žižka (1360), Bertha von Suttner (1843), and Kurt Gödel (1906).

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Among PAINTERS In Czechia

Among painters born in Czechia, Alphonse Mucha ranks 1. After him are Anton Raphael Mengs (1728), František Kupka (1871), Wenceslaus Hollar (1607), Anna Chromý (1940), Emil Orlík (1870), Georg Flegel (1566), Toyen (1902), Gabriel von Max (1840), Zdeněk Burian (1905), Mikoláš Aleš (1852), and Petr Brandl (1668).

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