Prague and Alfons Mucha’s grandson end dispute over Slav Epic

In a momentous turn of events, the City of Prague and the descendants of the renowned Art Nouveau painter Alfons Mucha have successfully reached an agreement regarding the ownership rights of Mucha’s celebrated masterpiece, the Slav Epic. This historic resolution marks a significant step towards preserving an invaluable piece of cultural and historical heritage, ensuring…

Bologna exhibit

Alfons Mucha exhibition at Palau Martorell, Barcelona, until October 15th

From July 5 to October 15, the exhibition dedicated to the Czech artist Alphonse Mucha (Ivančice, Czech Republic 1860 – Prague, Czech Republic, 1939), one of the greatest exponents of art nouveau, can be visited at the Palau Martorell in Barcelona. Alfons Mucha was a Czech painter and decorative artist who became one of the…

beautiful mucha painting

Who was Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939)?

During his life Alphonse Mucha was an interior designer and decorator, graphic designer, illustrator and painter, both from poster and paintings. Born in Moravia (Czech Republic, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire), he was the son of a bailiff. His father wanted to make him his successor, but his love for drawing since childhood was be…

shangai

Alphonse Mucha exhibition in China – In Shangai until July 21

The exhibition “Czech Treasure Art Nouveau Maestro: Aphonse Mucha Retrospective” in Pearl Art Museum, Shangai, is the first major one taking place in China. It features over 200 artworks from the collection, including posters, drawings, decorative works, jewelry and sculpture as well as books and photographs, some of which have never been shown in public…

Alphonse Mucha exhibition – in Paris, until January 27, 2019

These days you can visit the first exhibition dedicated to Alphonse Mucha in Paris since his retrospective at the Grand Palais in 1980. Discover or re-discover this exceptional Czech artist in a show on display in the Musée Luxembourg of the French Capital until the 27th of January. A true icon of the Belle Epoque, Mucha represents the…

Bologna exhibit

Alphonse Mucha in Bologna – from Sept. 29 until January 20

From tomorrow September 29 2018 Bologna will host (for the first time) an important retrospective on the work of Alphonse Mucha. Until 20 January 2019 the halls of Palazzo Pallavicini will display 80 of the most famous works by the Czech artist, including 27 exhibited for the first time in Italy. An interesting Alphonse Mucha’s…

2 of 20 Mucha’s Slav Epic works return to Prague to be checked over

Two sets of paintings of the Slav Epic series by Czech Art-Nouveau artist Alfons Mucha (1860-1939) have just returned to Prague from Tokyo, where they have been seen by 662,000 people in an exhibit that lasted from March 8th to June 5th 2017. Before traveling again, the works will be examined and checked over to see…