biografía de Alphonse MUCHA (1860-1939)

Lugar de nacimiento: Ivancice, Moravia

Lugar de defunción: Prague

Direcciones: NYC

Profesión: Painter, illustrator, photographer

Estudios: …cole des Beaux-Arts, Prague; Munich Acad.; Paris with Laurens, Boulanger & Lefebvre.

Exposiciones: Paris Salon, 1894 (prize); Paris Expo, 1900 (med.); AIC, 1908

Comentarios: Leading Art Nouveau artist, famous for his posters of Sarah Bernhardt and Job cigarette papers during late 1890s. He settled in Paris in 1890 and returned to Prague, 1910. Though not an American, he was included in the Am. Art Annual because he taught at New York Sch. Applied Design for Women before returning to Prague. His estate collection was given to Bibliothèque Forney, Paris, 1966.