Home | The Noguchi Museum. Alphonse Mucha Biography. Alphonse Mucha was born in 1860 in Ivancice, Moravia, which is near the city of Brno in the modern Czech Republic. It was a small town, and for all intents and purposes life was closer to the 18th than the 19th century. Though Mucha is supposed to have started drawing before he was walking, his early years were spent as a choirboy and amateur musician. It wasn't until he finished high school (needing two extra years to accomplish that onerous task) that he came to realize that living people were responsible for some of the art he admired in the local churches. That epiphany made him determined to become a painter, despite his father's efforts in securing him "respectable" employment as a clerk in the local court. Like every aspiring artist of the day, Mucha ended up in Paris in 1887.
He was a little older than many of his fellows, but he had come further in both distance and time. A chance encounter in Moravia had provided him with a patron who was willing to fund his studies. Alphonse Mucha Posters. In 1860 Alphonse Maria Mucha was born in the countryside of Moravia. But it was in Paris where he eventually became prosperous in his companionship with Sarah Bernhardt, producing posters for her plays.
Making a number of artworks for posters, panels and magazines, labels and even menus. He moved to America in 1904. There he instructed in various art schools and also taking on other assignments. In 1910, after World War 1, Alphonse Mucha went back to Prague where he was assigned to such honorable tasks as designing stamps and even bank bills. The beautiful curving lines and pastel tinted colors with its detailed and decorative motifs. Art Nouveau created a fresh style to the world of posters and home decoration. Art Nouveau aims to beautify all aspects of life.
More on Mucha Alphonse Mucha Posters was a major part of the Art Nouveau movement. Mucha kept on producing Art Nouveau Posters in this way of having either four or two images within a similar theme. Littlesweets. Poster. REMEDIOS.jpg (755×661) LEE BAKER :: Refractive Monolith. Lee Baker - Refractive Monolith.