Alphonse Mucha and artworks
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Alphonse Mucha and artworks - Patrick Bade
Photographic portrait of Alphonse Mucha
Biography
1860:
Alphonse Mucha is born on 24 July in Ivancice, Moravia, a province of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He is the son of a court usher and is brought up in keeping with the virtues of nationalism. He begins to draw at a young age.
1871:
Mucha is a chorister at St Peter’s Cathedral in Brno, where he receives his secondary school education. It is there that he has his first revelation, in front of the richness of Baroque art. During the four years of studying there, he forms a friendship with Leoš Janácek who would become the greatest Czech composer of his generation.
1877:
He fails to enter the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague.
1879:
Mucha finds work as an auxiliary in a firm of theatre designers in Vienna.
1881:
Following a fire which ravages the Ringtheater (the main client of the firm where he works), Mucha is dismissed from his job as a designer. He settles in the small town of Mikulov where he draws portraits. There he meets his first patron, Count Khuen, who invites him to decorate his castle with painted murals.
1884:
Mucha studies art in Munich whilst carrying out work for Count Egon, brother of Count Khuen, in