PARIS — Through his early and spectacular success as the preeminent Art Nouveau graphic artist, a psychic burden was foisted upon the Bohemian artist Alphonse Mucha. The tragic double-edged sword of ...

Discover which Mucha museum you should visit while traveling, comparing collections, highlights, and experiences from Prague ...

Organic, sinuous lines, with vines snaking around stylized letters, ethereal women with flowing tresses, and botanical borders characterize the style of Art Nouveau, the enduringly popular movement ...

Alphonse Mucha’s body of work is full of contradictions. He is most often identified with late 19th-century Paris, but was in fact Moravian (Czech). His vision for the purpose of art was for the ...

The legacy of the prolific Czech Art Nouveau artist Alphonse Mucha will soon be given an elevated status in central Prague with the opening of a new dedicated museum. The institution, a collaboration ...

Czech Art Nouveau painter Alphonse Mucha’s magnum opus, the Slav Epic, is again the subject of legal disputes in the face of a proposed two-year tour of museums in Japan, China, and potentially South ...

Stefanie Kohn, curator at the National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library in Cedar Rapids, hangs artwork in the Petrik Gallery for the exhibit “Alphonse Mucha: Master of Art Nouveau” on April 30, 2024.

Alphonse Mucha was one of the central figures in the Art Nouveau movement. While our world of AI-generated images and hyper-efficient processes may feel far removed from Mucha’s life in Paris at the ...

A major legal battle looms over Alphonse Mucha’s monumental Slav Epic. The gigantic canvas cycle, which took the Czech-born Art Nouveau pioneer 18 years to complete, is due to go on a controversial ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Alphonse Mucha won overnight fame in Belle Époque Paris on New Year’s Day 1895, when one of his sinuous, pastel ...