Alphonse Mucha

1860–1939 · Symbolism

Alfons Maria Mucha, known in English as Alphonse Mucha, was a Czech painter, illustrator, and graphic artist. Living in Paris during the Art Nouveau period, he was widely known for his distinctly stylised and decorative theatrical posters, particularly those of Sarah Bernhardt. He produced illustrations, advertisements, decorative panels, as well as designs, which became among the best-known images of the period.

40 paintings

• The Enchantress
• Woman With a Burning Candle (1933)
• Self-portrait (1907) (1907)
• Portrait of Mucha's Daughter, Jaroslava (1931)
• Fate (1920)
• Advertisement for Job cigarettes. (1896)
• Self-portrait (1899) (1899)
• Madonna of the Lilies (1905)
• Song of Bohemia (1918)
• France Embraces Bohemia (1919)
• Self-portrait, sketching in his apartment, Paris (1889)
• Study for Woman in the Wilderness (1923)
• Girl with loose hair and tulips (1920)
• The Light of Hope (1933)
• Portrait of Hanna Vitousek (1912)
• Maude Adams (1872–1953) as Joan of Arc (1909)
• Gismonda (1894)
• Zodiac (1896)
• Rêveur (1897)
• Portrait of Josephine Crane-Bradley as Slavia (1908)
• Slavs in their Original Homeland (1912)
• The Celebration of Svantovit in Rujana (1912)
• The Introduction of Slavonic Liturgy (1912)
• The Bulgarian Tsar Simeon (1923)
• The Bohemian King Přemysl Otakar II (1923)
• The coronation of the Serbian Tsar Stefan Dušan as East Roman Emperor (1926)
• Jan Milíč of Kroměříž (1916)
• Master Jan Hus Preaching at the Bethlehem Chapel (1916)
• The Meeting at Křížky (1916)
• After the Battle of Grunwald (1924)
• After the Battle of Vítkov Hill (1923)
• Petr Chelčický at Vodňany (1918)
• The Hussite King Jiří of Poděbrady (1923)
• Defense of Sziget Against the Turks (1916)
• The Printing of the Bible of Kralice in Ivančice (1914)
• The Last days of Jan Amos Komenský in Naarden (1918)
• Holy Mount Athos (1926)
• The Oath of Omladina Under the Slavic Linden Tree (1926)
• The Abolition of Serfdom in Russia (1914)
• Apotheosis of the Slavs (1928)