Mucha’s Dream:
A New Art for a New Nation
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SummaryIn 1790, with the beginning of the National Revival, the Czechs worked to create a Czech state, which required the forming of a national consciousness that did not hitherto exist. The Czech people fashioned this identity using legend and myth and largely by contrasting themselves with their Habsburg rulers of the Austro-Hungarian Empire as Slav rather than German. This caused them to turn rather to Russia for inspiration and to past figures, such as Jan Hus, and events to serve as models for Czech rebellion and independence.
Keywords: Alphonse Maria, Wilhelm Kray, panneaux décoratifs, Sarah Bernhardt, Serfdom in Russia, The Hotel Central, Art Nouveau buildings,St. Vitus cathedral
Keywords: Alphonse Maria, Wilhelm Kray, panneaux décoratifs, Sarah Bernhardt, Serfdom in Russia, The Hotel Central, Art Nouveau buildings,St. Vitus cathedral
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- Alphonse Maria Mucha was born on July 24, 1860 in the small town in Ivan'ice in Southern Moravia.
- Alphonse left at the age of nineteen to become an assistant stage designer for the firm Kautsky-Briochi-Burghardt in Vienna.
- His talent was soon discovered by a local landowner.
- He also worked on illustration for the Scènes et episodes de l'histoire d'Allemagne by the famous historian Charles Seignobos.
- Mucha was quickly in demand, he was signed on to make posters for companies such as Lefèvre-Utile, Nestle, Job cigarette papers, Moët and Chandon.
- Finally, to escape the frivolities of Paris society and in search of funding for his dream of The Slav Epic, Mucha left for America in 1904.
- By 1928 when Mucha finally presented the complete series to the city of Prague, this feeling had intensified.
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