Alfons Mucha & 5122 Mucha Asteroid, Prague, Czech Republic
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N 50° 05.351 E 014° 24.029
33U E 457113 N 5548718
Alfons Maria Mucha (Ivancice, 24 July 1860 – Prague, 14 July 1939), was a Czech Art Nouveau painter and decorative artist.
Waymark Code: WMJETF
Location: Hlavní město Praha, Czechia
Date Posted: 11/09/2013
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Alfons Maria Mucha, often known in English and French as Alphonse Mucha, was a Czech Art Nouveau painter and decorative artist, known best for his distinct style. He produced many paintings, illustrations, advertisements, postcards, and designs.
Mucha produced a flurry of paintings, posters, advertisements, and book illustrations, as well as designs for jewelry, carpets, wallpaper, and theatre sets in what was termed initially The Mucha Style but became known as Art Nouveau (French for "new art").
Mucha spent many years working on what he considered his life's fine art masterpiece, The Slav Epic (Slovanská epopej), a series of twenty huge paintings depicting the history of the Czech and the Slavic people in general, bestowed to the city of Prague in 1928. He had wanted to complete a series such as this, a celebration of Slavic history, since he was young. From 1963 until 2012 the series was on display in the chateau in Moravský Krumlov the South Moravian Region in the Czech Republic. Since 2012 the series has been on display at the National Gallery's Veletržní Palace.
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CZ: Zde žil v letech 1911-1924 ceský malír a grafik Alfons Mucha
EN: Czech painter and graphic artist Alfons Mucha lived here from in 1911-1924
5122 Mucha Asteroid is a main-belt asteroid.
Discovered by: A. Mrkos
Date of discovery: 3. 1. 1989
Place of discovery: Klet Observatory