Discover watercolorist, illustrator, designer Alfons Maria Mucha

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: Mucha, Alfonso
Mucha, Alphons
Mucha, Alphonse

Qualifications: watercolorist, illustrator, designer, pastelist, painter, photographer
gebruikte zijn foto's vooral als voorbeeld voor zijn werk

Nationality/school: Czech

Born: Moravia (hist. region) 1860-07-24/1860-08-24

Deceased: Prague 1939-07-14

This person/entity in other databases

1 hit in RKDimages as artist
35 hits in RKDlibrary as subject

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Active in

Praag 1887 - 1930
ca. 1887 tot 1930
Parijs 1887 - 1930
ca. 1887 tot 1930
Brno 1887 - 1930
ca. 1887 tot 1930
München 1887 - 1930
ca. 1887 tot 1930
New York City 1887 - 1930
ca. 1887 tot 1930
Sarajevo 1887 - 1930
ca. 1887 tot 1930

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Connections with other artists

Teacher of This field mentions the names of pupils. What is at issue are the pupils who were significantly influenced by a teacher as opposed to every student someone ever had. See also the 'Education' field.: Eddy, Henri S.
Influence on This field specifies the artists influenced by the artist in question, without there being question of an educational setting or servile following.: Christiansen, Hans
Palanti, Giuseppe

Subjects This field specifies the various subject categories or genres that constitute the oeuvre of the artist in question. The contents of this field are generally based more on the documentation available at the RKD than on the literature.: figure, genre, history (genre), portrait

Product: poster

Art movement Here we mention the art movement to which an artist belonged. Many art movements have not yet been entered, because the content of this field is still under development.: Jugendstil

Literature

Literature in RKDLibrary: 35 hits in RKDlibrary as subject

Thieme/Becker 1907-1950 , vol. 25, (1931), p. 210 (as: Mucha, Alfons Maria)
Vollmer 1953-1962 , vol. 3, (1956), p. 433 (as: Mucha, Alfons)
Witt Checklist 1978
Saur 1992- , AKLONLINE (as: Mucha, Alfons)
Bénézit 1999

X. Gilles, 'Mucha, peintre et photographe', L'oeil 236 (maart 1975), p. 38-43
Weiermair, Peter: Photographie als Kunst 1879-1979 (tent.cat. 1979) (NFM)
Krichbaum, 1981, p. 137 (NFM)
Köhler, M. / Barche, B.: Das Aktfoto (1985) (NFM)
Ewing, William a.: The Fugitive Gesture. Masterpieces of Dance Photography (1987) (NFM)
P.-L. Mathieu, The Symbolist Generation 1870-1910, Genève/New York 1990, p. 201
Lempertz Auktion 670, Photographie (1991) (NFM)
Misselbeck, R. (Hrsg.): Prestel-Lexikon der Fotografen (2002) (NFM)
Lenman, Robin (ed.): The Oxford Companion to the Photograph (2005) (NFM)

Veiling Parijs, Ader/Picard/Tajan (Nouveau Drouot, salle 3), 26 november 1986

Documentation RKD

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Creation date: 1992-02-01; Last modified date: 2023-05-16

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