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Alfons Mucha
born July 24, 1860 in the small Moravian town of
Ivančice (today in the Czech Republic), is
one of the best-known artist of the international
Art Nouveau movement. Mucha is known not only for
his posters (especially those created in Paris for
Sarah Bernhardt from 1894 on, the best known of
which is "Gismonda"), or the so-called
"panneaux décoratifs", but also for a
tremendous amount of advertising illustration (for
example, "Job" and "Bieres de la
Meuse"). But in spite of his wide-spread
fame, very few people know that, starting in 1918,
Mucha also designed stamps for his native country,
the newly-founded state of Czechoslovakia.
Mucha received many commissions for works of art
from the new national state of the Czechs and
Slovaks. Among many others examples, he decorated
the Lord Mayor's Hall and the windows of the
Bishop's Chapel of the St. Vites Dome in Prague
(1931). Alfons Mucha died on July 14, 1939 in
Prague.
Batz, Gerhard: Lexikon tschechischer und slowakischer Briefmarkenkuenstler, 2002
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