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  2. Mucha Museum - Wikipedia

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    The Mucha museum was founded by Sebastian Pawlowski, a Swiss entrepreneur who had bought and renovated Kounice Palace . He approached John Mucha with the idea for a gallery of Mucha works. [1] The museum was opened in February 1998 by the Muchovo Muzeum s.r.o, a Czech company, containing works from the Mucha Trust Collection.

  3. Alphonse Mucha - Wikipedia

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    Alfons Maria Mucha [1] [2] (Czech: [ˈalfons ˈmuxa] ⓘ; 24 July 1860 – 14 July 1939), [3] known internationally 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 stylized and decorative theatrical posters, particularly those of Sarah ...

  4. Czech architecture - Wikipedia

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    Typical are Art Nouveau buildings, especially as private villas, hotels or public buildings (town hall, schools, crematoria), as well as several churches or castle buildings. Municipal House. The most important Czech architects of this period are Antonín Balšánek, Osvald Polívka, Josef Fanta, Jan Letzel, Alfons Mucha.

  5. The Slav Epic - Wikipedia

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    Alphonse Mucha working on the cycle in 1920. Mucha's The Slav Epic in the National Gallery of Prague. The Slav Epic (Czech: Slovanská epopej) is a cycle of 20 large canvases painted by Czech Art Nouveau painter Alphonse Mucha between 1910 and 1928. The cycle depicts the mythology and history of Czechs and other Slavic peoples.

  6. Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague - Wikipedia

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    In 1868, in cooperation with the Vienna museum, the Prague Chamber of Trade and Commerce held an exhibition on Žofín Island of objects obtained from the Exposition Universelle d'Art et d'Industrie de 1867—International Exposition (1867)—supplemented by historical arts and crafts mostly from the collection of Vojtěch Lanna, who became the ...

  7. Czech art - Wikipedia

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    The artwork is facing the Prague Castle, residence of the President. A notable incidence of the contemporary Czech art scene was the work unveiled to commemorate the Czech presidency of the EU in 2009, Entropa by David Černý. The work explores European integration by presenting national stereotypes associated with each member state of the EU ...