Alphonse Mucha and artworks E-Book

Patrick Bade

• Herausgeber: Parkstone International
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 53

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2023

Beschreibung

Born in 1860 in a small Czech town, Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939) was an artist on the forefront of Art Nouveau, the modernist movement that swept Paris in the 1910s, marking a return to the simplicity of natural forms, and changing the world of art and design forever. In fact, Art Nouveau was known to insiders as the “Mucha style” for the legions of imitators who adapted the master’s celebrated tableaux. Today, his distinctive depictions of lithe young women in classical dress have become a pop cultural touchstone, inspiring album covers, comic books, and everything in between. Patrick Bade and Victoria Charles offer readers an inspiring survey of Mucha’s career, illustrated with over one hundred lustrous images, from early Parisian advertisements and posters for Sandra Bernhardt, to the famous historical murals painted just before his death, at the age of 78, in 1939.

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Patrick Bade

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ISBN: 978-1-78160-979-8

Contents

BIOGRAPHY

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

I. Blessed Are the Meek: For They Shall Inherit the Earth, 1906

II. Blessed Are the Pure of Heart: For They Shall See God, 1906

III. Blessed Are They That Mourn: For They Shall Be Comforted, 1906

IV. Blessed Are the Merciful: For They Shall Obtain Mercy, 1906

V. Blessed Are They That Are Persecuted for Righteousness’ Sake: For Theirs Is the Kingdom of Heaven, 1906

VI. Blessed Are the Poor in Spirit: For Theirs Is the Kingdom of Heaven, 1906

A

Amen, Extract fromLe Pater, 1899

B

Banknote of Czechoslovakia: 10 Crown, Designed by Mucha, 1920

Banknote of Czechoslovakia: 50 Crown, Designed by Mucha, 1929

Biscuits Champagne Lefèvre-Utile, 1896

Bosnian Pavilion Restaurant at the Paris Exhibition of 1900: menu design, 1900

Burr McIntosh Monthly, December 1907

Byzantine Heads: Blond, 1897

Byzantine Heads: Brunette, 1897

C

Cover for ‘Chansons d’aïeules’, 1897

Cover of ‘Au Quartier Latin’, 1900

Cover of ‘Cocorico’, December 1898

Cover of ‘Cocorico’, February 1899

Cover of ‘L’Habitation pratique’ (April 1910), 1903

D

Decorative plate with symbol of the Paris International Exhibition of 1897, 1897

Design for a Month: February, 1899

Design for June cover, 1899

Design for the poster for the Mucha Exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum, New York, January – February 1921, 1920

E

Exposition Universelle & Internationale de St Louis (États-Unis), 1903

F

Feather, 1899

Flower, 1897

Friendship, 1904

Fruit, 1897

G

Girl in a Grainfield with Field Flowers, 1897-1900

H

‘Hearst’s International’, cover for December 1921, 1921

‘Hearst’s International’, cover for January 1922, 1921

Hamlet, 1899

Head of a Girl, Statue for the stand of the Hubigant Perfumery at the Paris Exhibition of 1900, 1900

Heather from Coastal Cliffs, 1902

I

Imprimerie Cassan Fils, 1896

Ivy, 1901

J

Jos. Triner’s Angelica Bitter Tonic, 1907

L

La Dame aux Camélias, 1896

La Nature, 1899-1900

La Passion, 1904

La Plume, 1897

Language of Flowers, c. 1900

Laurel, 1901

Le Pater, Cover of an illustrated book, 1899

Leslie Carter, 1908

M

Maude Adams as Joan of Arc, 1909

N

Native American Woman with Flowers and Feathers, 1905

Nude in a Decorative Frame, Drawing forDocuments décoratifs, board 10, 1902

Nymphette on a Rock, Poster forDocuments décoratifs, plate 5, 1902

O

Official Banquet of the Paris Exhibition of 1900: menu design featuring a fashionable woman wearing Mucha-style jewellery, 1900

P

Pharmaceutical poster: Vin des Incas, 1897

Photographic portrait of Alphonse Mucha

Poster for ‘Documents décoratifs’, 1902

Poster for ‘Documents décoratifs’, plate 14, 1902

Poster for ‘Documents décoratifs’, plate 15, 1902

Poster for ‘Documents décoratifs’, plate 19, 1902

Poster for ‘Documents décoratifs’, plate 25, 1902

Poster for ‘Documents décoratifs’, plate 27, 1902

Poster for ‘Documents décoratifs’, plate 45, 1902

Poster for ‘Documents décoratifs’, plate 47, 1902

Poster for ‘Documents décoratifs’, plate 50, 1902

Poster for ‘Documents décoratifs’, plate 56, 1902

Poster for ‘Documents décoratifs’, plate 57, 1902

Poster for ‘Gismonda’, 1894

Poster for ‘Médée’, 1898

Poster for ‘Monaco – Monte-Carlo’, P.L.M. railway services, 1897

Poster for Bières de la Meuse, 1897

Poster for Cycles Perfecta, 1902

Poster for Job cigarette paper, 1896

Poster for Job cigarette paper, 1898

Poster for Moët & Chandon: Champagne White Star, 1899

Poster for Moët & Chandon: Dry Impérial, 1899

Poster for Moravian Teachers’ Choir, 1911

Poster for Salon des Cent 20th exhibition, 1896

Poster for Salon des Cent Mucha Exhibition June 1897, 1897

Poster for the 8th Sokol Festival Prague 1926, 1925

Poster for the Slav Epic Exhibition, Brno 1930, 1928

Primrose, 1899

Princess Hyacinthe, 1911

R

Rêverie, 1897

S

Sarah Bernhardt as La Princess Lointaine, 1896

Savon Mucha, 1906

Self-Portrait, 1899

Study for ‘Zodiac’, 1896

Study for Czechoslovak Y.W.C.A., 1922

T

The Arts: Dance, 1898

The Arts: Music, 1898

The Arts: Painting, 1898

The Arts: Poetry, 1898

The Arts: study for ‘Dance’, 1898

The Arts: study for ‘Music’, 1898

The Arts: study for ‘Painting’, 1898

The Arts: study for ‘Poetry’, 1898

The Flowers: Carnation, 1898

The Flowers: Iris, 1898

The Flowers: Lily, 1898

The Flowers: Rose, 1898

The Literary Digest, 1907

The Months, 1899

The Moon and the Stars: study for ‘The Evening Star’, 1902

The Moon and the Stars: study for ‘The Moon’, 1902

The Moon and the Stars: study for ‘The Morning Star’, 1902

The Moon and the Stars: study for ‘The Pole Star’, 1902

The Passing Wind Takes Youth Away, Design for a fan and the façade of thePavilion of Man,1899

The Precious Stones: Ruby, 1900

The Precious Stones: Topaz, 1900

The Seasons: Autumn, 1896

The Seasons: Spring, 1896

The Seasons: Summer, 1896

The Seasons: Winter, 1896

The Times of the Day: Brightness of Day, 1899

The Times of the Day: Evening Contemplation, 1899

The Times of the Day: Morning Awakening, 1899

The Times of the Day: Night’s Rest, 1899

Thistle from the Sands, 1902

W

Wiener Chic, January 1898

Woman Holding a Tray of Flowers, Poster forDocuments décoratifs, plate 2, 1902

Woman Holding Mistletoe, Drawing forDocuments décoratifs, board 11, 1902

Woman with Poppies, 1898

Z

Zdeňka Cerný, 1903

Zodiac, 1896

Photographic portrait of Alphonse Mucha

Biography

1860:

Alphonse Mucha is born on 24 July in Ivancice, Moravia, a province of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He is the son of a court usher and is brought up in keeping with the virtues of nationalism. He begins to draw at a young age.

1871:

Mucha is a chorister at St Peter’s Cathedral in Brno, where he receives his secondary school education. It is there that he has his first revelation, in front of the richness of Baroque art. During the four years of studying there, he forms a friendship with Leoš Janácek who would become the greatest Czech composer of his generation.