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Current AffairsPrague's Mucha Museum welcomes its millionth visitor
Prague's Mucha Museum - dedicated to the life and work of the
world-renowned Czech artist Alphonse Mucha - received its millionth
visitor this week. The museum was opened in January 1998 and is the most
frequently visited private museum in the Czech capital.
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Current AffairsMucha's masterpiece may be in Prague by 2008
The Art Nouveau "Slav Epic" is considered the magnum opus of the
artist Alfons Mucha. But for decades the paintings have been housed
"temporarily" in a chateau in a small Moravian village which is
difficult to reach. The city of Prague has long wished to build a home for
the paintings, and a spokesman now says construction of a permanent gallery
could start in a little more than a year.
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SpecialGeraldine Mucha: still composing at 88 and guarding the legacy of the most famous painter in Czech history
Even if you have never heard of the Czech artist Alfons Mucha, you will
almost certainly have seen his work. He is probably the defining artist of
the Art Nouveau period at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, and the
wonderfully lush and expressive posters he designed in Paris - most
famously of the actress Sarah Bernhardt - have been reproduced many times
the world over. Today Alfons Mucha's works are in the loving care of his
grandson John and daughter-in-law, Geraldine Mucha, here in Prague.
Geraldine is an accomplished and internationally respected composer, and
at 88 is still hard at work, living in the beautiful and romantically
impractical 18th century flat which has been her home for most of the last
50 years. But how did she, as a Scot, come to settle in Prague, living
through some of the most dramatic events of the second half of the 20th
century? Over the next twenty minutes she tells her amazing story in
conversation with Patricia Goodson.
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Czech MusicEncore: Geraldine Mucha: still composing at 88 and guarding the legacy of the most famous painter in Czech history
Even if you have never heard of the Czech artist Alfons Mucha, you will
almost certainly have seen his work. He is probably the defining artist of
the Art Nouveau period at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, and the
wonderfully lush and expressive posters he designed in Paris - most
famously of the actress Sarah Bernhardt - have been reproduced many times
the world over. Today Alfons Mucha's works are in the loving care of his
grandson John and daughter-in-law, Geraldine Mucha, here in Prague.
Geraldine is an accomplished and internationally respected composer, and
at 88 is still hard at work, living in the beautiful and romantically
impractical 18th century flat which has been her home for most of the last
50 years. But how did she, as a Scot, come to settle in Prague, living
through some of the most dramatic events of the second half of the 20th
century? Over the next twenty minutes she tells her amazing story in
conversation with Patricia Goodson.
More
ArtsMucha's works for World Exhibition 1900 exhibited in Prague
A new exhibition is underway at Prague's Municipal House, featuring works by the famous Czech Art Nouveau artist Alfons Mucha. Although Mucha has his own museum in Prague, the pictures exhibited in the Municipal House were borrowed from abroad and this is a unique opportunity for Czech art lovers to see them.
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Current Affairs Mucha's works for World Exhibition 1900 exhibited at Municipal House
A new exhibition is underway in Prague's Municipal House, featuring works by the famous Czech Art Nouveau artist Alfons Mucha. Although Mucha has his own museum in Prague, the pictures exhibited in the Municipal House were borrowed from abroad and this is a unique opportunity for Czech art lovers to see them. Alena Skodova was at the opening ceremony and has this report:
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Czechs in HistoryAlfons Mucha
And now it's time for this week's edition of Czechs in History, in which we examine the lives of famous figures in the history of the Czech Lands. Today, Nick Carey paints a portrait of Czech Art Nouveau painter Alfons Mucha...
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