Special 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.
Geraldine Mucha, photo: www.clubmagazine.cz
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