What nationality was artist Alphonse Mucha who lived from 1869 to 1939 ?
Alphonse Mucha Alphonse Mucha Alfons Maria Mucha (; 24 July 1860 – 14 July 1939), known as Alphonse Mucha, was a Czech painter, illustrator and graphic artist, living in Paris during the Art Nouveau period, best known for his distinctly stylized and decorative theatrical posters of Sarah Bernhardt. He produced illustrations, advertisements, decorative panels and designs which became among the best-known images of the period. In the second part of his career, at the age of 43, he returned to his homeland and devoted himself to painting a series of twenty monumental canvases known as "The Slav Epic", depicting the history of
Alphonse Mucha and Mucha was able to devote his attention to what he considered his most important work; "The Slav Epic". a series of large painting illustrating the achievements of the Slavic peoples over history. The series had twenty paintings, half devoted to the history of the Czechs, and ten to other Slavic peoples. The canvases were enormous; the finished works measured six by eight meters. To paint them he rented an apartment and a studio in the Zbiroh Castle in western Bohemia, where he lived and worked until 1928. While living in Paris Mucha had imagined the series as "light shining