PAINTER

Alphonse Mucha

1860 - 1939

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Alfons Maria Mucha (Czech: [ˈalfons ˈmuxa] ; 24 July 1860 – 14 July 1939), 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 Bernhardt. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alphonse Mucha has received more than 2,776,921 page views. His biography is available in 62 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 61 in 2019). Alphonse Mucha is the 63rd most popular painter (up from 71st in 2019), the 16th most popular biography from Czechia and the most popular Czech Painter.

Alphonse Mucha is most famous for his art nouveau posters, which are considered to be among the most beautiful in the world.

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  • 62

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.73

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.48

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Alphonse Mucha ranks 63 out of 2,023. Before him are Artemisia Gentileschi, Jean-François Millet, Egon Schiele, Domenico Ghirlandaio, Kazimir Malevich, and Théodore Géricault. After him are Giovanni Bellini, Francis Bacon, Frans Hals, Georges Seurat, Henri Rousseau, and Lucas Cranach the Elder.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1860, Alphonse Mucha ranks 6. Before him are Anton Chekhov, Gustav Mahler, Theodor Herzl, Klara Hitler, and Jane Addams. After him are Eduard Buchner, Kanō Jigorō, Raymond Poincaré, Anders Zorn, Willem Einthoven, and William Jennings Bryan. Among people deceased in 1939, Alphonse Mucha ranks 3. Before him are Sigmund Freud, and Pope Pius XI. After him are Howard Carter, Nadezhda Krupskaya, Joseph Roth, Eugen Bleuler, W. B. Yeats, James Naismith, Werner von Fritsch, Philipp Scheidemann, and Anton Makarenko.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Alphonse Mucha ranks 16 out of 1,200. Before him are Rainer Maria Rilke (1875), Oskar Schindler (1908), Bedřich Smetana (1824), Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor (1316), Edmund Husserl (1859), and Jan Žižka (1360). After him are Ferdinand Porsche (1875), John of Nepomuk (1350), Karel Čapek (1890), Wilhelm Steinitz (1836), Albrecht von Wallenstein (1583), and Kurt Gödel (1906).

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Among PAINTERS In Czechia

Among painters born in Czechia, Alphonse Mucha ranks 1. After him are Anton Raphael Mengs (1728), František Kupka (1871), Wenceslaus Hollar (1607), Emil Orlík (1870), Karel Škréta (1610), Toyen (1902), Petr Brandl (1668), Anna Chromý (1940), Gabriel von Max (1840), Zdeněk Burian (1905), and Georg Flegel (1566).

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