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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 2,601,042 page views. His biography is available in 61 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 60 in 2019). Alphonse Mucha is the 71st most popular painter (up from 119th in 2019), the 16th most popular biography from Czechia (up from 32nd in 2019) 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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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Alphonse Mucha ranks 71 out of 1,421. Before him are Théodore Géricault, Alfred Sisley, Piero della Francesca, Henri Rousseau, Lucas Cranach the Elder, and Rogier van der Weyden. After him are Gustave Doré, Frans Hals, Pietro Perugino, Andrea Mantegna, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, and François Boucher.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1860, Alphonse Mucha ranks 5. Before him are Anton Chekhov, Gustav Mahler, Theodor Herzl, and Kanō Jigorō. After him are Klara Hitler, Eduard Buchner, Raymond Poincaré, Willem Einthoven, Isaac Albéniz, Herman Hollerith, 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, James Naismith, Nadezhda Krupskaya, Joseph Roth, W. B. Yeats, Eugen Bleuler, Werner von Fritsch, Edward Sapir, and Anton Makarenko.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Alphonse Mucha ranks 16 out of 973. Before him are Milan Kundera (1929), Rainer Maria Rilke (1875), Václav Havel (1936), Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor (1316), Ferdinand Porsche (1875), and Miloš Forman (1932). After him are Karel Čapek (1890), John of Nepomuk (1350), Joseph Schumpeter (1883), Ernst Mach (1838), Albrecht von Wallenstein (1583), and Wilhelm Steinitz (1836).

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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), Toyen (1902), Anna Chromý (1940), Gabriel von Max (1840), Emil Orlík (1870), Zdeněk Burian (1905), Mikoláš Aleš (1852), Max Švabinský (1873), and Petr Brandl (1668).

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