NEWS
MUCHA MUSEUM
Visiting Prague? The Official Mucha Museum contains easily the best permanent collection of Mucha's work in the world. See www.mucha.cz for more.
SPAIN TOUR
Together with Fundacion la Caixa, the Mucha Foundation presents a major touring Mucha exhibition in Spain, bringing Alphonse Mucha to six cities. After 750,000 visitors in Barcelona, Madrid and Palma, it opened in Salamanca on 28th May.
MUCHA ON WEB 2.0
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MONTPELLIER SHOW
After attracting over 100,000 visitors at the Belvedere in Vienna, the Mucha Foundation opened a show at the Musee Fabree in Montpellier, France, on June 20th.
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1860
Alphonse Maria is born at Ivancice in South Moravia on 24 July to the family of Ondfiej Mucha, a court usher.

1871
Mucha gains a choral scholarship to the Church of St Peter in Brno, the capital of Moravia.

1875
Returns to Ivancice. His father finds him work as a court clerk.

1878
Mucha applies to the Prague Academy of Fine Arts. His application is turned down with the recommendation: "Find yourself another profession where you'll be more useful".

1879
Goes to Vienna to work as a scene painter for the firm of Kautsky-Brioschi-Burghardt.
 
 1881
Leaves Vienna when the Ringtheater, his employer's best customer, burns down in a fire in which 500 people died. Mucha, as the youngest employee, receives his notice. Goes to Mikulov where he earns a living by painting portraits. Meets Count Khuen Belasi who commissions him to decorate his castle at Emmahof.

1883
Moves to Castle Gandegg, Tyrol, where Count Khuen's brother, an amateur artist, becomes Mucha's patron.

1885
Begins studies at the Munich Academy of Art, sponsored by Count Khuen's brother.

1887
Moves to Paris to study at the Academie Julian, still under the Count's sponsorship.