Alphonse Mucha

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Alphonse Mucha Born in Ivancice, Moravia (Czechia), in 1860, died in Prague in 1939. Famous for his sleek posters of women at the height of the art nouveau movement. In 1885 he studied at the Munich Academy of Art and then moved to the Academie Julian in Paris. In Paris, he took commissions for illustrations, portraits and decorative projects, but became most famous for his poster designs for plays, especially under the patronage of Sarah Bernhardt in the 1890s. The success of his posters led to a commercial career in decorative design for commercial and advertising products. Mucha also created jewelry designs, and briefly taught art in New York. In 1910, Mucha returned to Prague to work on nationalistic art, including murals, postage stamps, stained glass and bank notes. Digital fonts that were inspired by Mucha: Scriptorium published fonts based on his lettering, such as Abaddon, Bernhardt, Slava, Moravia, Gehenna, Princess Hyacinth, Gismonda and Samaritan. Herbert Van Brink (aka Character) created a free font called Mucha French Capitals (2010). P22 Mucha (2001, P22): an art nouveau font inspired by Alfons Mucha, ca. 1900. Lukyan Turetskyy: Modern Wave (2013). Dave Ward: Mucha (1999). Kiwifrog: The free font Mucha Like (2009). Milos Kunst: Mucha (2011, art nouveau). Gryzor: Mucha Font. CV. One of his alphabets. Viennese Secession link. View commercial fonts that descend from Mucha's work.	EXTERNAL LINKS Alphonse Mucha [Designer info] Dafont page MyFonts search Monotype search Fontspring search Google search INTERNAL LINKS History of type ⦿ Type design in Czechia ⦿ Type scene in New York ⦿ Art Nouveau typefaces ⦿ Nick Curtis ⦿ Type design in France ⦿