🖼 Alfons Mucha has the unique distinction of being the only one in our Czech painters series to have a new style of art named after him. In French, what later became Art Nouveau was first known as le stile Mucha or the Mucha style. What is less well-known is that Mucha also designed the first postage stamp and the first bank notes for the newly-formed country of Czechoslovakia once it gained independence from Austria-Hungary. His iconic works can be seen in galleries and museums all around Prag

If you're walking through the city center and love art, don’t skip the Mucha Museum – a tribute to one of the greatest masters of Art Nouveau, Alphonse Mucha (1860–1939).⁣ ⁣ Housed inside the beautiful Savarin Palace, you’ll find around 80 original works – oil paintings, pastels, drawings, photographs, sculptures, and even personal belongings that tell the story of the man behind the iconic posters of Sarah Bernhardt.⁣ ⁣ What makes this exhibition truly special? Some of the pieces have never bee