ALPHONSE MUCHA: How cookie ADVERTISING and MASONIC RITUALS created an Art Nouveau icon who was KI...
His posters are printed on postcards and phone cases, but few know that their creator died after interrogation by the Gestapo. In 1939, Alphonse Mucha—the creator of the era's most elegant style—was listed as a top-priority enemy of the Reich. Not for his underground activities, but for the 20 paintings he considered the meaning of his life.
This video tells the true biography of the king of Art Nouveau, which reads more like a thriller script. Poverty and a fire that claimed hundreds of lives; a chance call on Christmas Eve that changed everything; occult seances, Masonic rituals, and 18 years of self-imposed seclusion in a cold castle for the sake of a work that, after the artist's death, would lie rolled up in a dark basement for a quarter of a century.
TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Prague. March 15, 1939
02:51 The Boy Who Drawn Before He Could Walk
07:03 The Fire, the Count, and the Last Train
11:21 Paris: Lentils, Gauguin, and Ghosts
16:27 The Christmas Miracle on Rue Lemercier
20:55 Sarah, Fame, and the Advertisement of Everything
27:36 A Freemason, a Mystic, a Slav
31:32 America, Crane, and the Decision of a Lifetime
36:10 Zbiroh Castle: Eighteen Years in Silence
42:11 The List of Enemies of the Reich
46:11 Canvases Without Walls
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