The Mucha Foundation, an independent, non-profit making charity founded to preserve, conserve, and promote the works of Alphonse Mucha, the pre-eminent exponent of Art Nouveau, is announcing the launch of their new, fully re-designed website at www.muchafoundation.org.

The Mucha Foundation´s website has been rebuilt from the ground up as a comprehensive source of information for all things Alphonse Mucha. This new interactive portal includes a gallery that features over 300 pieces from the Mucha Trust Collection, the largest collection of works by Mucha in the world. In the gallery, the visitor will find not only Mucha´s well-known and beloved lithographs, but also a broad range of his oil paintings, sketches, sculpture, and jewellery. The online gallery will develop and expand to reflect the breadth of the collection, offering our visitors an encyclopaedic experience of Mucha´s achievements.

The site features a dynamic, image-rich timeline of Mucha´s life within the context of contemporary historical and artistic events and shows how his artistic legacy has been protected and promoted by his family, leading to the establishment of the Foundation and its ongoing mission to celebrate his life and work.

Visitors will also be able to learn more about the Foundation´s research and preservation work; future, current, and past exhibitions; and news of the Foundation´s efforts to promote and protect Mucha´s artistic achievements.

Currently, the Foundation is organising an exhibition at the National Czech & Solvak Museum & Library in the United States, continuing to advocate for the conservation of Mucha´s masterpiece the Slave Epic as the dispute over the permenent exhibition space with the city of Prague rages on (The Newspaper, 5 April 2012), and is in talks with city officials to open a museum in Paris (Le Journal des Arts, 13 April 2012).

The Mucha Foundation was founded in 1992, following the death of the artist´s son, Ji?í, by his wife Geraldine and their only son, John Mucha.

Alphonse Mucha believed passionately that art was an essential benefit to humanity and that it should be seen and enjoyed by as many people as possible. The Foundation continues this legacy through a worldwide exhibition programme, a publications programme, and the Mucha Museum in Prague.