Gold half-ounce medal with stamp motif Blondie

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Gold commemorative medal in the shape of a stamp - 1/2 Oz

Gold commemorative medal in the shape of a stamp with the motif of Blondie by Alfons Mucha was issued by the Prague Mint in 2012. The medal is minted in 1/2 ounce (15.56 g) of 999.9 purest gold, supplied in a plastic capsule in a limited edition of only 200 pieces!

Alfons Mucha

Alfons Maria Mucha (24 July 1860 Ivančice - 14 July 1939 Prague) was a Czech painter and designer of the Art Nouveau period.

He became famous almost overnight for his theatre poster Gismond (1894-1895), commissioned by the Parisian actress Sarah Bernhardt. The actress later contracted with Mucha, and he created several more posters for her and the Renaissance Theatre in Paris.

In 1879, he went to Vienna to work as a painter of theatrical decorations for the Kautský - Brioschi - Burghardt company. He then went to Mikulov, where he painted portraits of local residents. In 1883 he was invited by Count Khuen Belassi to create interior decorations for the Emmahof Castle, Emín, near Hrušovany nad Jevišovkou. In 1885 he went to Munich to study at the Academy and two years later to Paris to study at the Julian Academy. In 1892, he is commissioned to illustrate Charles Seignobos's Scénesis et épisodes de l'histoire d'Allemagne. A fateful turning point in his career came in 1897 when he was commissioned to make a poster for Sarah Bernhardt.

Much's most famous period is around the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. In 1906, he married Maria Chytil. He was hailed in the USA as the world's greatest decorative artist, yet he longed to return to Bohemia. He became the author of the first stamps and banknotes of the independent Czechoslovak Republic. However, Mucha was not only a graphic artist and creator of world-famous art nouveau posters. His versatile talents spanned all artistic disciplines, from sculpture to theatre. Alfons Mucha was a great patriot and throughout his life he dreamed of realising a series of large-format paintings, the Slavic Epic, which he wanted to summarise the history of the Slavic nation. The cycle of large canvases was painted at the Zbiroh castle from 1910. The epic was completed in 1928 and Mucha's American patron Charles Crane donated it to Prague. Today this cycle can be found in the castle in Moravské Krumlov.

Alfons Mucha died in Prague on 14 July 1939 after being interrogated by the Gestapo due to pneumonia.