Alphonse
Mucha was born in 1860 in Ivancice, Moravia, which is
near the city of Brno in the modern Czech Republic. It
was a small town, and for all intents and purposes life
was closer to the 18th than the 19th century. Though Mucha
is supposed to have started drawing before he was walking,
his early years were spent as a choirboy and amateur musician.
It wasn't until he finished high school (needing two extra
years to accomplish that onerous task) that he came to
realize that living people were responsible for some of
the art he admired in the local churches. That epiphany
made him determined to become a painter, despite his father's
efforts in securing him "respectable" employment as a
clerk in the local court.
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