Marcus Mucha (born 21 March 1980) is the great-grandson of Czech artist Alphonse Mucha and grandson of Jiri Mucha and Geraldine Mucha. He is Executive Director of the Mucha Foundation.[1]

Marcus Mucha completed a double first class honours BA degree in English at Trinity College, Cambridge. After university he won a scholarship with the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation and relocated to Japan where, working with Japan Film School, he began his career in entertainment.[2]

Between 2011 - 2016 Marcus Mucha built a career in Hollywood as Vice President of Morgan Freeman's production company Revelations Entertainment. [3] Variety magazine named Marcus Mucha as one of Hollywood's new leaders. [4]

Marcus Mucha returned to Europe in 2016 to take the helm of the Mucha Foundation.[5] Under his leadership, Alphonse Mucha’s work has been presented through new technologies to wider audiences via collaborations with Google Arts & Culture[6], HTC Vive Arts[7] and the Grand Palais Immersif.[8]. Marcus Mucha said that his great-grandfather would be happy about this development of the Mucha Foundation's work, describing Alphonse Mucha as "an innovator at heart." [9]

Marcus Mucha was featured by the BBC in Michael Portillo's Great Continental Railway Adventures[10].


References edit

  1. ^ "Lidi překvapuje, jak jsem podobný pradědečkovi, říká pravnuk Alfonse Muchy". 19 January 2024.
  2. ^ "Daiwa Anglo Japanese Foundation".
  3. ^ "Marcus Mucha Promoted at Morgan Freeman's Revelations Entertainment". 24 February 2014.
  4. ^ "Hollywood's New Leaders". 28 October 2014.
  5. ^ "People - About - Mucha Foundation". Mucha Foundation.
  6. ^ "Meet Alfons Mucha". Google Arts and Culture.
  7. ^ "HTC Vive Arts". Retrieved 11 September 2022.
  8. ^ "Ce que vous allez voir dans l'expo Éternel Mucha".
  9. ^ "Galleries expand their reach in London". 9 December 2021.
  10. ^ "Great Continental Railway Adventures". BBC Media Centre. Retrieved 26 August 2020.