Jaroslava Muchová

Jaroslava Muchová Syllabová (15 March 1909 – 9 November 1986[1]) was a Czech painter, the daughter of painter Alphonse Mucha and the sister of writer and translator Jiří Mucha.

[1] Her parents were in the United States while her father tried unsuccessfully to raise funds to support his penultimate project The Slav Epic (Czech: Slovanská epopej).

As a child she studied ballet, but eventually followed in the footsteps of her father: she assisted in the creation of the Slav Epic by mixing colours and tracing detail studies onto the giant canvases ready for painting.

She was responsible for painting the entire starry sky of Slavs in their Original Homeland: Between the Turanian Whip and the sword of the Goths (Czech: Slované v pravlasti: Mezi turanskou knutou a mečem Gótů).

After World War II, she took on the restoration of works from the Slav Epic that had been damaged by frost and water when they were stored away to hide them from the Nazis.