Exhibition by fine artist from Romania inaugurated at Chisinmau-based museum

Chisinau, 9 July /MOLDPRES/ - The National Art Museum of Moldova, in cooperation with the Art Museum from Brasov, Romania, today inaugurated a retrospective exhibition titled, Under sign of vanguard, by departed fine artist from Brasov, Hans Mattis-Teutsch.     

Contacted by MOLDPRES, the director of the National Art Museum of Moldova, Tudor Zbarnea, said that the exhibition comprised 34 fine art works from the collection of the Brasov Art Museum, signed by Hans Mattis-Teutsch. ‘’He is an artist of the Romanian vanguard, who asserted himself in the most serious way in the vanguard painting, an artist with a quite visible individuality,’’ Zbarnea stressed.   

Hans Mattis-Teutsch (1884-1960) started his art education in Brasov. Subsequently, he attended courses of the Royal National of Arts and Crafts from Budapest and studied at the sculpture section of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts from Munich (1902-1905). He lived in Paris during 1905-1908.     

In 1917, Hans Mattis-Teutsch opened his first exhibition at MA Gallery. After the war, he cooperated with Abstrakte Gruppe der Sturm (Berlin) and A bis Z Gruppe (Köln). He exhibited at the Der Sturm Gallery (1921-1925). In Romania, Mattis-Teutsch exhibited in Cluj and Bucharest in 1924, when he participated in the International Art Exhibition of the Contemporanul (The Contemporary) magazine. In 1928, he took part in the International Abstract Exhibition in Berlin. In 1931, the fine artist published the Ideology of Art – a theoretical work in which he set forth his concept about art.    

Stating from 1933 till 1944, he withdrew himself from public life, amid family problems and ascension of the extremism. After the war, he fulfilled an important role in the revival of the artistic life of Brasov through the creation of a trade union of artists and a free academy of painting, by participating in collective exhibitions organized in the city. In 1950-53, the fine artist was excluded from the exhibition life, due to his refusal to comply with the dogmas of the socialist realism. After 1955, he returned and held the position of president of the Fine Artists’ Union – Brasov branch.     

The exhibition will be opened till 5 September.