Mate V.V., (1856-1917), Artist

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MATE Vasily Vasilievich (1856-1917, Petrograd) engraver and teacher. He studied at the School of Drawing at the Artists Encouragement Fund in1870-75, under L. A. Seryakov, and at the Academy of Arts in 1875-80, under F. I. Iordan. He was a retainer of the Academy of Arts in Paris from 1880 to 1883. He was a master of reproductions, etchings and word carvings. He executed numerous portraits of Russian artistic figures from photos and paintings, for example the portrait of V. V. Stasov, 1894, from the original by I. E. Repin; the portrait of Alexander Pushkin, 1899, from the original by O. A. Kiprensky; M. P. Musorgsky, 1881; the portrait of M. A. Vrubel, 1902; the portrait of Leo Tolstoy, 1910, all made from photos. He also made reproductions of paintings by A. A. Ivanov, I. E. Repin, V. I. Surikov. His longstanding pedagogical work at the Central College of Technical Drawing that lasted from 1884 until 1909, at the School of Drawing of the Artists' Encouragement Fund from 1911, and at the Academy of Arts from 1894 to 1917, was important for the development of original print art in Russia. His students included N. N. Gerardov, M. V. Dobuzhinsky, A. P. Ostroumova-Lebedeva, I. N. Pavlov, M. V. Rundaltsov, V. D. Falileev, P. A. Shillingovsky.

References: Федорова В. И. В. В. Матэ и его ученики. Л., 1982.

O. L. Leikind, D.Y. Severyukhin. Dobuzhinsky Mstislav Valerianovich
Falileev Vadim Dmitrievich
Gerardov Nikolay Nikolaevich
Iordan Fedor Ivanovich
Ivanov Alexander Andreevich
Kiprensky Orest Adamovich
Mate Vasily Vasilievich
Mussorgsky Modest Petrovich
Ostroumova-Lebedeva Anna Peterovna
Pavlov Ivan Nikolaevich
Pushkin Alexander Sergeevich
Repin Ilya Efimovich
Rundaltsov Mikhail Viktorovich
Seryakov Lavrenty Avksentievich
Shillingovsky Pavel Alexandrovich
Stasov Vladimir Vasilievich
Surikov Vasily Ivanovich
Tolstoy Lev Nikolaevich, Count
Vrubel Mikhail Alexandrovich
Федорова В. И. В. В. Матэ и его ученики. Л., 1982 Academy of Arts
Academy of Arts
Stieglitz Central Technical Drawing School