Åke Mattas
Åke Carl-Anders Mattas (born January 14, 1920 in Mänttä , † December 20, 1962 in Helsinki ) was a Finnish painter. In the period after the Second World War he represented a new expressionism along with other artists.
Life
As a child, Mattas first moved to Sweden with his family . A few years later a move to Greece followed . From 1928 the family lived again in Oulu , Finland . There he attended a Swedish school. He studied at the Helsinki School of Applied Arts (1938/1939). From 1945 to 1946 he attended the Finnish Art Academy there. He toured France and Spain. In 1946 he married Ulla Ahola. The couple had three children. The daughter Kajsa Mattas (born September 21, 1948) is a sculptor and lives in Stockholm.
Mattas exhibited internationally (e.g. Brussels, The Hague, Prague, Warsaw, Zurich, Florence, 1949/1950 Paris, 1958 Soviet Union / China, 1959 Copenhagen). Works by him are in the collections of the Ateneum and the Art Museum in Imatra . Since October 2018, the Ateneum has shown some of his works in the group exhibition Urban Encounters - Finnish Art from the 20th Century .
literature
- Elina Vieru: Ars Nordica 3: Åke Mattas: Oma kuva 1920-1962 , Pohjoinen 1991, ISBN 951-749-143-3 .
- K. Koroma: Mattas, Åke Carl-Anders . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 6 , supplements H-Z . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1962, p. 256 .
Individual evidence
- ^ The exhibition Urban Encounters to present urban life in 20th-century Finland ateneum.fi. Retrieved November 15, 2018.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Mattas, Åke |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mattas, Åke Carl-Anders (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Finnish painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 14, 1920 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mänttä |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 20, 1962 |
| Place of death | Helsinki |