Mateo Cristiani

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Mateo Cristiani at a young age

Mateo Cristiani (born October 5, 1890 in Frankfurt am Main , † September 24, 1962 in Munich ) was a German expressionist painter of Italian descent. Cristiani was also active as an ex-libris artist and writer.

Life

Mateo Cristiani studied in Frankfurt at the Städelschule and then in Munich at the Debschitz-Schule . In Munich he met his future wife, the artisan Hanna Cristiani (née Johanna Stern). After graduating, he shared his studio with her, and later he had his own studio. Like Lino Salini , Mateo Cristiani was present in public, but unlike the former he did not make quick portrait sketches, but more elaborate watercolors. Both corresponded with Georg Mahr . In 1931 he became chairman of the Frankfurter Künstlergesellschaft.

Even defamed as "degenerate" , he refused to part with his Jewish wife. Due to her emigration to Switzerland he was not arrested, but was not allowed to paint or exhibit until 1945. After the war he was well known in Frankfurt again and was a. a. Reviewed by the FAZ and the Frankfurter Rundschau . In the 1950s he exhibited at the Frankfurter Kunstverein a . a. together with Friedrich Kaltwasser, Richard Schoenfeld , Heinz Wolcke and Hanny Franke . He had his studio at Neumannstrasse 6 in the Frankfurt district of Eschersheim .

Works

Most of the surviving works are watercolors, there are also a number of paintings.

  • Watercolor postcards as a diary from the First World War (part of the estate in the Frankfurt Historical Museum )
  • Coffee house scene (Koffiehuisscène in Frankfurt), watercolor 36.9 × 49.9 cm (Link)
  • "Reading woman on the veranda", 24 cm × 32 cm
  • Frankfurt seen from the Goetheturm, 59 × 44 (formerly Historisches Museum Frankfurt , missing since 1944).
  • Young cow, 95 × 130
  • Nude in Wood, 63.5 × 53.34
  • Ex libris for Franz Xaver Münzel (pharmacist and publisher in Baden / Switzerland), 1920
  • Portrait of a boy. Oil on cardboard
  • House building - construction site
  • Seated woman and bocce player in the park
  • Nude woman on the beach
  • Miraculous healing of Christ
  • View from the Sachsenhausen observation point (woodcut), 21 × 16 (link)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/nachlaesse/mahr.pdf , accessed on August 8, 2015

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Cristiani, Mateo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German expressionist painter of Italian descent
DATE OF BIRTH October 5, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH September 24, 1962
Place of death Munich