Ewald Mataré
German artist (1887-1965)
Ewald Wilhelm Hubert Mataré (25 February 1887 in Burtscheid, Aachen – 28 March 1965 in Büderich) was a German painter and sculptor, who dealt with, among other things, the figures of men and animals in a stylized form.
Career
Mataré began his instruction as an artist at the Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin in 1907. He was a student of Julius Ehrentraut (born 1841), Lovis Corinth (1858–1925), and the history painter Arthur Kampf. In 1918, he joined the November Group. Mataré first dedicated himself to sculpture after finishing his painting studies. A great part of his sculpted work is of animal figures.
In 1932 he received a professorship at the Düsseldorf Academy of Fine Arts. After the seizure of control of 1933 however, all cultural and artistic life in Germany was brought into ideological alignment by the Nazis; Mataré was denounced as "degenerate" and expelled from his position. One of his sculptures, Die Katze (The Cat), was placed in the exhibition of shame and derision Entartete Kunst (Degenerate Art) staged by the Nazis in Munich in 1937. Church commissions became his sole source of income.
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