J%C3%A1nos Mattis Teutsch

Jnos MattisTeutsch or MttisTeutsch, MtisTeutsch was a Hungarian and Romanian painter, sculptor, graphic artist, art critic, and poet. Best known for his Seelenblumen cycle of paintings, he was an important contributor to the development of modern art and avantgarde trends inside Romania . He was the grandfather of the artist Waldemar MattisTeutsch.

He was born in the Transylvanian city of Brass , then part of the Kingdom of Hungary within AustriaHungary, now part of Romania. He was the son of Jnos Mtis, an ethnic Hungarian of Szkely origins, and his wife, the Saxon Josefin Schneider. After Mtis died during his sons early years, Josefin married the Saxon Friedrich Teutsch, who adopted Jnos. He completed primary school in Hungarian, and then attended the Germanlanguage Honterus Secondary School between 1901 and 1903, he studied sculpture at the National Hungarian Royal School for Applied Arts in Budapest, and then left for Munich, where he attended the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, and Paris during the period, MattisTeutsch appears to have moved from Art nouveau to PostImpressionist and Fauvist themes, and eventually embraced Die Brcke and Der Blaue Reiter ideas.

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