Mate Biography

Publication Visited the St. Petersburg Drawing School for Coming, Where in Engaged in Engraving Under the Guidance of Seryakov. In He Entered the Academy of Arts; in - a Small Incentive Medal; In Graduated from the Scientific Course. In, was sent, at the expense of the grand duke vladimir alexandrovich, to Paris, to Pannemaker to Improve the Engraving. In - The Title of Class Artist of 2 Degrees.

In, the Title of Academician of Engraving. SINCE, Mamber of the Imperial Academy of Arts. NaveDyvalsya Engraving Department of the Academy of Fine Arts and Professor and Head. Matai Marks Both The Pinnacle and Final Stage in the Development of Russian of Engraving. Favorite and Most Talented Student of L. Seryakov, To Whom He Bequeeted His Tools, Mate Worked in WoodCut and Etching. Art Education He Received F sterst at The Drawing School of the Oph, and the Engraving Class of the St.

Petersburg Academy of Arts, Led by F. As a Pensioner of Arts from to, Mate Polished His Skills in the Famous Fortesta of Gyara and Xylographs a. For My Life Mate Havy Done a Huge Number of Reproduction Sheets. Only in etching them, and of them - Portraits. But The Greatest Success He Achieved in the Field of Black-And-White Woodcuts, Masterfully Imitating and Graphic Originals.

The Very Same Mate ABOUT THE WORK of the Engraver Creatively and Not Take Her Only to A Repetition of the Original.

And AGain: "The Engraver Transfers Their Individuality, Which is Always Combined with the Inspiration of the Author-Artists News. Of Life and Such The Delights, Which Will Apprecate the Author Painting ". However, The Time of Engraving Alread Passed. She COULD Not COMPETE with PhotoChanical Printing Methods that Were Rapidly Developing in Russia in the S, The Best WoodCuts Mate Dated Half of the S - Early S it Such Masterpieces as the Reproduction of the "Boyarina Morozova" Ca.

Surikov at the Photos Sent Mate by the Painter, As Well as Several Sheets with Sketches of the Painting of Ilya Repin "The Cossacks". Especially Good Head "Laughing Zaporozhes" that is not included in the final view of repino picture. With, Mate Goes with A Woodcut On the Technique of Ethting, Which, In His Opinion, Gave Great Opporties for Creative Interpretations of the Original.

HIS BEST Works in this field are considered as portraits. The Depth of Interpretation of the Images and a Virtuo Performance Highlighted Images of M. Belyaev and P. Tretyakov, with the Famous Portrait of Ilya Repin. It Will BE Important for the Development of Printmaking in Russia and Teaching Mate at Cutr, As Professor of Engraving at the Academy of Arts - And Finally, At the Drawing School of the OPH, What He Started Himself.

Students Mate Was Subsequently Such Famous Engravers as Anna Ostroumova-Labedeva, I. Pavlov, P. Shillingovsky and Others. Repin, V. Serov, I. Levitan, B. Kustodiev, K. Somov, E. Lansere, L. Bakst, S.