Ugo Matania
Three of his oil paintings and one of his watercolours are in the Wellcome Collection in London.
Also recorded as Ugo Matanio
Ugo Matania
Ugo Matania · Wellcome Collection, London · Wellcome Collection · Public Domain Mark
- Born
- 1888 · Naples.
- Died
- 1979 · Naples.
- Nationality
- Italy · Kingdom of Italy
- Occupation
- painter · illustrator · journalist
- Languages
- Italian
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Three of his oil paintings and one of his watercolours are in the Wellcome Collection in London.
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He was born in Naples, the nephew of Eduardo Matania and the first cousin of Fortunino Matania, both also artists. In 1911 he received a degree in Advertising Diagram and Design and two years later moved to London, remaining there until 1924. On his return to Italy he worked for Corriere della Sera and their fortnightly magazine Il Romanzo per Tutti. He was still exhibiting in 1948 and also produced marble stations of the cross for the church of Maria Santissima del Carmine in Castellammare di Stabia.
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The following works and productions are recorded by name or by count. Private Fynn V.C. Institutional cataloguing adds that world War I: a French underground hospital at Verdun. Institutional cataloguing adds that world War I: wounded soldiers being placed on an aerial trolley to be carried across a ravine in the Alps. Institutional cataloguing adds that transport of wounded from bombed town. Institutional cataloguing adds that world War I: transport of the wounded.
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