Biography
Mária Mátyás (sometimes transliterated as Maria Matyas) is a contemporary printmaker listed as based in Germany, whose work in the international juried mokuhanga circuit is documented through her selection for the 2024 International Mokuhanga Conference in Echizen City, Fukui Prefecture, Japan. Her print Morning at Kawaguchiko — a vertically oriented work in a slender 40 by 18 centimetre format, executed in mokuhanga (water-based woodblock) — was included in the conference's juried international exhibition. The title refers to Lake Kawaguchi (Kawaguchiko), one of the Fuji Five Lakes on the northern flank of Mount Fuji, and the print's slender, almost scroll-like proportion and dawn-light subject place the work in the meditative landscape register of the contemporary mokuhanga revival rather than in the more decorative kachō-e tradition.
Beyond the 2024 conference selection, the publicly available record is thin. A confirmed birth year, the artist's specific city or studio within Germany, a formal art-school affiliation, an extended exhibition history, and a museum-collection record have not been published in the available English-language sources. She is best characterized at present as a working European mokuhanga printmaker whose entry into the international juried record has been established through the conference's juried-selection process, and whose individual career documentation outside the exhibition catalogue remains limited in the available reference resources.
Key Facts
- Nationality
- 🇩🇪Germany
- Movement
- Contemporary Mokuhanga
- Works Indexed
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Frequently Asked Questions
Mária Mátyás (sometimes transliterated as Maria Matyas) is a contemporary printmaker listed as based in Germany, whose work in the international juried mokuhanga circuit is documented through her selection for the 2024 International Mokuhanga Conference in Echizen City, Fukui Prefecture, Japan. Her print Morning at Kawaguchiko — a vertically oriented work in a slender 40 by 18 centimetre format, executed in mokuhanga (water-based woodblock) — was included in the conference's juried international exhibition. The title refers to Lake Kawaguchi (Kawaguchiko), one of the Fuji Five Lakes on the northern flank of Mount Fuji, and the print's slender, almost scroll-like proportion and dawn-light subject place the work in the meditative landscape register of the contemporary mokuhanga revival rather than in the more decorative kachō-e tradition.
Maria Matyas's work was shaped by the Contemporary Mokuhanga tradition in Japanese woodblock printmaking. Contemporary Mokuhanga: Contemporary mokuhanga (literally "wood-block print") encompasses artists working from approximately 1970 to the present who continue or reinvent traditional Japanese woodblock printing techniques.