Paul Mathey - Painting

Paul Mathey
Oil on cardboard
dimensions: 48 x 68 cm

Paul Mathey is a Swiss painter born in 1891 and died in 1972. He is a painter of landscapes, flowers, watercolor, theater scenery painter. He received his early education in New York at the Art Student's League from 1905 to 1910. Then, he returned to Geneva, where he settled and where he was a pupil of Barthelemy Menn, School of Fine Arts. He also received the advice of Ferdinand Hodler. He traveled in Dalmatia, in Rome, Italy, Belgium; He has a studio in Paris. In 1935 in London he studied especially the English landscape painters, who influenced him as much as the Impressionists.