Printed: 2024-04-27
Mathy, A. & Fils
Identity
Category
Partnership
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- Connected
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Life dates
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1909 - 1914 > Liège, Rue Henri Maus, 177<09> or 183<11-14>
Photoengraving. André Jean Joseph Mathy (° Hollogne-aux-Pierres, 23.6.1850; + ? Grâce-Berleur, 25.11.1932) was a printer, painter and illustrator. He initially worked for the printing house of H. Dessain in Liège (see entry). Immediately after J.-C. Hoesch transferred to Dessain the rights to his patent of 5.8.1886 for "coloured printing by photographic means" on 5.12.1891, Mathy was despatched to Vienna to learn how to work the process.
Mathy opened his own graphic printing works in Rue Henri Maus in partnership with his son in 1900. The firm supplied high-quality illustrations to leading Belgian publishers. On letterhead dated 1909, "patented photo-chemigraphic establishment / drawing - illustration - painting". After World War I, Mathy painted a series of war-inspired scenes of invasion, occupation and deportation. The firm was still operating at no. 183 in 1935: "studio for photoengraving, halftone and line printing". A collection of Mathy's illustrations, donated by Jean Moors, is held in the "Musée de la Vie Wallonne".
Photoengraving. André Jean Joseph Mathy (° Hollogne-aux-Pierres, 23.6.1850; + ? Grâce-Berleur, 25.11.1932) was a printer, painter and illustrator. He initially worked for the printing house of H. Dessain in Liège (see entry). Immediately after J.-C. Hoesch transferred to Dessain the rights to his patent of 5.8.1886 for "coloured printing by photographic means" on 5.12.1891, Mathy was despatched to Vienna to learn how to work the process.
Mathy opened his own graphic printing works in Rue Henri Maus in partnership with his son in 1900. The firm supplied high-quality illustrations to leading Belgian publishers. On letterhead dated 1909, "patented photo-chemigraphic establishment / drawing - illustration - painting". After World War I, Mathy painted a series of war-inspired scenes of invasion, occupation and deportation. The firm was still operating at no. 183 in 1935: "studio for photoengraving, halftone and line printing". A collection of Mathy's illustrations, donated by Jean Moors, is held in the "Musée de la Vie Wallonne".
Locations
1909 - 1914 > Liège, Rue Henri Maus, 177<09> or 183<11-14>
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Bibliography/Webography
MOORS, Jean. “André Mathy, peintre, illustrateur, artiste”, Cahiers de la Commission historique de Grace Hollogne, no. 7, 2003.
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Record source
DIRECTORY_2017#2727
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Dates of creation/revision
SFJ new 6.8.2023; SFJ revised 20.8.2023; SFJ revised 18.9.2023 & 15.10.2023 based on information supplied by M. Demaeght