Matorin Mikhail Vladimirovich

Honored artist of the RSFSR, Professor of the Moscow State art Institute named after V. I. Surikov. Graphic artist, watercolorist, easel artist, master of book design, worked in the technique of woodcut and linocut. He studied at the art school of I. D. Sytin's typolithography. He graduated from the State art and industrial printing workshop (1914-1920). Since 1950, he has been a teacher and professor of the engraving class at the Surikov Moscow State art Institute. Participant of art exhibitions since 1920. The artist's works are in the collections of the the Russian State museum, the State Tretyakov Gallery, and the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, other museums and private collections in Russia and abroad.