Ugo Matania (1888–1963) was an Italian artist and illustrator active in Britain during the First World War, particularly noted for his works for The Sphere and The London Magazine.[1] Three of his oil paintings and one of his watercolours are in the Wellcome Collectionin London.[2]
He was born in Naples, the nephew of Eduardo Matania and the first cousin of Fortunino Matania, both also artists.[3] In 1911 he received a degree in Advertising Diagram and Design[4] and two years later moved to London, remaining there until 1924.[4]
On his return to Italy he worked for Corriere della Sera and their fortnightly magazine Il Romanzo per Tutti.[4] He was still exhibiting in 1948[5] and also produced marble stations of the cross for the church of Maria Santissima del Carmine in Castellammare di Stabia.[6]