Konrad Mägi

1878–1925 · Estonian artist (1878-1925)
Allee galerii; Asukoht teadmata; E-Kunstisalong; Eesti Ajaloomuuseum; Eesti Kunstimuuseum; Eesti Rahvusarhiiv

movement Expressionism · trained at Académie Colarossi

He studied in 1888–1889 at the Uderna parish school, then in Tartu at the Pelberg elementary school, and in 1891 at the town school. He received his first basic knowledge of art in 1899–1902 at the drawing courses of the Tartu German Craftsmen's Society. He continued his art studies in 1903–1905 as an auditor in St. Petersburg at Baron Alexander Stieglitz's School of Technical Drawing, focusing, as a pupil of Amandus Adamson, on wood carving and modelling. In early autumn 1907 he went to Paris, lived in the artists' and writers' colony La Ruche (The Beehive), studied drawing at Filippo Colarossi's free academy (Académie Colarossi) and at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière, and visited art exhibitions and museums. In 1908–1910 he lived in Norway. He spent the summer of 1911 in Dieppe, Normandy. In 1912 he returned to his homeland, to Tartu, via Germany. He worked as a drawing teacher in 1913 at the Tartu town school, in 1914 at the evening school of the Society for Vocational Education, and from 1914, more permanently in 1916–1919, kept a studio. In 1919 he was active in the Estonian Working People's Commune and in the South Estonian Art Protection Committee. Konrad Mägi was one of the most colour-sensitive Estonian painters of the early decades of the 20th century, who shaped his manner by interpreting the moderate trends of contemporary modern art. His favourite colour was cadmium red. As a depicter of nature, he was greatly influenced by his motifs; new impressions of nature caused changes in his style and laid the foundation for a new creative stage. Mägi always included the sky in his paintings. On the Åland Islands he created delicate Art Nouveau plant vignettes: "Kahekesi" [Two Together] (1908; ink drawing). In Paris he came into contact with the work of the Impressionists, Neo-Impressionists, and Fauvists, under whose influence his treatment of colour changed. His works with Saaremaa motifs are the first modern Estonian landscape paintings. From 1918 onward the influence of Expressionism can be noticed, its reception being favoured by Mägi's extreme sensitivity and emotional response to troubled times. A new creative stage began with a trip to Italy, bringing calm. In Italy Mägi's most enchanting paintings were created. Alongside landscapes, he painted flowers and portraits. The mostly beautiful-looking female models reflect an Art Nouveau ideal of beauty. In his late portraits, the mood that intensified in the 1920s finds expression. (machine translation of the holder's Estonian text, unedited)

35 auction lots · 27 sold · 1999–2026 · €1,246 – €430,000 — as the auction houses published them; not a valuation

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Mustlastüdruku portree-etüüd. u 1915
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Teachers, pupils, circle

Teachers: Rudolf Julius von zur Mühlen

Pupils: Rudolf Paris · Karl Pärsimägi · Kristjan Teder · Voldemar Haas · Elfriide Maran · Margus Meinart · Peeter Krosmann · Evi Gailit · Martti Ruus

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Norra maastik männiga
1908 · Eesti KunstimuuseumNorra maastik
1908 · Eesti KunstimuuseumNorra maastik. Stilisatsioon
1909 · Eesti KunstimuuseumMaalirepro. Eesti III maalinäitus. Konrad Mäe maal Norra maastik.
1910 · Eesti AjaloomuuseumNorra motiiv
1908 · Eesti KunstimuuseumNorra motiiv vesiveskiga (Norra motiiv)
1908 · Eesti KunstimuuseumNorra motiiv kaskedega
1908 · Eesti KunstimuuseumSaaremaa maastik
1913 · Eesti KunstimuuseumSaaremaa motiiv
1912 · Eesti KunstimuuseumSaaremaa motiiv (Vilsandi motiiv)
1913 · Eesti KunstimuuseumVilsandi
1913 · Eesti KunstimuuseumVilsandi motiiv
1913 · Eesti KunstimuuseumVilsandi maastik
1913 · Tartu KunstimuuseumVilsandi tuletorn
1913 · ErakoguVaade Vilsandile Vaika saartelt
1913 · ErakoguMeditatsioon (Maastik daamiga)
1915 · Eesti KunstimuuseumKasaritsa järv
1915 · Eesti KunstimuuseumKasaritsa maastik
1915 · Eesti KunstimuuseumViljandi maastik (Kasaritsa maastik)
1915 · Eesti KunstimuuseumMaastik (Kasaritsa)
1915 · Eesti Kunstimuuseumõlimaal, Kasaritsa maastik
1916 · Viljandi MuuseumAlide Asmuse portree
1912 · Tartu KunstimuuseumOtepää maastik
1918 · Eesti Üliõpilaste Seltsa) Otepää maastik; b) Daami portree
1910 · Eesti KunstimuuseumOtepää maastik (Otepää motiiv)
1918 · Eesti KunstimuuseumOtepää maastik kirikuga
1918 · Eesti KunstimuuseumPühajärv
1918 · Eesti KunstimuuseumPühajärve maastik (Maastikumotiiv)
1918 · Eesti KunstimuuseumPühajärve maastik (Maastik. Võrumaa)
1918 · Eesti KunstimuuseumPühajärve maastik
1918 · ErakoguSuvitajad Pühajärve ääres
1918 · ErakoguCapri
1921 · Eesti KunstimuuseumCapri motiiv
1921 · Tartu KunstimuuseumVaremed Capril
1922 · Eesti KunstimuuseumCapri tänav
1922 · Tartu KunstimuuseumCapri maastik
1922 · Tartu KunstimuuseumCapri öö
1922 · ErakoguVeneetsia
1922 · Eesti KunstimuuseumVeneetsia (Kanal Veneetsias)
1922 · Eesti KunstimuuseumVeneetsia (Laevad Veneetsias)
1922 · Eesti KunstimuuseumVeneetsia motiiv
1922 · ErakoguKanal Veneetsias
1922 · Eesti KunstimuuseumVeneetsia. Purjepaadid merel
1922 · Eesti KunstimuuseumVeneetsia purjepaadid merel
Asukoht teadmataItaalia maastik
1921 · Eesti KunstimuuseumItaalia maastik. Rooma
1922 · E-KunstisalongOberstdorfi maastik
1922 · Eesti KunstimuuseumOberstdorfi motiiv
1922 · Eesti Kunstimuuseum

423 works with a picture; the first 48 here, all in the catalogue. Pictures for public-domain works, live gallery listings and the works galleries and artists show on their own pages, from those servers.

Similar artists — same period, media and subjects: Nikolai Triik · Eduard Werber · Arnold Vihvelin · Paul Raud · Paul Burman · Ants Laikmaa

Also trained at Académie Colarossi: Eduard Wiiralt · Adamson-Eric · Karl Pärsimägi · Tyra Kleen

Also working in Expressionism: Eduard Ole · Magnus Zeller · Otto Dix · Emil Nolde · Max Beckmann

Contemporaries in Eesti Kunstimuuseum: Vladimir Ivanovitš Sokolov · Fabergé Peterburg · Abram Jefimovitš Arhipov · Walther Klemm · Aleksandr Vladimirovitš Makovski

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