Konrad Mägi

(1878-1925)

Maastik kellatorniga (Kihelkonna). 1913

Oil on canvas. 61 x 68 cm
Starting price 21 826 (sold)


Konrad Mägi "Maastik kellatorniga (Kihelkonna)"

In case we pick the most significant periods of the art history of the 20. century, then Konrad Mägi and his stay at Saaremaa in years 1913 and 1914 would indisputably be one of such periods. Two summers, during which Mägi hoped to find treatment for his rheumatism in a mud spa, became a period, when were accomplised the most emblematic works of his creation. We can say without exaggerations that Saaremaa landscapes are Konrad Mägi.
The whole art history of the first half of the 20. century can actually be concentrated around Konrad Mägi. Establishment and running of the “Pallas” art school and through this the creation of a firm platform for the following Estonian art is one thing. From another hand it is unbelievable, how Mägi –“indisputably the miracle of the Estonian art” (Virve Sarapik) – made in an extremely short period a leap from the academic manner of Köler to colourful landscapes, the extreme vigour of which is considered both mystical and also reaching to the limits of a mental disease. “Nature really becomes alive on his canvases, or actually, the landscape becomes alive,” writes Hanno Kompus, the contemporary of Mägi. “Landscapes by Mägi,” says Juhan Luiga, “seem to me as extracts from the outer space, of the world itself, a colourful future world, where man exists only as a spirit.”
Evi Pihlak, one of the our leading art historians, claims in her monography that “we can talk more seriously of Mägi as the depictor of the Estonian landscape on the basis of his Saaremaa-paintings”. In her opinion Saremaa was “in the creative biography of the artist a happy finding, where he joined his existing painting experiences with a new manner of perception.” Konrad Mägi’s works that were made at Saaremaa, the majority of which of course are kept in the Estonian Art Museum, have exact dates only in a couple of cases. Works, which were made in summers of both years, are regarded to be a joint integer that are connected by joining ties. It was Saaremaa, where Mägi gave up elaboration in the studio and his works were often accomplished by painting in the nature. It has been remarked with amazement, how Mägi has chosen for the depiction of the Saaremaa weather only days with bright sunshine and how rather gray-shaded Saaremaa has become on the canvases of Mägi into landscapes, “where can be seen LIFE” (Hanno Kompus). Colourful and vigorous, technically perfect Saaremaa landscapes, which correspond to the standards of international art are indisputably pearls on the background of the whole Estonian art history. “Mägi is the first artist,” is Pihlak convinced,”who dared to approach our quite grey and modest nature with the means of modern art and discovered there the an unexpected treasure-store of picturesque values.”
But who else could that have been?

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Appearance in auctions

Landscape
Konrad Mägi
Landscape
1915-1916. Oil, cardboard 49.5 x 65.5 cm (framed)
ESTONIAN ART AUCTION - MID-19TH CENTURY TO 1965 Haus Gallery 06.05.2023
156 000
Final price: 401 000
Norwegian Landscape
Konrad Mägi
Norwegian Landscape
1908-1910. Oil, paper 25.4 x 33.2 cm (framed)
EARLIER ART CLASSICS Haus Gallery 29.10.2022
64 000
Final price: 103 000
(sold)"> (sold)Oberstdorfi maastik
Konrad Mägi
Oberstdorfi maastik
1922. oil, canvas 41 x 26 cm (framed)
Haus Gallery's spring auction Haus Gallery 25.04.2019
23 000
Final price: 26 000
Dieppe´i motiiv
Konrad Mägi
Dieppe´i motiiv
1911. oil on cardboard 46 x 57 cm (framed)
HAUS GALLERY XXXIX AUCTION 2016 spring Haus Gallery 30.03.2016
29 000
Final price:
(sold)"> (sold)Kuuvalgus
Konrad Mägi
Kuuvalgus
1906-1910. pencil, watercolor lm 25 x 33 cm (framed)
Haus Gallery 28.03.2013
2 400
Final price: 2 400
Dieppe'i motiiv
Konrad Mägi
Dieppe'i motiiv
1911. oil on cardboard 46 x 57 cm (framed)
Haus Gallery 26.10.2012
38 500
Final price:
Rooma motiiv
Konrad Mägi
Rooma motiiv
1922-1923. oil on canvas 58.5 x 50.5 cm (framed)
Haus Gallery 08.11.2010-10.11.2010
49 851
Final price:
(sold)"> (sold)Itaalia maastik
Konrad Mägi
Itaalia maastik
1922-1923. -- 85.5 x 62.5 cm (framed)
HAUS GALLERY XXII ART AUCTION 2008 spring. Old Masters Paintings Haus Gallery 22.04.2008
58 799
Final price: 73 498
(sold)"> (sold)Capri maastik
Konrad Mägi
Capri maastik
1922-1923. oil on canvas 58.5 x 67.5 cm
HAUS GALLERY´S 10. anniversary art auction Haus Gallery 25.09.2007
33 873
Final price: 127 823
(sold)"> (sold)Saaremaa rand
Konrad Mägi
Saaremaa rand
1913. Oil on cardboard 40 x 50 cm
HAUS GALLERY XVIIth ART AUCTION, 2005 autumn Haus Gallery 20.10.2005
24 286
Final price: 24 286
(sold)"> (sold)Itaalia maastik
Konrad Mägi
Itaalia maastik
1921. Oil on canvas 67 x 58 cm
HAUS GALLERY XVIIth ART AUCTION, 2005 autumn Haus Gallery 20.10.2005
34 512
Final price: 41 606
(sold)"> (sold)Saaremaa
Konrad Mägi
Saaremaa
1913. Oil on cardboard 38 x 48 cm (not framed)
HAUS GALLERY XVIth ART AUCTION, 2005 spring Haus Gallery 25.04.2005
18 854
Final price: 18 854
(sold)"> (sold)Rannamaastik
Konrad Mägi
Rannamaastik
1913. Oil on cardboard 38 x 48 cm
HAUS GALLERY XVth ART AUCTION, 2004 autumn Haus Gallery 21.10.2004
12 463
Final price: 39 306
(sold)"> (sold)Capri
Konrad Mägi
Capri
1922. Oil on canvas 56 x 68 cm (not framed)
HAUS GALLERY XIVth ART AUCTION, 2004 spring Haus Gallery 04.04.2004
11 632
Final price: 64 295
(sold)"> (sold)Maastik kellatorniga (Kihelkonna)
Konrad Mägi
Maastik kellatorniga (Kihelkonna)
1913. Oil on canvas 61 x 68 cm
HAUS GALLERY XIIIth ART AUCTION 2003 autumn Haus Gallery 23.10.2003
10 098
Final price: 21 826
(sold)"> (sold)Normandia maastik
Konrad Mägi
Normandia maastik
1911. Pencil, water-colour, paper 23 x 31 cm
HAUS / XIIth AUCTION, 2003 spring Haus Gallery 24.04.2003
3 132
Final price: 3 132
(sold)"> (sold)Alvine Käppa portree
Konrad Mägi
Alvine Käppa portree
1919. Oil on canvas 102 x 76 cm (not framed)
HAUS / XI AUCTION, 2002 autumn Haus Gallery 24.10.2002
18 279
Final price: 18 279
(sold)"> (sold)Maastik
Konrad Mägi
Maastik
1916. Oil on cardboard 25 x 50 cm (not framed)
HAUS / VII AUCTION, 2000 autumn Haus Gallery 26.10.2000
5 305
Final price: 5 305
Oberstdorfi maastik
Konrad Mägi
Oberstdorfi maastik
1922. Oil on canvas 41 x 26 cm (not framed)
HAUS / V AUCTION, 1999 autumn Haus Gallery 12.10.1999
6 391
Final price:
Lõuna-Eesti maastik
Konrad Mägi
Lõuna-Eesti maastik
1916. Pencil, paper 10 x 15 cm
HAUS / IV AUCTION, 1999 spring Haus Gallery 26.04.1999-24.04.1999
703
Final price:

Appearance in exhibitions

The Field Of Tulips
Konrad Mägi
The Field Of Tulips
1909-1910. Oil, canvas 41 x 60 cm (framed)
WORKS FROM TWO PRIVATE COLLECTIONS Haus Gallery 15.02.2023-13.03.2023

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