Konrad Mägi

(1878-1925)

Itaalia maastik. 1921

Oil on canvas. 67 x 58 cm
price 41 607 (sold)


Konrad Mägi "Itaalia maastik"

Konrad Mägi’s Italian period is unanimously regarded next to Saaremaa as the second “big” period. After the summer of 1914 at Saaremaa Mägi had continuously been looking for new sources of inspiration, as painting two summers running on one island was for him a remarkably long period of absorption. Still, the possibility to gather new impressions did not arrive very soon, even though he accomplished several excellent works anyway. Mägi postponed several trips abroad because of different, incl. economic reasons and went painting for example at Otepää or Võrumaa. At the end of the 1910ies Mägi concentrated on starting of the “Pallas” school and having been elected there the first director, the school certainly got the majority of his time.
Also the long trip abroad, which started in 1921, took him first on school business to Germany, more exactly to Berlin, Dresden and Munich. Even though he stayed in Germany for several months, he painted there nothing – he spent all of his time on visiting lecturers, acquiring of supplies for the school or visiting theatres and museums. Only at the end of December Mägi arrives in Rome, but after a first couple of days he writes home that “I’ve got the feeling as if I have returned home after several years” and “I feel myself wonderful, I have the desire to live and accomplish something – here I feel life has a meaning”.
And really, Mägi, whose life and creation had been quite nervous during the last couple of years, starts to accomplish in Italy such works of which Evi Pihlak says that “while comparing with the previous creative period the works which have been accomplished in Italy, seem to be much more harmonious and balanced”. Still, Mägi does not loose here any of his dynamics and dash, his paintings are still extraordinarily powerful, “also their painting manner is agile and impetuous”. For the first time into the creation of Mägi are introduced powerfully exotic architectural motifs, which give the possibility to experiment with forms and adding of new hues. Mägi, who is still in the first range a superb colour handler, does not throw onto the canvas dozens of colour dots anymore, but he takes some prevailing colours and moves among these. But oddly he can make it very much alive – “an intense convulsiveness, which could have been detected in the last works, which were accomplished at home, is now gone”, writes Pihlak. “Cheerful and sensitive note, which meanwhile started to disappear from works by Mägi, re-appears.”

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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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