{"id":2051,"date":"2021-11-26T13:43:01","date_gmt":"2021-11-26T13:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/konradmagi.ee\/?p=2051"},"modified":"2022-08-29T09:45:29","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T09:45:29","slug":"a-hitherto-unknown-work-by-konrad-magi-returned-from-canada-to-estonia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/konradmagi.ee\/en\/a-hitherto-unknown-work-by-konrad-magi-returned-from-canada-to-estonia\/","title":{"rendered":"A Hitherto Unknown Work by Konrad M\u00e4gi Returned from Canada to Estonia"},"content":{"rendered":"

A hitherto unknown painting by Konrad M\u00e4gi arrived from Canada this week. The work belonging to the collection of the V\u00e4liseesti Muuseum (VEMU, Museum of Estonians Abroad) has been brought to Estonia for five years at the initiative of the Konrad M\u00e4gi Foundation. In Estonia, it will be cleaned, restored, and introduced to researchers and the public.<\/p>\n\"\"<\/a>\n

Saaremaa. 1913\u20131914. Oil on cardboard. V\u00e4liseesti Muuseum<\/em><\/p>\n

The work originates from Konrad M\u00e4gi\u2019s Saaremaa period (1913\u20131914), one of his most highly valued periods, and depicts Abaja Bay in Kihelkonna Parish. The work belonged to Laine Pant\u2019s family. The family took the painting along when they fled from Estonia in 1944. The work journeyed through Germany to Toronto, where it hung for decades in Laine Pant\u2019s flat. She bequeathed the painting to the V\u00e4liseesti Muuseum, which took possession of it after her death.<\/p>\n

According to Enn Kunila, Chairman of the Board of the Konrad M\u00e4gi Foundation, he is overjoyed by the fact that several dozen of Konrad M\u00e4gi\u2019s lost works have been successfully found in recent years. \u2018It is my particularly great pleasure to bring a painting back to Estonia, which in its day has journeyed thousands of kilometres to the west,\u2019 said Kunila. \u2018Laine Pant\u2019s family considered the painting so valuable that despite everything, they decided to take it with them as they fled. They kept it in their Toronto home in exemplary fashion for decades. Many thanks to them in retrospect.\u2019 According to Kunila, the aim of the Konrad M\u00e4gi Foundation is to fix up the painting in every respect and thereafter to make it available to researchers and the public.<\/p>\n

Piret Noorhani, Chief Archivist of the V\u00e4liseesti Muuseum, notes that this is the most valuable work of the VEMU art collection. \u2018Laine Pant would no doubt rejoice together with us over the event that the painting that belonged to their family has returned to its homeland, where large numbers of art lovers can see it.\u2019 Noorhani also hopes that M\u00e4gi\u2019s painting will find a distinguished place in the exhibition rooms of VEMU\u2019s new building when it returns to Canada.<\/p>\n

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A hitherto unknown painting by Konrad M\u00e4gi arrived from Canada this week. The work belonging to the collection of the V\u00e4liseesti Muuseum (VEMU, Museum of Estonians Abroad) has been brought to Estonia for five years at the initiative of the Konrad M\u00e4gi Foundation. In Estonia, it will be cleaned, restored, and introduced to researchers and… <\/p>\n

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