The Most Famous

PAINTERS from Estonia

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This page contains a list of the greatest Estonian Painters. The pantheon dataset contains 2,023 Painters, 3 of which were born in Estonia. This makes Estonia the birth place of the 45th most number of Painters behind Bulgaria, and Cuba.

Top 7

The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Estonian Painters of all time. This list of famous Estonian Painters is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

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1. Michael Sittow (1459 - 1525)

With an HPI of 58.28, Michael Sittow is the most famous Estonian Painter.  His biography has been translated into 26 different languages on wikipedia.

Michael Sittow (c. 1469 – 1525), also known as Master Michiel, Michel Sittow, Michiel, Miguel, and several other variants, was a painter from Reval (Tallinn), now capital of Estonia, who was trained in the tradition of Early Netherlandish painting. For most of his life, Sittow worked as a court portrait painter, for Isabella of Castile and her Habsburg relatives in Spain and the Netherlands, and other prominent royal houses. He is considered one of the most important Netherlandish painters of the era.

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2. Eugen Dücker (1841 - 1916)

With an HPI of 52.02, Eugen Dücker is the 2nd most famous Estonian Painter.  His biography has been translated into 17 different languages.

Eugen Gustav Dücker (also Eugène Gustav Dücker; 10 February [O.S. 29 January] 1841 – 6 December 1916) was a Baltic German painter, in the Romantic style, associated with the Düsseldorfer Malerschule.

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3. Amandus Adamson (1855 - 1929)

With an HPI of 51.42, Amandus Adamson is the 3rd most famous Estonian Painter.  His biography has been translated into 18 different languages.

Amandus Heinrich Adamson (12 November 1855 near Paldiski, Estonia, then Russian Empire — 26 June 1929 in Paldiski, Estonia) was an Estonian sculptor and painter.

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4. Johann Köler (1826 - 1899)

With an HPI of 49.39, Johann Köler is the 4th most famous Estonian Painter.  His biography has been translated into 17 different languages.

Johann Köler (8 March 1826 – 22 April 1899) was a leader of the Estonian national awakening and a painter. He is considered as the first professional painter of the emerging nation. He distinguished himself primarily by his portraiture and to a lesser extent by his landscape paintings. Some of his most notable pictures depict the Estonian rural life in the second half of the 19th century.

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5. Konrad Mägi (1878 - 1925)

With an HPI of 49.09, Konrad Mägi is the 5th most famous Estonian Painter.  His biography has been translated into 19 different languages.

Konrad Vilhelm Mägi (1 November 1878 – 15 August 1925) was an Estonian painter, primarily known for his landscape work. He was one of the most colour-sensitive Estonian painters of the first decades of the 20th century, and Mägi's works on motifs of the island of Saaremaa are the first modern Estonian nature paintings.

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6. Ants Laikmaa (1866 - 1942)

With an HPI of 47.05, Ants Laikmaa is the 6th most famous Estonian Painter.  His biography has been translated into 16 different languages.

Ants Laikmaa (5 May 1866 – 19 November 1942) was an Estonian painter.

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7. Paul Raud (1865 - 1930)

With an HPI of 46.81, Paul Raud is the 7th most famous Estonian Painter.  His biography has been translated into 16 different languages.

Paul Raud (22 October [O.S. 10 October] 1865 in Kirikuküla, Viru-Jaagupi Parish – 22 November 1930 in Tallinn) was an Estonian painter.

People

Pantheon has 7 people classified as Estonian painters born between 1459 and 1878. Of these 7, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased Estonian painters include Michael Sittow, Eugen Dücker, and Amandus Adamson. As of April 2024, 4 new Estonian painters have been added to Pantheon including Eugen Dücker, Amandus Adamson, and Ants Laikmaa.

Deceased Estonian Painters

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Overlapping Lives

Which Painters were alive at the same time? This visualization shows the lifespans of the 6 most globally memorable Painters since 1700.