PAINTERS from Estonia

Top 3

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.

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 Tallinn (Reval), Livonia 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.

2. Konrad Mägi (1878 - 1925)

With an HPI of 51.56, Konrad Mägi is the 2nd most famous Estonian Painter.  His biography has been translated into 18 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.

3. Johann Köler (1826 - 1899)

With an HPI of 47.82, Johann Köler is the 3rd 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.