Capri Landscape

Konrad Mägi (01.11.1878-15.08.1925)

1922-1923
Oil on canvas
61 x 69 cm

Konrad Mägi yearned time and again to go abroad. It has been recalled that Mägi’s so-called land of his dreams was Spain. He never made it there but the exoticism of Southern Europe strongly attracted him. But it was not until the early 1920’s that he could undertake a longer trip, which was his first since returning to his homeland in 1912. He planned a trip to Italy via Berlin, remaining abroad from October of 1921 until the autumn of 1922.
A new period arrived in Konrad Mägi’s creative work with this trip abroad, especially with the paintings completed in Italy or completed later in the studio on the basis of impressions from Italy. Upon his arrival, Mägi already sent a postcard in which he gave notice that he was “feeling excellent and the will to live and do something more – here I feel that life has a purpose.”
Mägi sent a postcard to Estonia in January of 1922 on which he wrote that “here in the near future I will travel south – perhaps to the island of Capri.” He arrived on the island in early March and wrote from there: “I arrived on Capri safe and sound. The island is divine.” He remained on Capri for about a month and completed some ten paintings there.