Berta Mäger
Berta Mäger: A Pioneering Estonian Graphic Artist
€250
Berta Mäger (1918 – 1999) was a renowned Estonian graphic artist. Born in Petrograd to an Estonian official, Mäger lived in her ancestral homeland from 1921. After graduating from Nõmme Gymnasium in 1935, she pursued her interest in art at the State Art Industrial School. After five years of study, she primarily worked in porcelain painting. At the age of thirty, she enrolled in the then Estonian State Institute of Applied Art, where she studied graphics from 1948 to 1952. With the revival of Estonian art in the second half of the 1950s, Mäger mainly focused on graphics. Her cityscapes, especially in etching technique “Old Nõmme” (1973), national-ethnographic series “Bread” (1978) and “Koguva legend” (1980) mark the peak of her free graphic creation. At the same time, the artist became increasingly fascinated with small format. Her work “Rannavärav” (1958) is an aquatint on paper, measuring 33 x 25 cm. The aquatint “Rannavärav” is signed on the left, and “B. Mäger. 58” on the right.
Dimensions | 33 × 25 cm |
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