Konrad Mägi Landscape with a House with a Red Roof

For many years since World War II this painting was not in Estonia but in Sweden, in the collection of the art historian Ervin Pütsep, from where it returned to Estonia in 2024. 

The painting was presumably made in Saaremaa, because there are other works with a similar choice of motifs and composition that are known to have been made there: large glacial boulders rendered with special attention to colourful tufts of moss and junipers growing nearby. Flowers have been scattered into the surrounding greenery, too, but we also see some rather modern houses, which are not typical of the Saaremaa period, and a peaceful cloudless sky. The house with a red roof may refer to the building next to Kihelkonna Church, which Mägi also depicted in the painting Landscape with a Church (Art Museum of Estonia). Since Mägi did not move much when looking for motifs outdoors and preferred to work in a smaller radius, it may be presumed that the surroundings depicted in this painting found their way into other works, too.