Lydia Mei
Lydia Mei (2 July 1896 – 14 September 1965) was an Estonian artist who specialized in watercolors. Lydia Mei was born in Liepāja, in the Courland Governorate of the Russian Empire (now Latvia), Lydia Mei was the middle child of the three daughters of the Estonian navigator and hydrographer Johan Mey, who was born in Hiiumaa. All three sisters became artists: Lydia Mei and Natalie Mei achieved public prominence during the Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) period of Estonian art of the 1920s, and their sister Kristine Mei became a sculptor.
Lydia Mei
- Name
- Lydia Mei
- Born
- 2 July 1896
- Birthplace
- Liepāja, Courland Governorate, Russian Empire
- Died
- 14 September 1965
- Place of death
- Tallinn, then part of Estonian SSR, Soviet Union
- Education
- Petrograd Women's Polytechnic Institute
- Field
- Painting
- Movement
- New Objectivity
- Spouse
- Anton Starkopf
- Nationality
- Russian Empire · Estonia · Soviet Union
- Occupation
- painter · watercolorist · illustrator · artist · exlibrist
- Languages
- Estonian
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Lydia Mei (2 July 1896 – 14 September 1965) was an Estonian artist who specialized in watercolors. Lydia Mei was born in Liepāja, in the Courland Governorate of the Russian Empire (now Latvia), Lydia Mei was the middle child of the three daughters of the Estonian navigator and hydrographer Johan Mey, who was born in Hiiumaa. All three sisters became artists: Lydia Mei and Natalie Mei achieved public prominence during the Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) period of Estonian art of the 1920s, and their sister Kristine Mei became a sculptor.
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Mei studied architecture at the Petrograd Women's Polytechnic Institute until 1918. However, she became prominent as a watercolorist in the late 1920s. She married the sculptor Anton Starkopf and is occasionally cited with the name Lydia Mei-Starkopf. She died in 1965 in the capital city of Tallinn.
The recorded working language is Estonian. The field of work recorded is painting. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are still life. Work by Lydia Mei is recorded in the collections of Art Museum of Estonia and Huis van het boek.
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• Name — Lydia Mei • Born — 2 July 1896 • Birthplace — Liepāja, Courland Governorate, Russian Empire • Died — 14 September 1965 • Place of death — Tallinn, then part of Estonian SSR, Soviet Union • Education — Petrograd Women's Polytechnic Institute • Field — Painting • Movement — New Objectivity • Spouse — Anton Starkopf
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1896
Lydia Mei born at Hiiumaa.
1965
Lydia Mei died at Tallinn.
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Hiiumaa.
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