Lydia Mei

Lydia Mei (2 July 1896 – 14 September 1965)^[1] was an Estonian artist who specialized in watercolors.

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Lydia Mei
Self portrait
Born	(1896-07-02)July 2, 1896 Liepāja, Courland Governorate, Russian Empire
Died	September 14, 1965(1965-09-14) (aged 69) Tallinn, Estonian SSR, Soviet Union
Nationality	Estonian
Known for	Painting
Movement	New Objectivity
Spouse	Anton Starkopf

Born in Liepāja, in the Courland Governorate of the Russian Empire (now Latvia), Lydia Mei was the middle child of the three daughters of an Estonian ship's captain who was born in Hiiumaa. All three sisters would become artists, with Lydia Mei and Natalie Mei achieving public prominence during the Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) period of Estonian art of the 1920s and sister Kristine Mei becoming a sculptor.

Mei studied architecture at the Petrograd Women's Polytechnic Institute until 1918. But she became famous as a watercolorist in late 1920s. She married sculptor Anton Starkopf and is occasionally credited with the name Lydia Mei-Starkopf. She died in 1965 in the capital city of Tallinn.

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Lydia Mei
Self portrait
Born	(1896-07-02)July 2, 1896 Liepāja, Courland Governorate, Russian Empire
Died	September 14, 1965(1965-09-14) (aged 69) Tallinn, Estonian SSR, Soviet Union
Nationality	Estonian
Known for	Painting
Movement	New Objectivity
Spouse	Anton Starkopf

Lydia Mei

Self portrait

Born

July 2, 1896

Liepāja, Courland Governorate, Russian Empire

Died

September 14, 1965 (aged 69)

Tallinn, Estonian SSR,
Soviet Union

Nationality

Estonian

Known for

Painting