Career

Born on the Estonian island of Hiiumaa, Lydia Mei was the middle child of the three daughters of a ship"s captain. Mei studied architecture at the Petrograd Women"s Polytechnic Institute until 1918. She died in 1965 in the capital city of Tallinn.

Achievements

• 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. But she became famous as a watercolorist in late 1920s.