Matti Milius

Matti Milius (November 10, 1945 – June 3, 2015) was an Estonian art collector. He lived in Tartu and was one of the biggest collectors of Estonian and Baltic contemporary art and a curator of art exhibitions. Milius owned a large collection of bookplates, graphics, and paintings consisting of more than 1,200 works. From 1968 onward, Milius exhibited works from his collection at exhibitions in Estonia and abroad.

Education and early years Matti Milius attended Tartu High School No. 1 for Young Workers (now ), where he graduated in 1967. He attended the , where he majored in librarianship, and he graduated in 1969. In 1966, Milius met the art collector Mart Lepp, at whose initiative he became interested in older Estonian graphics.

In the 1980s and 1990s, Matti Milius also worked as a performance artist and poetry performer, being one half of the poetry duo Matti Moguči and Matti Moguchi (Priidu Beier wrote poetry for Moguči and Albert Trapeež for Moguchi).

In 2006, Matti Milius organized an exhibition festival in Tartu and Kaunas, where the works of dozens of Kaunas artists were shown in Tartu and those of Tartu artists in Kaunas. Before his death, Milius mainly focused on contemporary art from Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Armenia.

Affiliations Matti Milius was a member of the and Estonian Artists' Association.