Rudolf Gopas was a New Zealand artist and art teacher.
16 Facts About Rudolf Gopas
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Rudolf Gopas was born in Silute, Germany in 1913.
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Rudolf Gopas's parents were Pranas Gopas, a machinery merchant, and Marte Plauschin.
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Rudolf Gopas' birthplace was near Nidden, a fishing village with a popular artists colony.
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Rudolf Gopas studied painting at the Kaunas Art School from 1933 to 1938.
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Rudolf Gopas married Natalija Seeberg in 1942, in Ventspils, Latvia, and their daughter Sylvia was born in 1944.
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From 1944 to 1948, they lived in a refugee camp at Ehrwald, and Rudolf Gopas made a living producing portrait and landscape paintings.
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Once settled in New Zealand, Rudolf Gopas began to re-establish himself as a painter.
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Rudolf Gopas was a regular exhibitor with The Group until its cessation in 1977.
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In 1953, Rudolf Gopas left his wife and daughter in Dunedin and moved to Christchurch, where he worked for a photographic firm.
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In Christchurch, on 25 November 1958, Rudolf Gopas married the radio broadcaster Airini Nga Roimata Grennell.
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Rudolf Gopas was appointed as a temporary assistant lecturer in painting at the School of Fine Arts, University of Canterbury in 1959, and took up a permanent position in 1960.
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Rudolf Gopas's students included Philip Trusttum, Philippa Blair, Philip Clairmont, Vivien Bishop, Gavin Bishop, Tony Fomison, John Coley, Barry Cleavin and Kura Te Waru Rewiri.
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Rudolf Gopas quickly became disillusioned and returned to New Zealand.
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Rudolf Gopas made a partial recovery from this surgery before complications arose.
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On 23 July 1983, two weeks before the scheduled opening of the first exhibition dedicated to his life's work, Rudolf Gopas died of a heart attack caused by arteriosclerosis, at his home in Christchurch.