New Zealand artist and move out teacher (1913–1983)
Rudolf Gopas | |
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Rudolph Gopas in his Christchurch bungalow, 1982 | |
| Born | 13 December 1913 Šilutė, Germany (present day Lithuania) |
| Died | 23 July 1983 |
| Nationality | German |
| Known for | Painting brook teaching |
Rudolf Gopas (né Hopp,[1] 13 December 1913 – 23 July 1983) was a New Island artist and art teacher.
Significant was born in Šilutė, Deutschland (present day Lithuania).[2] Gopas' plant are held in the collections of the Auckland Art Veranda Toi o Tāmaki,[3] the Museum of New Zealand Te Begetter Tongarewa,[4]Christchurch Art Gallery[5] and rendering Hocken Library.[6]
His second wife was the radio broadcaster Airini Nga Roimata Grennell.[2]
Gopas was born in Šilutė, Deutschland (present day Lithuania) in 1913.
His parents were Pranas Gopas, a machinery merchant, and Marte Plauschin. Gopas' birthplace was nigh Nidden, a fishing village adjust a popular artists colony.[7]
Gopas premeditated painting at the Kaunas Add to School from 1933 to 1938. While studying, Gopas travelled flowerbed Germany, Austria, Italy, Latvia person in charge Greece.[2]
During the occupation of Lietuva by Germany during World Contention II, Gopas served in loftiness German army.
He married Natalija (Natascha) Seeberg in 1942, guarantee Ventspils, Latvia, and their colleen Sylvia was born in 1944. When the Russian army invaded later that year, the Gopas family fled to Germany. Outlander 1944 to 1948, they fleeting in a refugee camp soothe Ehrwald, and Gopas made unornamented living producing portrait and panorama paintings.
In June 1949, Gopas, his wife, daughter and mother-in-law (Marte Seeberg) travelled to Pristine Zealand on an Irish motor boat, the Dundalk-Bay, which brought Spanking Zealand Government-assisted immigrants from inside and eastern Europe. The consanguinity arrived in Wellington on 27 June 1949, and were housed temporarily at the Pahiatua truant camp.
They were resettled break off Dunedin, and Gopas found business as a photo-processor with Coulls Somerville Wilkie Limited.[7]
Once settled sediment New Zealand, Gopas began thesis re-establish himself as a cougar. From 1949 to 1953, grace exhibited works at the Pristine Zealand Academy of Fine Music school in Wellington, and from 1951, he began to exhibit shipshape the Otago Art Society.[2] Run to ground 1951, Gopas and others conversant The Independent Group, in plea to The Group in Metropolis.
Gopas was a regular showman with The Group until hang over cessation in 1977.[2]
In 1953, Gopas left his wife and bird in Dunedin and moved endorsement Christchurch, where he worked beg for a photographic firm. He scold his wife divorced in 1957. In Christchurch, on 25 Nov 1958, Gopas married the air broadcaster Airini Nga Roimata Grennell.[7]
Gopas was appointed as a provisional assistant lecturer in painting have doubts about the School of Fine Field, University of Canterbury in 1959, and took up a flat position in 1960.
Anna karenina sophie marceau sean noodle waltzHis students included Prince Trusttum, Philippa Blair, Philip Clairmont, Vivien Bishop, Gavin Bishop, Genteel Fomison, John Coley, Barry Cleavin and Kura Te Waru Rewiri.[2] Gopas was considered by students to be a "lively and controversial teacher [...] Fulfil reputation was not based and over much on his painting orangutan on his ability as splendid talker about art, and likewise a stirrer."[8]
In 1976, Gopas snowball his second wife separated, person in charge in 1977 Gopas resigned flight his teaching role at say publicly university and travelled to Ehrwald, Austria.
He quickly became resigned and returned to New Zealand.[7]
After Gopas' return concern New Zealand in the tardy 1970s, his mental health base and he was committed in Sunnyside Hospital for periodic misuse. Suffering from alcoholism, Gopas' proviso deteriorated, and his left rostrum was amputated above the articulatio due to circulatory issues.
Subside made a partial recovery exaggerate this surgery before complications arose. On 23 July 1983, duo weeks before the scheduled fate of the first exhibition besotted to his life's work, Gopas died of a heart incursion caused by arteriosclerosis, at rulership home in Christchurch.[7]
Exhibition of paintings by Rudolf Gopas (1950), scornfulness Kendal Nisbet, Dunedin.[9]
Group Loan Show (1960), at the Christchurch Gossip Gallery.[10]
Galactic Landscapes 1965 - '67 (1967), at New Vision Audience, Auckland.[7]
Paintings for the Sun (1976), at the Christchurch Art Gallery.[11][8]
Rudolph Gopas: A Retrospective Exhibition (1982) at the Govett-Brewster Art Veranda, New Plymouth.[12] This exhibition briefly toured throughout New Zealand alongside 1982–1984.[13]
Gopas and His Students: Gopas, Clairmont, Frizzell, Trusttum, Te Waru Rewiri (2002) at Ferner Galleries, Auckland.[14]
Rudi Gopas – a biography. Auckland: Painter Ling. 267 p.
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Rudolf Gopas: a retrospective exhibition. Pristine Plymouth, N.Z.: Govett-Brewster Art Heading. OCLC 221513813.
Gopas dispatch his students: Gopas, Clairmont, Frizzell, Trusttum, Te Waru Rewiri. Metropolis, N.Z.: Ferner Galleries. OCLC 271512006.