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1880 Kropinas, East Prussia - 1965 Rondebosch, Cape Town, South Africa. Known for: Expressionist figure, genre, landscape painting.
Domšaitis began and ended his life's journey in what civilization considers its backwaters: he was born on August 15,1880 in a small Lithuanian hamlet on the border with Germany near the Baltic Sea;... Read full biography
Domšaitis began and ended his life's journey in what civilization considers its backwaters: he was born on August 15,1880 in a small Lithuanian hamlet on the border with Germany near the Baltic Sea; he died on November 14, 1965 in Cape Town at the edge of the vast and desolate South African Karoo.... Read full biography
Domšaitis began and ended his life's journey in what civilization considers its backwaters: he was born on August 15,1880 in a small Lithuanian hamlet on the border with Germany near the Baltic Sea; he died on November 14, 1965 in Cape Town at the edge of the vast and desolate South African Karoo. Between these two polar points, over a span of 85 years, his life moved peripatetically in a pattern of war, exile, struggle, and discovery all too characteristic of 20th century personal histories.... Read full biography
Domšaitis began and ended his life's journey in what civilization considers its backwaters: he was born on August 15,1880 in a small Lithuanian hamlet on the border with Germany near the Baltic Sea; he died on November 14, 1965 in Cape Town at the edge of the vast and desolate South African Karoo. Between these two polar points, over a span of 85 years, his life moved peripatetically in a pattern of war, exile, struggle, and discovery all too characteristic of 20th century personal histories. After years of basking in the limelight of German Expressionism, Domšaitis retreated ever deeper into the wilderness, only to re-emerge — after his death — as an artist who most profoundly expressed one of the most "timelessly modern" themes: man's... Read full biography
Domšaitis began and ended his life's journey in what civilization considers its backwaters: he was born on August 15,1880 in a small Lithuanian hamlet on the border with Germany near the Baltic Sea; he died on November 14, 1965 in Cape Town at the edge of the vast and desolate South African Karoo. Between these two polar points, over a span of 85 years, his life moved peripatetically in a pattern of war, exile, struggle, and discovery all too characteristic of 20th century personal histories. After years of basking in the limelight of German Expressionism, Domšaitis retreated ever deeper into the wilderness, only to re-emerge — after his death — as an artist who most profoundly expressed one of the most "timelessly modern" themes: man's exile from society and civilization, his return to the Earth and Inner Self in search of Transcendence. "Basking in the limelight" is perhaps too... Read full biography
