About Theodore Nicolai Lukits

  • Biography

    Note from Norm Davies:

    When he was 94 years old I went to the Jonathan club in Los Angeles which
    held a retrospective of his work. He was a long time member of that club and
    decided to leave his painting to them. I met him and saw his range of work.
    He was a traditionalist. There was no Cubism or Surrealism or anything
    abstract.
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    Known for his portraits of celebrities in Los Angeles, Theodore Lukits was born in Temesvar, Hungary and came to the United States in 1898. He studied at Washington University and later at the Art Institute of Chicago with Wellington Reynolds and Alphonse Mucha. In 1922, he moved to Los Angeles and established the Lukits...

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