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Gopas, Rudolf
(b Silute, Lithuania, 13 Dec 1913; d Christchurch, NZ, 23 July 1983). New Zealand painter of Lithuanian birth. Trained in a Lithuanian art school, he arrived in New Zealand as a refugee in 1949. He first produced realistic landscapes but by the mid-1950s the expressionist style for which he is best known was established in works such as Landscape (1960; Christchurch, NZ, Canterbury Lib.). He was an important teacher, lecturing in painting at the University of Canterbury for 18 years from 1959. He was a fundamental influence on what became seen as a school of expressionist artists based in Christchurch, including Philip Clairmont (1949–84), Tony Fomison and Philip Trusttum (b 1940).
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