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for periodic treatment. Suffering from alcoholism, Gopas' condition deteriorated, and his left leg was amputated above the knee due to circulatory issues. He made a partial recovery from this surgery before complications arose. On 23 July 1983, two weeks before the scheduled opening of the first
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Ehrwald, Austria. He quickly became disillusioned and returned to New Zealand.
266:. Gopas was considered by his students to be a "lively and controversial teacher His reputation was not based so much on his painting as on his ability as a talker about art, and as a stirrer."
191:, and Gopas made a living producing portrait and landscape paintings. In June 1949, Gopas, his wife, daughter and mother-in-law (Marte Seeberg) travelled to New Zealand on an Irish boat, the
187:, Latvia, and their daughter Sylvia was born in 1944. When the Russian army invaded later that year, the Gopas family fled to Germany. From 1944 to 1948, they lived in a refugee camp at
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