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Painter whose popular portraits and still-life paintings include 1907's "The Golden Birch Tree." After losing over 120 of his paintings in WWI, he returned to Lithuania to teach art classes.He became a professor of art and published a textbook that detailed different painting techniques.He and Edouard Manet were both associated with Impressionism.
BEFORE FAMEHe was expelled from the Gymnasium of Jelgava, Latvia, which he attended from 1890 until 1895, after he was caught drawing on a stove.
PERSONAL LIFEHe was raised in the village of Miskine, Lithuania.
FUN FACTSPainter Petras Kalpokas were born on Wednesday, in a leap year, birthstone is Aquamarine, the seaon was Spring in the Chinese year of , it is 88 days until Petras Kalpokas next birthday.
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