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Pranas Domšaitis (1880–1965), born in a small hamlet on the border of Prussia and Lithuania, “developed a distinctive style of painting that fused Lithuanian folkloric art traditions – replete with a mystical quality – with an interest in both early ecclesiastical art and an emerging European Expressionism” (source). He garnered sufficient recognition to be included in the Nazi government’s notorious Degenerate Art exhibition in 1937. After World War II he moved to Cape Town, South Africa, where he spent the rest of his life. His paintings on religious themes are regarded as among his most powerful.
