Dietrich varez biography of michael myers

Dietrich Varez 28 March — 14 August [ 1 ] was an iconoclastic printmaker-painter. His work is among the most widely recognized of any artist in Hawaii.

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His father was Friedrich Donat, an architect and engineer of Lithuanian heritage, whom Varez has said was a Nazi who worked on military construction. As the war ended, Varez's father left his family to fend for themselves and he went into hiding from occupation forces, a period Varez has said was "pure misery". In , she married U. Army Sgt.

Manuel Varez, who adopted her sons, Dietrich and Christian, and brought the family to his home in Oahu, Hawaii. He enlisted in the U. Army in , earning the rank of second lieutenant, and then served in the Army Reserves in Honolulu while earning a master's degree in English at the University of Hawaii. He married Linda Denneberg, a native of California who had come to Hawaii as a competitive surfer and stayed to become an artist, in Varez, with his wife and recently born son, moved to the Big Island in after purchasing a 9-acre 36, m 2 property near Kilauea Volcano , sight unseen.

For several years, the family lived in cabins at the Hawaii Volcano National Park , or in a tent on their land, supported by Varez's groundskeeping job at a nearby golf course or as a bartender for the Volcano House , the lodge in the National Park overlooking the caldera of Kilauea Volcano.

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He supplemented his earnings by carving firewood scraps with the image of Pele , Goddess of the volcano, which he sold at the bar, and later he made woodblock prints, mostly giving them away but selling some in the lodge gift shop. In , the nonprofit Volcano Art Center opened, providing increased visibility for his work. Varez prints became increasingly popular, eventually allowing Varez to earn a living as an artist.

Varez has published more than wood- and linoleum-block prints. His work is informed by graphic interpretations of traditional Polynesian designs, as seen, for instance, in Hawaiian quilts , and is especially rich in imagery from the Hawaiian rainforest.