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Varez is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Dietrich Varez (1939–2018), American printmaker-painter *E. F. Varez Emmanuel François Varez called E. F. Varez (17 October 1780 – 8 September 1866) was an early 19th-century French playwright and novelist. Born in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, Varez was a dramaturge at the Théâtre de l'Ambigu-Comique and t ... (1780–1866), French playwright and novelist See also * Vare {{Short pages monitor ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Dietrich Varez
Dietrich Varez (28 March 1939 – 14 August 2018) was an iconoclastic printmaker-painter. His work is among the most widely recognized of any artist in Hawaii. A long-time resident of the Hawaii Island, Big Island, he is known primarily for scenes of Hawaiian mythology and of traditional Hawaiian life and stylized designs from nature. Early life Varez was born in Berlin, Germany, at the start of World War II. His father was Friedrich Donat, an architect and engineer of Lithuanian heritage, whom Varez has said was a Nazi who worked on military construction. His mother, Ursula, was a Polish-Swedish translator of English. 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". Ursula divorced Donat in 1947. In 1948, she married U.S. Army Sgt. Manuel Varez, who adopted her sons, Dietrich and Christian, and brought the family to his home in Oahu, Hawaii. Dietrich graduated from Pre ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |