VIDGOF (Vidhopf) David Osipovich

May 5, 1867 (Odessa) - November 1933 (Saint-Klar-sur-Apt near Paris)

painter, graphic artist arts and crafts.

Biographical information about the wizard scarce.

received his education in 1880 at the Odessa Art School and the Munich Royal Academy of Arts. Around 1890 he left for Paris for a long time worked under contract with the popular press, in particular with the "Courier Française, for which the Reporter's sketches and cartoons. Engaged book graphics, around 1910 created the illustrations for the Spanish edition of The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Periodically Vidgofa drawings were published in the St. Petersburg magazine Ogonyok ».

after 1910 turned to painting and graphics, which became dominant in his subsequent works. I created decorative panels. He served as Chairman of the salon painters, comedians. Exhibited his work in the Salon d'Automne, Salon Independent and the Tuileries in Paris. In 1912 took part in the exhibition of Russian art in the gallery "Devambez».

In the 1920 - 1930, along with heavy machine works began to study paintings of interiors. Collaborated with the factory "Beauvais tapestries, for which created the sketches and cartoons. I successfully held several solo exhibitions in galleries in Paris "Blot", "Bernheim", "Veil" and others. Creativity Vidgofa been recognized in European art circles. The master himself was awarded several prizes, including the Legion of Honor.

Also known as a great collector of antiquities of French folk art.