David Ossipovitch Widhopff

David Ossipovitch Widhopff.
L'Homme à la pipe.
Sculpture of Widhopff by Chana Orloff (1924).

David Ossipovitch Widhopff (Russian - Давид Осипович Видгоф) (1867, Odessa - 1933, Saint-Clair-sur-Epte) was a Russian and French painter, caricaturist and poster artist.

Life

He gained his diploma at Odessa's royal academy before moving to Munich, where he joined the royal academy and became a student of Max Herterich, and then in August 1887 to Paris. There he entered the Académie Julian, where he studied under Tony Robert-Fleury and Jules Joseph Lefebvre. He exhibited at the Paris Salons of 1888, 1891 and 1893. He travelled to Brazil and set up a fine-arts school in the state of Pará. On his return to Paris, he visited Montmartre and became friends with Alfons Mucha and Léon Deschamps, editor of La Plume. He also met Hugues Delorme and Jules Roques at the Courrier français, giving rise to a fruitful collaboration with (among others) Willette to provide illustrations for it.

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Name	Widhopff
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Date of birth	1867
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Date of death	1933
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