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Herluf Bidstrup
Херлуф Бидструп
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10 September 1912 - 26 December 1988
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Herluf Bidstrup - Herluf Bidstrup (10.09.1912-26.12.1988) Born in
Berlin, Germany. Father painter, in his spare time he was engaged in painting.
Herlouf Bidstrup was two years old when the First World War began.
Famine, lack of housing, Spanish. The pencil helped me forget.
of the difficulties of life.” Herlouf's drawings were laughable.
He soon became convinced that laughter was his ally. Ten years in high school,
Successfully passed the exams. Even before graduation, he wrote in oil paints.
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Herluf Bidstrup - Herluf Bidstrup (10.09.1912-26.12.1988) Born in
Berlin, Germany. Father painter, in his spare time he was engaged in painting.
Herlouf Bidstrup was two years old when the First World War began.
Famine, lack of housing, Spanish. The pencil helped me forget.
of the difficulties of life.” Herlouf's drawings were laughable.
He soon became convinced that laughter was his ally. Ten years in high school,
Successfully passed the exams. Even before graduation, he wrote in oil paints.
In the evening he attended an art school where he studied.
geometry, projection, laws of perspective, painted with coal plaster
busts. In his spare time he painted people in motion. In my pocket
I always had a small notebook, and I filled it in with everything I could find.
He made sketches of people on the street, on the tram, etc. From 1931 to 1935 he studied at the Royal Academy of Arts in Copenhagen. Then we need to
I had to find my own writing style. At one time he was fond of abstractionism.
The first series of drawings that the artist managed to place in
The anti-fascist magazine Kulturkampen was a series of cartoons about Hitler.
“Under the drawings were printed quotes from Hitler’s speech. This series was
It is placed under the general heading: “Bidstrup drawings. Text by Adolf
Hitler. After this first episode, the same magazine was published.
Many other anti-fascist drawings by Herluf Bidstrup. After
After graduating from the Academy, it was difficult to find a job. Artist
worked in advertising, participation in the design of sports competitions,
Roar. Drawings in Kulturkampen contributed to the fact that he was invited
Publish daily series (70 drawings were made)
The conservative bourgeois newspaper "Berlingske Tidende". Then came in.
offer of cooperation with the government agency - newspaper
The Sosial-Democratic Party took a clear anti-fascist position.
Started with drawings of vignettes, theatrical ads in this newspaper,
Then the artist was asked to place satirical drawings on
political issues. Great success were drawings-stories without words in
Sunday newspapers. During World War II, Herluf
Bidstrup collaborated with the underground anti-fascist newspaper Land Og
Folk and continued to work after the war. In this newspaper, in the first years after the occupation, the artist drew caricatures of traitors to the homeland, collaborators.
Then the satire was directed against the Marshall Plan, against the arsonists.
Cold War, against NATO, against capitalist exploiters
and their Social Democratic henchmen against the militarization of the West
Germany, against the new Wehrmacht, the atomic bomb, etc. But times and times
Politics changed, and the Burois newspapers turned their backs on the artist. They were.
Problems even with the release and sale of artist albums on everyday topics.
The artist was isolated. At this time, great success in countries
The Eastern Bloc and China had Herlouf Bidstrup drawings.
carried out during his trip to Eastern Europe. Large
The artist receives recognition in the USSR, where he is awarded the International
The Lenin Prize is awarded with the Order of the Red Banner of Labor.