Sigismunds Vidbergs (Latvia) was born in a civil servant’s family. From 1904-1905, he studied at the Johans Valters studio in Jelgava. In 1908, he moved to St. Petersburg and continued his education at the Baron Stieglitz Central Technical Drawing School, from which he graduated with honours in 1915, winning a scholarship for studies abroad. However, due to the outbreak of the First World War, this scholarship was never used.

Vidbergs then served in the Red Army’s 12th escadrille of aviation destroyers and this fact gave Vidbergs’ art one of its recurring themes. In 1921, he returned to Latvia. He had already taken up teaching in Russia and later worked at the drawing and painting studio of the Riga Folk High School. During the academic year of 1940-1941, he was invited to Latvian Academy of Arts  as a tutor of senior classes in the graphic arts workshop.

In 1944, he and his family fled to Germany as refugees and emigrated to the United States in 1949.

The artist chose very different settings for his erotic themes all through his creative work – there are scenes from the Old Testament, from the antique world, ancient Indian and Arabian literature masterpieces, and also from contemporary works.

Drawings, pictures, bookplates, sketches of porcelain paintings and caricatures. You will find a touch of exquisite taste, cool elegance and erotic glamour in all of them. Ink, gouache, and pencil on paper, each approximately, each signed lower right. Sigismunds Vidsbergs was a well known illustrator and designer in Riga who emigrated to the UnitedStates in 1949. He specialized in stylistic drawings done in indian ink.