Vu Cao Dam
(1908 - 2000)
Vu Cao Dam was active/lived in Viet Nam, France. Vu Cao Dam is known for modernist figure, landscape and bird painting, portrait bust sculpture.
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VU CAO DAM (Vietnamese, 1908-2000).
Painter and sculptor Vu Cao Dam was born in Hanoi in 1908. He attended the Ece des Beaux Arts de Indochine between 1926 and 1931. In 1932 he obtained a scholarship to further his studies as a sculptor in France. Eventually he specialized in painting. His painting during this period was mainly on silk, and showed the influence of ancient Chinese art.
In July 1946 Vu Cao Dam executed a bust of Ho Chi Minh at the Fountainbleu Conference held in Paris. After the French re-occupied Vietnam, the portrait bust was hidden at the house of a French farmer who was a member of the French Communist Party. In 1975, after the liberation of South Viet Nam the bust was reclaimed by Vu Cao Cam's artist daught ... Displaying 750 of 1062 characters.