Siddur Vadim Abramovich (1924-1986) - sculptor, an innovator, a graphic artist. A significant figure in Russian postwar art. Born in Dnepropetrovsk. He fought in the 1942-1944 years. After being seriously wounded, which caused disability at age 19, arrived in the capital, where in 1953 he graduated from the Moscow Higher School of Art and promyshelennoe ("Stroganovka"). He worked in Moscow.
Already in 1960, Vadim has developed an independent style Siddur in sculpture and drawing. Probably the memories of war have led to the choice of artist main idea of ​​his creative humanism, the triumph of good, the primacy of love, the value of human life and dignity. It is interesting that in tune with the idea, but completely different plastic means at the same time developed a good friend and colleague Siddur, another soldier, Neizvestny.
In the graphic works of the 1970s, to fully express an innovative, very recognizable Siddur plastic, the ideological basis of which the eastern guess archaic, Scythian sculpture, Byzantine techniques and Assyrian art.

Vadim Sidur created monuments with a core of humanistic idea, set in the U.S., Germany and Russia (for instance, the sculpture "Formula of Sorrow" in Tsarskoe Selo). Perhaps his most famous work is a monument 'monument to the victims of violence, "established in 1974 in the money residents of the West of the city of Kassel. And in 1979, in West Berlin was a statue of Siddur "Treblinka" - in memory of victims of the same name camp. Preserved evidence that the sculptor saw these works the most important in his work.

His artistic discovery early 1980s was the "coffin-art", is strongly associated with the name of the Siddur. Ominous name it owes its aesthetics - the sculptor of welded pipes and plumbing fittings sculptures that resemble human figures, which are packed in wooden boxes that mimic the coffins. In a coffin-art read a protest against the excessive development pressure, environmental degradation, ongoing tensions associated with the Cold War and arms race.
Since 1988, the Moscow State Museum operates Vadim Siddur.