Life
He was born in Ljubljana, in a progressive middle-class family. Josip had a younger brother Milan Vidmar, known as notable engineer and chess player, himself a writer, too. Their sister Meta Vidmar studied with the famous Mary Wigman in Dresden and upon returning to Ljubljana in 1930 established the first school of modern dance in Slovenia.
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