Biederer inspired Delcourt
In the enormous collection from Gert Gagelmann Julie Delcourt, I recognized a few artworks, they were inspired by photos from Biederer Studio.


In the enormous collection from Gert Gagelmann Julie Delcourt, I recognized a few artworks, they were inspired by photos from Biederer Studio.


Maurice François Alfred Martin van Miële (1863 – 1926) was born in Boulogne sur Seine. He used the alias Martin van Maele. It could also be written as van Maële and A van Troizem. He illustrated for Authors such as Charles Carrington and Jean Fort. He worked in Brussels and…
While sorting through the archives I stumbled on a pair of pieces that seemed to be twins at first glance, yet each carried a whisper of a different hand. The first image in this collection reads like a personal notebook entry rather than a polished publication. Rendered in stark black‑and‑white…
The Pearl: A Magazine of Facetiae and Voluptuous Reading was a pornographic monthly magazine issued in London during the mid-Victorian period by William Lazenby. It was closed down by the British authorities for violating contemporary standards of obscenity. The Pearl ran for eighteen issues from July 1879 to December 1880,…
The artist using the name Gigi Amaldi was most likely an Italiant immigrant who moved to Argentina around 1940. There are nearly no artworks known from this artist, but there is this mysterious album titled La Verdadera Historia de la Humanidad. It shows art created somewhere between the 1930/40’s. In…
Lise fessée is a French spanking novel by Pierre Dumarchey. It was first published in 1910 by Jean Fort, Paris.The title “Lise fessée” translates to “Spanked Lise”. The novel’s subtitle “Roman sur la flagellation à l’école et dans le monde” translates to “A novel of flagellation at school and in…