Collection art and info from known and anonymous vintage artists
Max Kislinger (1895 – 1983) was an Austrian graphic artist, watercolorist, and folklorist whose erotic oeuvre stands out for its witty, earthy charm and masterful execution. Primarily working in the form of ex-libris (bookplates), often as woodcuts or hand-colored prints, Kislinger created highly personal and private erotic commissions that blended…
Adolphe Léon Willette (1857 – 1926) was a French painter, illustrator, caricaturist and lithographer who became one of the leading figures of the Belle Époque. Born in Châlons-sur-Marne, he studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and quickly made a name for himself with his elegant, often satirical drawings…
Fritz Erler (1868 – 1940) was a versatile German painter, graphic artist, illustrator, and designer whose work left a distinctive mark on the transition from late 19th-century academic art to the flowing elegance of Jugendstil (German Art Nouveau).Born in Frankenstein, Silesia (now Ząbkowice Śląskie, Poland), Erler trained at the Royal…
Sergei Eistenstein (1898 – 1948) is best known as the director of landmark films such as Battleship Potemkin and the theorist who invented montage as collision, Eisenstein also left behind hundreds of private erotic drawings. Executed in ink and pencil during the 1930s and 1940s, these works remain far less…
James Alfred Meese (1917 – 1971) was an American illustrator best known for his dramatic paperback cover art during the 1950s and 1960s. Little is publicly documented about his early life, formal education, or personal background, biographical sources consistently note the scarcity of information beyond his professional output. Meese’s career…
Albert von Keller was born on 27 April 1844 in the small Swiss town of Gais, in the canton of Appenzell, but he would spend most of his life in Munich and become one of the city’s best-loved painters. At the age of ten he moved there with his mother,…