Collection art and info from known and anonymous vintage artists
~ Date of birth unknown The illustrations from Hans Braun appeared in a special from Phoenix magazine. Hans Braun was described as a civil engineer from Munich in Germany, it was mentioned he went to a school where corporal punishment was an established part of the curriculum and later learned…
~ 1857 – 1920 Max Klinger was a German artist who produced significant work in painting, sculpture, prints and graphics, as well as writing a treatise articulating his ideas on art and the role of graphic arts and printmaking in relation to painting. He is associated with symbolism, the Vienna…
~ 1920 – 1991 Touko Valio Laaksonen, known by the pseudonym Tom of Finland, was a Finnish artist who made stylized highly masculinized homoerotic art, and influenced late 20th-century gay culture. He has been called the “most influential creator of gay pornographic images” by cultural historian Joseph W. Slade. Over…
~ 1906 – 1991 Raymond van Doren was a Belgian painter, graphic designer and art photographer. He studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels (1925-1928; with H. Van Haelen and A. Bastien) and with Isidore Opsomer at the National Higher Institute of Fine Arts in Antwerp. As…
~ 1924 – ? This artist seemed to have used several aliasnames which makes it very difficult to find art and info. Names known to be related: Akira Kito, Shizuna Kubo, Takeshi Kensho and perhaps Kito Akatsuki. Kinoto was born in 1924 and started painting at the age of 17…
~ 1881 -1963 Chevalier Fortunino Matania was an Italian artist noted for his realistic portrayal of World War I trench warfare and of a wide range of historical subjects. Fortunino Matania studied at his father’s studio, designing a soap advertisement at the age of 9 and exhibiting his first work at…