Collection art and info from known and anonymous vintage artists
George Grosz, born Georg Ehrenfried Groß, (1893 – 1959) was a German artist known especially for his caricatural drawings and paintings of Berlin life in the 1920s. He was a prominent member of the Berlin Dada and New Objectivity groups during the Weimar Republic. After his father’s death in 1900,…
Eric Stanton (1926 – 1999) was an American underground cartoonist and fetish art pioneer. While Stanton began his career as a bondage fantasy artist for Irving Klaw, the majority of his later work depicted gender role reversal and proto-feminist female dominance scenarios. Commissioned by Klaw starting in the late 1940s, his bondage…
William Hess Ward (1919–1998), affectionately known as Bill Ward, was a trailblazing American cartoonist and illustrator whose provocative “good girl” art captured the sultry spirit of mid-20th-century pin-up culture. Born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised in Ridgewood, New Jersey, Ward honed his craft at the Pratt Institute before diving…
Pierre Klossowski (1905 – 2001) was a French writer and artist whose Mannerist-inspired art explored homoerotism and sadomasochistic imagery. Though less well-known than his older brother Balthus, Klossowski has been the subject of a renewed critical interest following a 2015 retrospective exhibition at Gladstone Gallery in New York. Recalling the Surrealist…
Jacques le Tord (1911 – 1952 ?) seems to have been a painter from “Lyons School”, if the date of birth is correct I don’t know. There is really very little to find about this French artist. I found one bondage artwork and a serie with maid service (F/F) which…
Minomura Kou (1920 – 1992) played an important role in the formation of post-war SM culture. He did editorial work for early SM magazines such as Kitan Club, Uramado, SM Collector, Abu Hunter and SM Kitan. He was one of the principal editors of Kitan Club magazine and the founder of Uramado magazine….