Collection art and info from known and anonymous vintage artists
~ 1898 – 1963 Laffitte was a Spanish cartoonist and illustrator. His biography is quite incomplete. He was born in Barcelona where his father, Casimiro Canalejo Soler, an official in the Telegraph Corps, had settled when he remarried Carmen Sierra Laffitte in 1894. When she became a widow ten years later,…
~ 1899 – 1988 The pseudonym Marilac was used by Italian artists Mario Laboccetta for who I was unable to find a proper bio in English. So I tried to translate from Italian. He was born in Naples and became famous in Paris. During the 1920/1930’s he worked as illustrator…
~ 1891 – After 1935 Born in Berlin, Germany, he was a visionary illustrator and artist whose provocative works captured the underground allure of FemDom and BDSM themes during the Weimar era. Also known by his birth name Paul Klamm and the enigmatic pseudonym C. Soulier, Kamm’s oeuvre, marked by intricate watercolor drawings…
~ 1918 – 1964 Pseudonym for a Swiss/French Artist, referred to as ‘Swiss Jim’ (so this artist might not be confused with the other ‘German’ Jim)He also used the pseudonym Gil. There is nearly nothing known for this artist, a collector knew he was originally from Geneva, he worked as…
~ 1883 – 1960 There is not much to be found about artist Gaston Hoffman who’s most famous artworks is a satire on medical subjects and for ‘Scandale au Pictoire’. It shows a panel of judges “scandalized” by something they are viewing. I assume it is a picture of some…