Collection art and info from known and anonymous vintage artists
~ 1867 – 1948 Ernst Gerhard was born in Landau in south-west Germany. He worked mostly in Munich. He exhibited in the Great Berlin Art Exhibition of 1909 with a dark painting of a group of armed men. He made erotic and a few bdsm artworks. Due to the rarity…
~ Date of birth unknown Eric Galton was an F/F spanking art illustrator. He made 8 illustrations for The Misfortunes of Colette (circa 1930, issued privately for subscribers only by Gargoyle Press), the english translation of the French spanking novel Les Malheurs de Colette by Aimé Van Rod, which was…
~ 1902 – 1964 Gerhard Georg August Gagelmann was the quintessential Weimar illustrator: sharp, confident, and always in demand. Gert Gagelmann graduated with distinction from Berlin’s Reimann School in 1921, the same year his work first appeared in Der Brummer. In September 1924, at age 22, he married fellow artist…
~ 1898–1965 Margit Gaál was a Hungarian illustrator whose evocative and daring works have cemented her place among the unsung heroines of early 20th-century erotic and fetish art. Born in 1898 in Uzhhorod, she grew up in a culturally rich region. The area was tumultuous and later saw borders shift…
~ 1887 – 1972 Léon Courbouleix illustrated spanking novels in the 1930s using the pseudonym J.X Dumoulin. His drawings are F/F, F/f and F/m. Besides spanking art, he also did some enema art. In the late 1930s Courbouleix wrote and illustrated two privately-printed limited-edition ‘memoires’ of the eponymous Suzon:’Suzon au…
~ Date of birth unknown Hata Deli is one of the most enigmatic and revered masters of vintage femdom illustration, a shadowy European (perhaps German) artist whose razor-sharp linework and unflinching visions of female supremacy defined an underground pinnacle of interwar erotic art. Active during the 1920s and 1930s, Deli…