Collection art and info from known and anonymous vintage artists
Georg Scholz (1890 – 1945) was a German painter, member of the New Objectivity movement. Scholz was born in Wolfenbüttel and had his artistic training at the Karlsruhe Academy, where his teachers included Hans Thoma and Wilhelm Trübner. He later studied in Berlin under Lovis Corinth. In 1919 Scholz became a member of…
Little is known about Juan del Lapiz, a pseudonym that translates to “John of the Pencil” in Spanish, hinting at the artist’s skill with delicate line work. The artist was active circa 1930, a period when illustrated erotica flourished in Europe, particularly in France. Del Lapiz’s anonymity was likely intentional,…
German painter and printmaker Hartmut von Altrock (1931 – 2014) born in Breslau and later based in Berlin and the French Auvergne, is best known to the wider art world for his delicate cityscapes, intimate interiors, and flower still-lifes.Under the pseudonym Max von Strauch, however, he created a parallel and…
François d’Albignac (1903 – 1958) was born in to a well-off French family. From 1921 to 1925, he studied at Paris’s School of Decorative Arts under Pierre Seguin, picking up awards for his drawings and watercolors. His early work captured the glamour of Paris in the 1920s—fashion, parties, the whole…
Gaston Barret (1910 – 1991) entered the world in 1910, stepping into the electric haze of the 1920s, a decade where art pulsed with both promise and shadow. The early 20th century’s bold innovations ripened during his youth, as the 1920s and ’30s saw trailblazing artists rise against a backdrop…
Johannes Hendrikus (Joop) Moesman (1909 – 1988) was a Dutch surreal painter, calligrapher, typographer and type designer. Initially he worked as a draftsman at the Dutch Railways. His father, Johannes Anthonius Moesman, was a draftsman, lithographer, stone printer and amateur photographer. The self-taught Moesman visited Galerie Nord, run by the…