Roger Testu
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Roger Testu

~ 1913 – 2008 The French cartoonist Roger Testu, better known as Tetsu. He started his career as a painter and in the 1950s started drawing cartoons, while continuing to paint. His first cartoon was published in Noir et Blanc in 1951, and he worked…

Hans Braun
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Hans Braun

~ 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…

Max Klinger
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Max Klinger

~ 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…

Touko Valio Laaksonen
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Touko Valio Laaksonen

~ 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…

Raymond van Doren
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Raymond van Doren

~ 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…

Akira Kinoto
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Akira Kinoto

~ 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…