~ 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…
Art Gallery
Collection art and info from known and anonymous vintage artists
Boris Bergson
~ 1927 – 1996 Boris Bergson most likely started as illustrator for Irving Klaw’s Nutrix serie. His art does show some resemblance with the works from Gene Bilbrew and Eric Stanton but it is obvious the artist had his own style. Boris used the pseudonym…
Milivoj Uzelac
~ 1897 – 1977 Milivoj Uzelac was a influential painter in the Zagreb modern art scene in the 1920s and 30s. Milivoj Uzelac was born in Mostar to a Serbian family, which was then part of Austria-Hungary. In 1903, the family moved to Banja Luka.…
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
~ 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
~ 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
~ 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
~ 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…