Gaston Smit
Gaston Smit 1922 - 1925 ←
Gaston Smit 1922 - 1925 ←
There is almost no information known for this artist other than that he (or she) illustrated for Irving Klaw.It is mentioned that this artist might have been of African descent. There is also a rumor that suggests the artist was in the illustration staff at comics published Fiction House, famous…
~ 1872 – 1898 Aubrey Beardsley was an English illustrator and author. His drawings in black ink, influenced by the style of Japanese woodcuts, emphasized the grotesque, the decadent, and the erotic. He was a leading figure in the Aesthetic movement which also included Oscar Wilde and James A. McNeill…
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…
~ 1856 – 1918 Gottfried Sieben was born on may 16th 1856 in StockerauHe used the Pseudonym Archibald Smith, he was an Austrian painter, author and illustrator for many newspaper, magazines and erotic. He was student at the Vienna Acadamy, from 1880 illustrator at the satiric weekly magazine Floh and…
Jules Fontanez (1875 – 1918) was a painter and illustrator from Geneva. At the age of fifteen he became an apprentice wood engraver at the School of Industrial Arts. He practiced caricatures and contributed to various newspapers such as Sapajou and Passe Partout. At the same time he received his…
It’s always interesting to see how kinky people already were on the beginning of the last century.
Yes it surely it. And it’s amazing how much there is to find!