1 album/6 artworks – R. Planitz was a (probably German) spanking artist who worked, presumably in the 1920s, in the genre of female spanking art (girl and women spankees), it is also possible that Planitz is the same artist as N. Carman.
The Fredi Trilogy is a rare and provocative series of three semi-autobiographical novels that trace the awakening of same-sex desire in a repressive society. Published by the Parisian house Librairie Artistique( known for its scandalous “kitsch novels”) the books were disguised as a “study in sexual inversion” to navigate censorship.For…
Marcel Vèrtes (1895 – 1961) was a French costume designer and illustrator of Hungarian-Jewish origins. He won two Academy Awards (Best Art Direction and Best Costume Design) for his work on the 1952 film Moulin Rouge. He was born and raised in Budapest, during the interwar years he lived in Paris and when many artists fled Europe…
Feodor Stepanovich Rojankovsky, better known as Rojan (1891–1970), was a Russian émigré illustrator who excelled in two seemingly opposite worlds: the gentle, colorful illustrations for children’s books and the sensual, often explicitly erotic art for adults. Born on December 24, 1891, in Mitava (present-day Jelgava, Latvia) in the Russian Empire,…
Edouard Chimot (1880 – 1959) was a French artist, illustrator and editor whose career reached its peak in the 1920s in Paris, through the publication of fine quality art-printed books. As artist his own work occupies a characteristic place, but as editor also his role was extremely important in bringing together some…
Jean Macorlan (1882 – 1970) was a French novelist and songwriter. Jean Macorlan is presumably an alias for Pierre Dumarchey, who was better known under the pseudonym Pierre Mac Orlan. It is also possible that this name was given to Pierre his brother: Jean Dumarchay. Jean told Pascal Pia that…
Hugh Joseph Ward (1909 – 1945) was an American illustrator known for his cover art for pulp magazines. He is noted especially for his paintings for Spicy Mystery, Spicy Detective, and other titles published by Harry Donenfeld in the “spicy” genre. He also painted definitive images of popular radio characters…