Julie Delcourt
5 albums/23 artworks –Latest Update: November 7, 2025 -> Created a page for this artist (4 artworks) For decades, the erotic watercolors and sketches attributed to “Julie Delcourt” have lived in the shadow of a single name: Gerhard Georg August Gagelmann. Auction houses, wikis, and collectors repeated the same line: Delcourt is Gagelmann’s pseudonym, a post-war private indulgence. The evidence for this theory? Stylistic overlap, shared themes, and the convenient absence of any biography for Julie herself. For me, the Gagelmann = Delcourt theory always felt like it was just off. When I study the signed sketches, I see the hand of a woman: soft, intimate, playful in a way his rigid Deco lines never were. Diving into Gagelmann’s life,…
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I love all your posts and follow you on fet too. As an FYI the need to sign in is a barrier. I had a WordPress blog a few years ago and it became very clear the platform was making it harder for a lot of folks who were not my diehards to engage…don’t have any great recommendations, but as I sit in a cafe in washington,DC at the moment and interested n this post… I decided to write this to you as it was easier and more direct than signing in. Thanks for your passion and work you do. Neil
Neil Richardson
Thank you for your kind words Neil. I can understand that the need to sign in can be a barrier. I need it however to avoid countless of spam responses. For your safety I removed the personal details you provided.
Hi Karen,
There have been several em’s lately where the art doesn’t appear in the email
“The linked image can’t be displayed. The file may have been corrupted” was part of the message in the window before I lost it.
Paul
Hello Paul, sorry to hear this. I had some troubles with featured images lately and changed some which might have resulted in that error.