1 album/6 artworks – No other information known than that these initials were used as illustrator for the book Le Docteur au Fouet, published in 1932.
Arthur Chaplin (1869 – 1935) was a French painter and the son of the renowned Charles Joshua Chaplin, forged a markedly different artistic path from his father’s lavish, rococo‑styled nudes and dreamy portraits of women. While publicly celebrated for his modest botanical studies, Chaplin’s private oeuvre reveals a much more erotic, homoerotic dimension….
Adolphe Léon Willette (1857 – 1926) was a French painter, illustrator, caricaturist and lithographer who became one of the leading figures of the Belle Époque. Born in Châlons-sur-Marne, he studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and quickly made a name for himself with his elegant, often satirical drawings…
René Lelong (c. 1871–1933) taught at the Académie Julian, exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français, and painted sunlit élégantes for the covers of Femina and L’Illustration. His posters promised perfume and promenades; his brush traced parasols and parasail skirts with the soft precision of a society portraitist.In 1899, under…
Rudolf Schlichter (1890 – 1955) was a German artist and one of the most important representatives of the Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) movement. Schlichter was born in Calw, Württemberg. After an apprenticeship as an enamel painter at a Pforzheim factory he attended the School of Arts and Crafts in Stuttgart….
In publications for The Elmtown Chronicles, published by Brand X Publications I found three albums illustrated by Leon Kurtz. The publications were dated 1988, due to their rarity I decided to add these to the collection for educational purposes (and to make sure they did not get lost). Publications featured…
