Beautiful vintage illustrations of rope, restraints, captivity and elegant helplessness.
~ 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 the curriculum and later learned…
~ 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 historian Joseph W. Slade. Over…
~ 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 at the age of 17…
~  1882 – 1955 William Andrew Pogany (born Vilmos András Feichtmann (or Feuchtmann) was a prolific Hungarian illustrator of children’s and other books. He is best known for his pen and ink drawings of myths and fables. A large portion of Pogany’s work is described as Art Nouveau. Pogany’s artistic style is heavily fairy-tale orientated and…
