Dark vintage erotica: twisted, mysterious and often disturbing fetish drawings.
Max Carl Friedrich Beckmann (1884 – 1950) was a German painter, draftsman, printmaker, sculptor, and writer. Although he is classified as an Expressionist artist, he rejected both the term and the movement.In the 1920s, he was associated with the New Objectivity (Neue Sachlichkeit). This was an outgrowth of Expressionism. It…
Beresford Egan (1905 – 1984) was a satirical draughtsman, painter, novelist, actor, costume designer and playwright. He was born in London but grew up in South Africa following a family move when he was five years old. He returned to London in July 1926 after spending two years as a…
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…
Hans Henrik Lerfeldt (1946 – 1989) was a Danish painter and graphic artist. He was educated at Academy of Fine Arts graphic school 1965-70 below Palle Nielsen. Hans Henrik Lerfeldt was an adoptive child and entered a very religious home. His adoptive father was a priest, and often left him…
George Grosz, born Georg Ehrenfried Groß, (1893 – 1959) was a German artist known especially for his caricatural drawings and paintings of Berlin life in the 1920s. He was a prominent member of the Berlin Dada and New Objectivity groups during the Weimar Republic. After his father’s death in 1900,…
Pierre Klossowski (1905 – 2001) was a French writer and artist whose Mannerist-inspired art explored homoerotism and sadomasochistic imagery. Though less well-known than his older brother Balthus, Klossowski has been the subject of a renewed critical interest following a 2015 retrospective exhibition at Gladstone Gallery in New York. Recalling the Surrealist…