~ 1892 – 1942 Bruno Schulz was born in Drohobycz (now Drogobych, Ukraine), a small town in Galicia, into a Jewish family. The area was then part of the Austrian Empire. His father run a clothing shop, but left it to the care of his…
Dark
Dark vintage erotica: twisted, mysterious and often disturbing fetish drawings.
Sadie Mazo
~ Date of birth unknown ~ Sadie Maso (sometimes spelled Sadie Mazo) remains one of the most fascinating figures in the underground world of 1930s–1950s French erotic illustration. Sadie was a pseudonym, likely belonging to a man (though I’d love it if a real femme…
LanyR
~ Date of birth unknown At first I had this paged stored as ‘Lany-R and Sao-Chang’, it seems these were two illustrators (or perhaps the same I could not determine for sure). So I decided to create a page for both, perhaps I will discover…
Luc Lafnet
~ 1889 -1939 Luc Lafnet was born in 1889 in Liege, he died in 1939 in Rueil-Malmaison (Hauts-de-Seine). Luc Lafnet was a painter, printmaker and illustrator in France. He lived in Paris from 1923 till 1939, his works approached the abstract art. He used the…
Ernst Gerhard
~ 1867 – 1948 Ernst Gerhard was born in Landau in south-west Germany. He worked mostly in Munich. He exhibited in the Great Berlin Art Exhibition of 1909 with a dark painting of a group of armed men. He made erotic and a few bdsm…
Paul Emile Becat
~ 1885 – 1960 Paul-Emile Becat was a French painter, printmaker, and engraver who won first prize at the Prix de Rome in 1920. He trained under Gabriel Ferrier and François Flameng, and made his debut at the Salon de Paris as early as 1913.…
Franz von Bayros
~ 1866 – 1924 Marquis Franz von Bayros was born in Zagreb in 1866, as the son of a Spanish noblemanOne of his erotic portfolios, ‘Erzahlungen vom Toilettentisch’ (‘Tales from the Dressing Table’), caused a courtcase and made Von Bayros famous. In 1911, the Munich…