Explore the niche world of vintage enema fetish and themes of submission and purification.
Feodor Stepanovich Rojankovsky, better known as Rojan (1891–1970), was a Russian émigré illustrator who excelled in two seemingly opposite worlds: the gentle, colorful illustrations for children’s books and the sensual, often explicitly erotic art for adults. Born on December 24, 1891, in Mitava (present-day Jelgava, Latvia) in the Russian Empire,…
Fritz Erler (1868 – 1940) was a versatile German painter, graphic artist, illustrator, and designer whose work left a distinctive mark on the transition from late 19th-century academic art to the flowing elegance of Jugendstil (German Art Nouveau).Born in Frankenstein, Silesia (now Ząbkowice Śląskie, Poland), Erler trained at the Royal…
Joseph Kuhn‑Régnier (1876‑1940) was a French illustrator and painter best known for his elegant, erotic prints from the 1920s and 1930s. Born in Paris as Joseph Louis Wilfrid Kuhn, he later added his mother’s maiden name, Régnier, to sign his works. He grew up in a cultured environment—his father was a respected architect—and displayed early…
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,…
Edmond Malassis (1874 – 1944) was a French painter and illustrator. He was a pupil of Gustave Moreau, and became a watercolourist. Malassis worked primarily in the first half of the 20th century. A prolific book illustrator, he did not do his own engravings. In 1935, he exhibited at the galerie…
Marcel Vèrtes (1895 – 1961) was a French costume designer and illustrator of Hungarian-Jewish origins. He won two Academy Awards (Best Art Direction and Best Costume Design) for his work on the 1952 film Moulin Rouge. He was born and raised in Budapest, during the interwar years he lived in Paris and when many artists fled Europe…