Sensual illustrations capturing desire, nudity, fantasy and sexual tension.
Albert von Keller was born on 27 April 1844 in the small Swiss town of Gais, in the canton of Appenzell, but he would spend most of his life in Munich and become one of the city’s best-loved painters. At the age of ten he moved there with his mother,…
Johann Heinrich Füssli (1741 – 1825) better known in England as Henry Fuseli, was a Swiss-born painter, draughtsman, and art theorist whose dramatic and unconventional works made him a key figure in the Romantic movement. Originally trained as a theologian and preacher, he abandoned the church in 1764, embracing a…
Heinz Brandenberg is an obscure and largely undocumented name from the underground erotic art scene of the 1970s. Likely working under a pseudonym or artist name, the creator was active in German-speaking Europe, most probably Germany, Austria, or Switzerland, as shown by the frequent use of German captions and phrases…
Nicolas Sternberg (1901 – 1959) was a highly original and prolific Hungarian-born artist and illustrator whose career flourished in the vibrant artistic scene of interwar Paris. Born in 1901 in Nagyvárad (now Oradea, Romania, then part of Hungary), Sternberg showed early talent by contributing illustrations to Hungarian newspapers as a…
The Fredi Trilogy is a rare and provocative series of three semi-autobiographical novels that trace the awakening of same-sex desire in a repressive society. Published by the Parisian house Librairie Artistique( known for its scandalous “kitsch novels”) the books were disguised as a “study in sexual inversion” to navigate censorship.For…
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…