Sensual illustrations capturing desire, nudity, fantasy and sexual tension.
~ 1891 – 1958 Alfons Walde was an Austrian artist and architect. Walde is known best for his winter landscapes and farming images, especially skiing and sporting scenes, painted in tempera or impastoed oil paint. Many of his paintings can be seen in the Museum gallery in Kitzbühel. Walde was…
~ 1903 – 1976 Antoni Uniechowski was a highly accomplished Polish illustrator, best known in his homeland for his elegant book illustrations, posters, and theatre scenography. Born in 1903 in Vilnius (then part of the Russian Empire), he endured a difficult childhood marked by frequent illness, which kept him bedridden…
~ 1886 – 1939 Boris Grigoriev was a painter, graphic artist, and writer. He studied at the Stroganov Art School from 1903 to 1907 with Dmitry Shcherbinovsky. Grigoriev went on to study at the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg from 1907 to 1912. He began exhibiting his work…
Jean de Bosschère (1878 – 1953) was a Belgian writer and painter. Jean attended the École d’Horticulture in Ghent. In 1894, the family moved to Antwerp, where Jean attended the Royal Academy of Fine Arts from 1896 to 1900. Between 1901 and 1905, he regularly visited Paris where he met…
~ First published in 1748 Thérèse Philosophe (Therese the Philosopher) is a 1748 French novel ascribed to Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d’Argens. It has been chiefly regarded as a pornographic novel, which accounts for its massive sales in 18th-century France. I did some research to find various artworks by different artists, all for the…
François de Geetere (1895-1968), born in Brussels, developed a unique surrealist style in Utrecht during the war, influenced by notable artists like Magritte. His etchings reflect themes of conflicted sexuality and existential dread. Despite his talent, he lost popularity, prompting him to title his memoirs “The man who forgot to die.”