Classic illustrations of female dominance, male submission and powerful women in control.
Wighead ( 1896 – 1982) was an illustrator of femdom/femsub BDSM/spanking novels in the 1930s. Over the years I have seen more artwork that can be connected to Wighead, someone once told me that drawings with the signature E.K were not from Wighead but from Eugene Klementieff. Since I am…
Alexander Sandor Szekely (1901 – 1968) was a very well-known graphic artist who worked in Budapest, Vienna and Paris between 1920 and 1940. This arstist was well known for making erotic drawings, some of which made lots of money at auctions. He also illustrated Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tales in…
In the fog‑filled studios of 1920s Paris, Gaston Smit worked with a pen that cut as sharply as a whip. From the late 1910s to the mid‑1930s, this elusive French illustrator (also publishing under the names Georges Topfer and James Barclay) produced more than a thousand drawings of sadomasochistic erotica. His work straddles…
Joe Shuster (1914 – 1992) was born in Toronto, Canada. At the age of nine, his family moved to Cleveland, Ohio where he would later meet Jerome Siegel, with whom he would become a creative partner. Siegel and Shuster created a hero character which later became famous as Superman. The…
Bruno Schulz (1892 – 1942) 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 wife due to his poor health….
Rudolf Schlichter (1890 – 1955) was a German artist and one of the most important representatives of the Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) movement. Schlichter was born in Calw, Württemberg. After an apprenticeship as an enamel painter at a Pforzheim factory he attended the School of Arts and Crafts in Stuttgart….