Classic illustrations of female dominance, male submission and powerful women in control.
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 fatale had been behind that pen) and worked in the shadows…
Luc Lafnet (1889 -1939) was born in 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 aliases Jim Black, Lucas O.Viset for his…
Paul Kamm (1891 – After 1935) was a visionary illustrator and artist whose provocative works captured the underground allure of FemDom and BDSM themes during the Weimar era. Also known by his birth name Paul Klamm and the enigmatic pseudonym  C. Soulier, Kamm’s oeuvre, marked by intricate watercolor drawings of female‑female and female‑male…
Swiss Jimm (1918 – 1964) is a pseudonym for a Swiss/French Artist, referred to as ‘Swiss Jim’ (so this artist might not be confused with the other ‘German’ Jim)He also used the pseudonym Gil. There is nearly nothing known for this artist, a collector knew he was originally from Geneva,…
Charles Hirlemann was a French artist who signed his works C. Ch Hirlemann or, sometimes identified as “G. Hirlemann” in some library catalogs, but it is a mistake (the Ch was mistaken for a G). The book The Case of Uncle Tom clearly identifies the name of illustrator (Ch. Hirlemann)…
Richard Hegemann was born in 1880 in Erfurt. He studied in Berlin and Paris and worked in Berlin. He would use pseudonyms such as A. Hegener and P. Rollmann, or sign with just the initials R.H.) and did many spanking art and fetish drawings in the 1920s, a number of…