The elegant and humiliating world of vintage ponyplay fetish art.
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…
German painter and printmaker Hartmut von Altrock (1931 – 2014) born in Breslau and later based in Berlin and the French Auvergne, is best known to the wider art world for his delicate cityscapes, intimate interiors, and flower still-lifes.Under the pseudonym Max von Strauch, however, he created a parallel and…
Eric Stanton (1926 – 1999) was an American underground cartoonist and fetish art pioneer. While Stanton began his career as a bondage fantasy artist for Irving Klaw, the majority of his later work depicted gender role reversal and proto-feminist female dominance scenarios. Commissioned by Klaw starting in the late 1940s, his bondage…
Boris Bergson (1927 – 1996) most likely started as illustrator for Irving Klaw’s Nutrix serie. His art does show some resemblance with the works from Gene Bilbrew and Eric Stanton but it is obvious the artist had his own style. Boris used the pseudonym Tom and I think he is…
There is not much known about this illustrator. Takashi Shima, 四馬孝 (who is also often shared as Takashi Shiwa) was a painter who appeared from the November issue of 1954 to the final issue of March 1975 from an Japanese Bondage Magazine. Since my knowledge of this language is below zero…
This enigmatic artist, signed in a way that can be read as either A.W or R.W (and in some older references possibly R.O), remains one of the most intriguing mysteries in vintage fetish and BDSM illustration. As a non-expert in deciphering signatures from this period, I find it genuinely difficult…