1 album/6 artworks – The name of this artist appears as one of the illustrators for Cruelle Despote, published in 1930. Some artworks from this book were done by Wighead and by E. Klem and others by Vera. The artworks can be seen in the album below.
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…
A very curious late eighteenth-century booklet, devoted to domination and slave-mounts, satire of the French in exile in Germany during the French Revolution. Some had the reputation of enchanting the rather naive German girls with false promises. In this tale, the Frenchman seduces the young maid in order to steal…
Bisare is an extremely obscure American underground publication issued in Chicago in the early to mid-1940s. Produced by the shadowy imprint Press Esquire, it appeared as a numbered series of small digests, each containing a fresh set of illustrations devoted exclusively to the themes of flagellation, chaining, bondage and spanking….
Léo Fontan (1884 – 1965) was a versatile French painter, illustrator, and decorative artist whose elegant Art Deco style brought him recognition in mainstream circles, while under the pseudonym Fontana he created some of the most refined and sought-after vintage BDSM and spanking illustrations of the 1930s. Born on 23…
Georg Scholz (1890 – 1945) was a German painter, member of the New Objectivity movement. Scholz was born in Wolfenbüttel and had his artistic training at the Karlsruhe Academy, where his teachers included Hans Thoma and Wilhelm Trübner. He later studied in Berlin under Lovis Corinth. In 1919 Scholz became a member of…