Erotic/Pornographic art/prints and illustrations [merged]

[deepsepia]

hugely talented Italian artist, best known for his comics and cover art. What I particularly appreciate about Buzzelli is the interactions between characters. naga1 has earlier posted a bunch of Buzzelli's remarkable crowd scenes, here:

http://vintage-erotica-forum.com/sho...postcount=1831

fantastically complex, comic and pretty much unique, his people live in a busy world, perhaps a bit Benny Hill -ish at times. Could also be compared to Pichard for the complex energy of his scenes.

A few more

[kelio]

(wiki)

French printmaker, caricaturist, painter, and sculptor, whose many works offer commentary on social and political life in France in the 19th century. Daumier produced more than 500 paintings, 4000 lithographs, 1000 wood engravings, 1000 drawings and 100 sculptures

Physiologie de la Portière par James Rousseau illustrée par Honoré Daumier (1841)

[tombed]

Some of these have been posted here before, but not the complete set.

Suzanne Ballivet was born in Paris, but apart from a short period in the late 1920s when she lived and worked there she spent most of her life in and near Montpellier in southern France, where her father Jules worked as a photographer, and where she went to high school. In 1923 she started her studies at l’École des Beaux Arts in Montpellier, one of a number of influential art schools in France, where her circle included her two future husbands, Camille Descossy and Albert Dubout, and Dubout’s first wife, the fashion designer Renée Altier.
Initiation Amoureuse, a retitling of Prélude Charnel, was published in a limited edition of 200 copies in 1950, though the imprint page gives the publication date as 1943 – why we can only guess. The publisher was Georges Guillot, a much-respected resistance fighter during the German occupation who Suzanne Ballivet probably met while she and Albert Dubout were spending a lot of time in Paris in the late 1940s.

[mysterybadger]

[Joszka]

Originally Posted by deepsepia

[Guido Buzzelli] fantastically complex, comic and pretty much unique, his people live in a busy world, perhaps a bit Benny Hill -ish at times. Could also be compared to Pichard for the complex energy of his scenes.

Pichard and Buzzelli on Italian mag "Glamour International" n°3, September 85.
See more about this mag here by deepsepia.

[deepsepia]

Austrian artist, art nouveau / Jugendstil; not a lot known.

Not the same artist as the similarly named Franz Christophe Janneck (who is 1703-61, and not known for erotica)



Among the erotic works you'll occasionally find:Das Naschkästchen ZwölfKupfer [1920] and Der Mord im Kastanienwäldchen oder Die ereignislose Hochzeitsnacht, published 1919 by Fritz Gurlitt with Christophe's illustrations -- some reproduced above; these are sometimes found colored





Would love to know more, talented and interesting work . . .

A very rare work that came up at Christies' auction house some years ago:
CHRISTOPHE, Franz (1875-1946). Venus und Tannhäuser. Improvisationen zu einem erotischen Thema Aubrey Beardsley’s. [Charlottenburg: Hoennicke, 1916.]

35 engravings (c.55-125 x 55-95 mm to the plate mark), including the title and colophon, printed in blue on white papier velin (c.205 x c.140 mm), and tipped at the hinge in ivory paper window mounts (278 x 209 mm); the colophon with the printed limitation ‘9’ corrected in pencil to read ‘19’. All together in a contemporary burgundy clamshell box, the upper side with a Christophe print window mounted under acetate (acetate perished, one of the mounts slightly stained).

VERY RARE EXPLICIT INTERPRETATIONS OF BEARDSLEY. Number 10 of 19 copies only. Beardsley produced only four ‘chaste’ drawings for the expurgated version of Venus and Tannhäuser (1896), and never had the chance to illustrate the uncensored version, which Smithers only published clandestinely after Beardsley’s death. Christophe’s compositions are among the finest, and earliest responses to Beardsley’s text. RARE: WorldCat locates no copy in any public collection; AE and ABPC record only one copy at auction: the Leonhardt copy, with 9 plates less than the present copy and in a later binding. The present copy appears to comprise the largest number of plates of any known copy.

. . . sold for £4000 in November 2014

[mysterybadger]

Emil Rantzenhofer 1864 - 1930 was a prolific and diverse Viennese commercial artist who also produced a number of erotic works, notably La Bonbonniere, in collaboration with Franz von Bayros. Unfortunately this often leads to his work being attributed to Bayros, although its quite distinct, notably in the rich and quirky background details.

Given that he was Viennese some of his stuff does not meet forum rules (penguins...elephants) but I'm assuming mermaids are OK.



He also illustrated James Grunert's Frauen Mein Lieben and, as Emil Rantzi, 1001 Nights.


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[mysterybadger]

These first pictures appeared in Private magazine, in the days when magazines commissioned artwork:



One or two then turn up on the covers of titles from Zettner Books (love the second one, a masterpiece of graphic design):



which seems to have been well into repurposing artwork:



Which makes me wonder if all these other covers had a previous life:





Bu then again, these are apparently internal illustrations from a Zettner publication:




And then there are all these, in a similar vein but with an emphasis on redheads, from god knows where:



So, does anyone know of any 60s ish maagazines which might have featured these kind of illustrations and artists?

[kelio]

Originally Posted by mysterybadger

And then there are all these, in a similar vein but with an emphasis on redheads, from god knows where:

If I'm not mistaken, the above drawing could be the work of Alessandro Biffignandi
Some of his illustrations have been posted here and here

Samples

[mysterybadger]

Originally Posted by kelio

If I'm not mistaken, the above drawing could be the work of [B]Alessandro Biffignandi

That would be huge. Biffignandi was responsible for the covers of my guiltiest of pleasures, La Polizziotta, but despite the utter depravity within, he never AFAIK did any hardcore stuff himself.

Personally I think he's just a little bit too good for this. And way too weird.