Erotic/Pornographic art/prints and illustrations [merged]

[deepsepia]

Originally Posted by tombed

Found these. I have no idea if the texts are related to the German texts in deepsepia's post. They are shorter, so they may be summaries, or they might be an addition by another publisher.]

My German isn't great, but seems to be a different text, here are a few of the German pages, for comparison



I've seen this practice before, a later publisher adding some new text to drawings, happens particularly with the more elaborate BDSM illustrations-- so far as I know Joseph Farrel never had any text, but there are quite a few of his illustrations floating around with text attached, in various languages.

rest of the pages are here:

https://1fichier.com/?bibr18xo01d7pfcswdz4

[19gc19]

Originally Posted by deepsepia

@Lycorne and @19gc19

Thank you for the post and the memories. There's a very touching Youtube video of Frégier at the end of his life sketching a drummer and his girl ("La Blanchisseuse et le Tambour")
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LK7CEdO4Lio

He was a skillful artist, and his military works are filled with a real sense of place. There's one I particularly admire, set in Canada ("la Nouvelle France"), a unit crossing a river. Its a depiction that makes you feel like you are watching something real-- much better than most military art



His erotic paintings were few in number -- never saw one before lycorne's post-- but they're very well done.

If you are on facebook, you have one video and a lot of pictures at https://www.facebook.com/groups/1544...804574/photos/

[deepsepia]

Joseph Hémard, a popular French book illustrator, was born in Les Mureaux, France, a small town on the Seine, northwest of Paris, on 2 August 1880. He died on 9 August 1961 in Paris. He was a prolific artist. During the early years of the 20th century he published cartoons and comics in illustrated newspapers like Le Pêle-mêle or Le Bon Vivant. He also designed costumes and sets for several operas, patterns for printed textiles, bookbindings, posters and even a facade for a bar in the 1925 Paris Exposition of Decorative Art. His lasting fame, however, lies in his book illustrations – always distinctly French in character and often erotic – which he produced for a great number of titles including many classics of French literature such as Le Malade Imaginaire (1920), Gargantua et Pantagruel (1922), Jacques Le Fataliste (1923), Cyrano de Bergerac (1927), and Aucassin et Nicolette (1936).

I'm surprised to see he's not on this thread already -- at leas not named so that I can find him in a search. He was prolific and his illustrations show up in auctions frequently. Most of them are the "pochoir" style, a kind of stencil cut which produces cartoon like images-- possibly an inspiration for the "ligne claire" style that you see in Hergé's Tintin.

Every so often you see examples Hémard's draughtsmanship-- he was talented. His works are often found in customized bindings, sometimes themselves with erotic themes-- example are included here, though in some cases I can't tell if the design is his or the bookbinder's (the French have long had a tradition of elaborate and beautiful bookbindings).

[naga]

German (Gaglemann?)

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German (Gaglemann?)

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German (Gaglemann?)

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German (Gaglemann?)

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German (Gaglemann?)

[deepsepia]

Originally Posted by naga

German (Gaglemann?)

This artwork has shown up a lot on this thread, and indeed it shows up a lot on the internet, which makes it all the more interesting. Nice to have good clean scans in one place. The question of just who this illustrator is remains open

mysterybadger, CMM00 and I pondered this, and the connections to "Julie Delcourt", in these posts:

http://vintage-erotica-forum.com/sho...postcount=2357
http://vintage-erotica-forum.com/sho...postcount=1766

Originally Posted by me

"Gagelmann" - Gert Gagelmann. He appears to have been a German fashion illustrator, and what you'll find on the web are a set of Nazi era postcards " 'Frauen schaffen für euch" ( "women work for you"). He also did illustrations for the German fashion magazine "Styl" and "Die Mode". The famous enema erotica series can most often be found attributed to "unknown", or "Julie Delcourt", sometimes also 'German" or "Herman".

Gagelmann's work certainly looks similar to that of "Julie Delcourt", but I don't know enough to say that its actually the same hand, CMM has done more research than I. Way back up this thread, I got caught out attributing the "Julie Delcourt" enema art to Bernard Montorgueil -- I thought it looked a lot like that too, but I was wrong on that. So I conclude "could be, but I can't tell". Trying to do art attributions based on style alone-- well that trips up experts all the time.

Even with intensive googling -- and what's better than googling Gagelmann?-- not much turns up. Anyone with access to a good German library might look up the
"Vollmer Künstlerlexikon", E.A.Seemann Verlag, Leipzig 1953-1958.

-- this is a six volume dictionary of German visual arts of the twentieth century. Google says there's a Gagelmann entry, but you can't read online.

Here's one of Gagelmann's 1940s postcards. I do see a similarity of line and technique to the erotica; but the famous enema series must have been done many years earlier, and so some differences to be expected

mysterybadger trawling the auction highlights found an example for sale -- I've found others-- and observed

Originally Posted by mysterbadger

http://vintage-erotica-forum.com/sho...postcount=2365

This popped up and, although it's well in the Julie Delcourt, er, court it has a signature which could be a lot of things (Nuncio? Murrio?) but not Julie or Gert or any of the other candidates.

"Julie Declourt" fascinates me, largely because I find her style so attractive and her subject matter in the main repellent. It's unclear how so much of her work ended up on the internet and there is a lot of it. Who was paying for it all?

and user CMM pointed out that because the fetish has a particular market appeal, there are likely quite a few artists knocking off Gagelmann/Delcourt "original art"

http://vintage-erotica-forum.com/sho...postcount=2367

Originally Posted by CMM

The painting is probably a copy or an hommage as the rendering is different to the illustrations we know. There is no doubt for me that there is no artist called Julie Delcourt as all images showing this signature are bad copies of already known Enema illustrations.
I shared some mails with a french curiosa collector who had the opportunity to see original illustrations from Gaglemann (I have no doubt that he is the artist) and there was no signature. He confirmed the story of an American collector would have ordered the images to the artist for his private collection.

So the only mysteries are : who is this collector? Why did he scan and shared his paintings in the 1990’s at a time Internet was just growing?

And if you are fascinated by the so called "Julie Delcourt", you are not the only one so be prepared to see "unknown art" from the artist popping from time to time on the Web. Copy and hommage (and fake) and very easy to create.

and user "myusername56" in post 1424
http://vintage-erotica-forum.com/sho...postcount=1424

observes

Originally Posted by myusername56

Julie Delcourt, aka 'German'
There is some speculation, due to the similarity of the work, that the Delcourt/German art is the early work of Richard Hegemann

I'd somehow missed that earlier post, but there's some other commentary on erotica blogs along that line:

Originally Posted by Dangerous Minds

Some names are aliases—most notably Julie Delcourt who may or may not be the pseudonym for Richard Hegemann—a German artist who also worked under the names A. Hegemann, A. Hegener and P. Rollmann. Hegemann excelled in depicting matronly women thrashing supplicant men and badly behaved boys and girls in sailor suits who seemingly relished the whack of their teacher’s belt.

We don't have any Hegemann labelled as such on this thread, and I can't find any acceptable material to post-- unfortunately, many of his themes are schoolroom and domestic discipline, which means potentially underage images, even if they're only drawings.

So where does that leave us?

The one thing we know is that Gert Gagelmann _was_ a real person and an illustrator, and his style seems similar to at least some of this work. The next thing we strongly suspect is that a lot of this work isn't his, but rather a pastiche of a popular style.

But somehow, eighty years ago or so, someone did some light watercolors that managed to be what comes up at the top of search engines in 2020 when you search "enema erotic illustration" or the like, likely the result of, as CMM observes someone in the 1990s scanning this material and putting it on the internet . . .

[mysterybadger]

Originally Posted by deepsepia

The next thing we strongly suspect is that a lot of this work isn't his, but rather a pastiche of a popular style.

Popular. That's the bit I don't get...I'm more inclined to think that these were all painted to satisfy the whim of a single collector. Surely the artist would have done better commercially producing more generally appealing vanilla works? The fact that they appeared onto the web en masse also suggests that this is one person's collection, however many artists he commissioned to fill it.