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The Swiss artist Ferdinand Hodler. Loved by Rodin in Paris, banned for obscenity in Geneva, he invented his own hybrid of Symbolism called “Parallelism”.

Born in 1853, the same year as Van Gogh, Ferdinand Hodler didn’t...

Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach. 1880s free love messiah, naturist, pacifist, vegetarian, sun worshipper and unique symbolist painter.

Regarded as the “forefather of alternative movements” Diefenbach (1851-1913) took to wearing...

Found photos : Three lost decades of Iowa Speedway recovered. With Merlin Benning, Lester “Red” Dralle. Claus Stricker, Don & Dick Feckers & Red Droste. 1950>1970.

TUNIS SPEEDWAY, WATERLOO, IOWA, U.S.A. 1950/1960/1970 In the late 1940s, Judd L....

The Art of Protest: Albert Hahn was righteous anger manifest. A graphic character assassin that even the mighty Germany Kaiser feared.

In his short life (1877-1918), the Dutch illustrator and social activist Albert...

Courtesans, prostitutes, society ladies and myth. The drawings and preparatory sketches of Henry Fuseli.

The incredible sketches of Henry Fuseli (1741 – 1825), the Swiss Protestant...

The deep, dark magic of Henry Fuseli, a holy man hounded from Zürich for exposing corruption, who landed on his feet in London, discovered the supernatural, and leaned in.

Born Johann Heinrich Füssli, Henry Fuseli (1741 – 1825), the second of...

Henrique Alvim Corréa. The Pre-Modernist Brazilian illustrator of Victorian era science fiction shaped how we perceive the alien. H.G. Wells said that he, “did more for my work with his brush than I with my pen”.

Henrique Alvim Corréa (1876 – 1910) was a vary rare breed indeed....

Histoire charmante de l’adolescente sucre d’amour or “A charming story of a sweet adolescent love” is a marriage made in Art Deco heaven. Written by an eccentric Egyptian & exquisitely illustrated by François-Louis Schmied.

“A charming story of a sweet adolescent love” or Histoire charmante de...

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In his ultra rare Histoire de la princesse Boudour of 1926, François-Louis Schmied took a tale from One Thousand and One Nights and re-imagined as a sexually charged Art Deco tour de force.

The Swiss born French painter, wood engraver, printer, editor, bookbinder and illustrator...

Hendrick Goltzius was “the last professional engraver who drew with the authority of a good painter”. His work is as powerful as when he etched it. Almost 500 years ago.

With Goltzius there’s no need to think about it too much. Nearly...

The 1920s French Art Deco influencer who drew pure design inspiration from the natural world. Insectes (1929) by Émile-Allain Séguy.

Emile-Allain Séguy was a French Art Deco style leader and his Insectes (1929),...

Collection Decors et Couleurs. Album No. 1. Pochoirs designed by George Valmier (1930). The final work of a modern art giant.

The work of French painter Georges Valmier (1885-1937) encompassed the great movements...