All About Love?

30th March 2021

We’ve just added all the missing images to the 1925 ‘Eugène Reunier’ (Carl Breuer-Courth) portfolio, Autour de l’amour (All About Love), so it’s now complete – see them all here. Have fun!

The arbitrariness of pornography laws

29th March 2021

The maverick Austrian artist and sculptor Alfred Hrdlicka was preoccupied with history, politics and personal freedom, and his 1973 Wiener Blut portfolio makes it clear what he thought of the Austrian pornography laws! See it here now.

The battle between lust and ‘polite society’

27th March 2021

Today’s new artist is the Austrian Alwine Hotter, who during her long life produced many sensitive portraits and a telling cycle of linocuts depicting the sordid underside of polite Austrian society. See her bold work here.

Poverty and necessity in 1920s Berlin

23rd March 2021

Heinrich Zille’s 1921 Hurengespräche (Whore Talk) is a classic of working-class urban poverty, complete with his trademark sketches of working women and their clients. Sadly unavailable in English, you can still see his telling images here.

An imaginative 1920s German phallic homage

22nd March 2021

Friedrich Wilhelm Kleukens was one of the leading lights of the German secession style between 1900 and 1918, mirroring in Germany the aims and aspirations of the British Arts and Crafts Movement. He only made one erotic portfolio, which you can see here.

The artist’s response to their ‘real world’

18th March 2021

Marcos Carrasquer is an artist who will make you think, look again, question – exactly what an artist should do! See his work, including his disturbing illustrations for Bataille’s The Story of the Eye, here.

More of Roland Topor’s wicked wit

17th March 2021

New today, Roland Topor’s L’amour à voix haute (Love at Full Volume) is an interesting anthology on two counts, both for his distinctive artwork and for he extended poem, a compilation of all the things that he has experienced lovers saying in bed: you can see the whole portfolio here.

Where to put Cupid’s arrow

16th March 2021

Powerfully spiritual or scarily Aryan? Today’s new artist is the German Carl Schwalbach, with his larger-than-life Amazons. See his work here and ponder …

Sex as it really is …

15th March 2021

American artist Jim Herbert says ‘For me making erotic art is a sensual, playful experience – but with the possibility of a wreck on every turn.’ Which is maybe a really helpful way of thinking about sex in general! See his work here.

 

Edith Thiercelin’s powerful erotic imagery

13th March 2021

The Parisian artist Edith Thiercelin came late to erotic art, but when she did she used all her artistic training and her vivid imagination to burst on the scene with her powerful no-holds-barred sexually-charged images. See them now by clicking here!