Martin van Maële
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Martin van Maële (1863? - September 5 1926) was a Belgian artist and illustrator who created many erotic works, ranging from absurd drawings and caricatures to the violent and disturbing. He used René Gockinga and A. Van Troizem as pseudonyms. According to Spanking Art, he is considered one of the most important artists and illustrators of his time and is sometimes compared with other famous artists such as Aubrey Beardsley.
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Biographical details
Martin van Maële's date of birth is uncertain. According to The Erotica Bibliophile, he was born on 12 October 1863 in the city of Boulogne-Billancourt, France, to Virginie Mathilde Jeanne Van Maele and Louis Alfred Martin; his real full name was Maurice François Alfred Martin.
According to The Erotica Bibliophile, Martin van Maële was married to Marie Françoise Genet. They had no children. At the time of his death they lived in Chantilly (Oise), France. Martin van Maële died on 5 September 1926, and is buried in the cemetery of Varennes-Jarcy, France.
Artistic career
He was a student of Félicien Rops, the famous Belgian artist and engraver. Van Maële worked in shops in Paris and Brussels and published his work with Charles Carrington and Jean Fort (Collection des Orties Blanches).
Maële also illustrated works by mainstream authors H. G. Wells, and at least four Sherlock Holmes books published by Félix Juven.
Some of his work was published by Jules Chevrel.
Van Maele worked at Brussels as well as Paris, and his best known work – consisting among other things of an illustrated edition of Paul Verlaine's poems – was published in small, secretive editions by publisher Charles Carrington. The prints are considered both humoristic and satirical, sometimes cynical.
Van Maële's career is said to have really began with his illustrations for H.G. Wells in Les Premiers Hommes dans la Lune (or First Men On The Moon), published by Félix Juven in 1901. The title later became the classic 1902 sci-fi silent film called Le Voyage dans la lune, produced by Georges Méliès. Van Maële also illustrated Anatole France's Thais, published by Charles Carrington, also in 1901. The following year, and occasionally thereafter, Van Maëleworked as an illustrator for the Felix Juven's French translations of the Sherlock Holmes series.
Martin van Maële died in 1926 while working on the drawings for Les Dialogues de Pietro Aretino by Pietro Aretino. The frontispiece and two of the engravings were made by Viset Luc Lafnet.
Maële's most famous work is the extremely rare "La Grande Danse Macabre des Vifs", published by Charles Carrington in 1908. It was limited to 100 copies (cover).
Works
This is an incomplete list of Martin van Maële's flagellation novel illustrations:
- La Flagellation des Femmes en Allemagne by Jean de Villot (1901), Charles Carrington
- Thais (1901), Charles Carrington
- La Trilogie Érotique (Amies - Femmes - Hombres) by Paul Verlaine (1907), illustrated by Van Troizem (Martin van Maële)
- Lettres à la présidente et galanteries poétiques by Théophile Gautier (1907), Jules Chevrel, illustrated by Van Troizem (Martin van Maële)
- La Grande Danse Macabre des Vifs, Charles Carrington (1908)
- La Sorcière by Jules Michelet (1911), J. Chevrel
- L'Instrument des apothicaires by Claude de Saint-Hieble (pseudonym of Pierre Dumarchey), Jean Fort (1920)
- Les Princesses de Cythère by Pascal Fely (pseudonym of Pascal Pia), Jean Fort (1920)
- La Comtesse au Fouet by Pierre Jusange (1926), Collection des Orties Blanches
- Les Dialogues de Pietro Aretino by Pietro Aretino (1927)
- The Golden Ass by Lucius Apuleius, Englished by Harold Berman (1930), privately printed, illustrated by René Gockinga
Literature
- The Satyrical Drawings Of Martin van Maële:
- Hardcover, The Cythera Press, New York, 1970, ISBN 0070202028
- Paperback, The Cythera Press, New York, 1970, ASIN B000K7B5LQ
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