Fingesten, Michel

(4/18/1884 Buczkowitz, Poland-1943) (Poland / Italy)

   Painter, etcher, and lithographer. Prolific erotic artist expressing phallic fantasies and scenes of female sexuality. Known to have produced a number of portfolios and erotic bookplates, particularly for the collector Mantero.

   Reproductions: [Bookplate— nude woman fondled by a creature]; 1915; Encyclopaedia, 2005: p. 134 . Bookplates; Kronhausen, 1970b: pp. 13, 33, 35, 41, 66, 72-74, 102, 181, 182, 190-192, 205 / Rasmussen, 1952: fig. 16, p. 77 [B]. La Gouvernante; 1915; Encyclopaedia, 2005: p. 135 [C]. Le petite Jardiniere bookplate; engraving; Burns, 1997: p. 45 [C]. [Lesbian group sex scene]; 1920; Encyclopaedia, 2005: p. 153 [C]. [Nude woman amused at seeing a bird on a man's erection]; 1920; Encyclopaedia, 2005: p. 152 [C]. [Nude woman embraces huge phallus]; Dopp, 2000: p. 205 [C]. Portfolio Improvisationen uber das Thema Liebe; drawings and etchings; 1913-1923; Weiermair, 1995: pp. 270-285 [C] / Neret, 2000: p. 290 [C]. Portfolio L'Amour et la folie; 1918; Dopp, 2000: pp. 190-191 [C]. [Woman watering phallic plants]; c1920; Kronhausen,1970c: p. 39 [B] / Encyclopaedia, 2005: p. 152 [C].

   [b]Source: Hans-Jurgen Dopp, "Eros under the sign of Saturn: the graphic art of Michael Fingesten," in Erotic art: from the 17th to the 20th century, edited by P Weiermair (Zurich: Edition Stemmle, 1999): pp. 264-285; Vollmer II 1955: p. 106.