Behmer, Marcus Michael Douglas

Behmer, Marcus Michael Douglas
(10/1/1879 Weimar-9/12/1958 Munich) (Germany)
   aka pseudonym Besnaux, Maurice
   Painter, book decorator, graphic artist, typeface designer, bookplate designer, watercolorist, and caricaturist. Largely self-taught, he worked in a fine line style with an elegant, fantasy, and historical quality. Condemned as a homosexual early in the 20th century.
   Reproductions: Baumchen, Baum-chen, Schuttle dich!; Bilder-Lexikon vol. 3: p. 117 . Cinderella; Melville, 1973: fig. 208 [B]. Der gourmet; Bilder-Lexikon vol. 3: p. 117 [B]. Diver-timenti/Spiegelbilder. Proverbios-Ubungen im freien Styl portfolio; 1931-1932; woodcuts; Weier-mair, 1995: pp. 154-157 [B]. Gourmand; Melville, 1973: fig. 207 [B]. Kalos portfolio; 1928; [20] engravings; Kronhausen, 1968: pp. 130-131 [B].
   [b]Source: AKL VIII 1994: p. 301; Benezit, vol. 2: p. 37; ThB III 1909: p. 203; Vollmer I 1953: p. 155.

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