Schatz, Otto Rudolf

(1/18/1900 Vienna-1961 Vienna) (Austria)

   Painter and graphic artist. Studied with Strand and Kenner. He was well known in the inter-war years as a champion of the New Objectivity and was re-discovered in the early 1970s. Very prolific artist, with over 1000 known prints. Produced three volumes of erotic watercolors.

   Reproductions: [Bondage and rape scenes]; 1954; watercolor; Klinger, 1985d: plates XIV-XXIV . [Couples and groups having sex]; 1927; woodcuts; Weiermair, 1995: pp. 150-153 [B]. [Four lounging women engaged in foreplay]; 1927; aquarelle; Weiermair, 1995: p. 146 . [Four nude women]; watercolor; Klinger, 1982c: p. 257 [B]. [Girls playing in yard]; 1952; watercolor; Klinger, 1985d: figs. 242-251 [B]. [Nuns fondle nude women]; watercolor; Dopp, 2000: p. 139 [C] / Klinger, 1982c: fig. 256 [B]. [Orgy scene]; watercolor; Klinger, 1982c: fig. 255 [B]. [Sex scenes with S&M emphasis]; 1954; water-color; Klinger, 1985d: plates I-XIII [B]. [Standing woman embracing a smaller woman whose buttocks are being whipped]; 1927; aquarelle; Weier-mair, 1995: p. 147 [C]. [Three lesbians]; 1927-1930; Dopp, 2000: p. 218 [C]. [Three nude women]; wa-tercolor; Klinger, 1982c: fig. 258 [B]. [Three nude women having sex]; watercolor; Klinger, 1982c: fig. 259 [B]. Tit fuck; c1930; Dopp, 2000: p. 219 [C]. [Two dressed women present a naked woman to a man with an erection]; 1927; aquarelle; Weier-mair, 1995: p. 148 [C]. [Two women and a man with an erection]; watercolor; Klinger, 1982c: p. 260 [B]. [Two young women being presented to a phallus]; 1927; aquarelle; Weiermair, 1995: p. 146 [C].

   [b]Source: Benezit, vol. 12: pp. 553-554; Vollmer IV 1958: p. 176.