The chariot of Venus

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The Venus Chariot was a book series by Fritz Gurlitt Verlag in Berlin . Between 1919 and 1920, the gallery owner and publisher Wolfgang Gurlitt initiated this “collection of erotic private prints” published by Alfred Richard Meyer . A total of nine volumes, some of which were very lavishly furnished (including original graphics), were brought onto the market in small numbers (approx. 500 copies per volume).

expenditure

Illustration from The Chariot of Venus (1781) by Lovis Corinth
  1. Friedrich Schiller : The Chariot of Venus (1781) . 1919 (illustrated by Lovis Corinth ).
  2. Victor-Joseph Étienne de Jouy : Sappho or the lesbians ("Sappho ou les lesbiennes"). 1920 (illustrated by Otto Schoff ; translated by Balduin Möllhausen ).
  3. Panchatantra . Fables from the Indian love life . 1919 (illustrated by Richard Janthur ).
  4. Alfred Richard Meyer : The Aldegrever Girl. A novella . 1920 (illustrated by Georg Walter Rössner).
  5. Balduin Möllhausen: The murder in the chestnut grove or The uneventful wedding night (freely based on Henry de Kock; illustrated by Franz Christophe).
  6. Heinrich Lautensack : Erotic votive tablets . 1919 (illustrated by Willi Jaeckel ).
  7. The royal orgy or the Austrian in a good mood. An opera (“L'Autrichienne enquoquette ou l'orgie royale”). 1919 (illustrated by Paul Scheurich ; translated by Engelbert Nern).
  8. Wilhelm Heinse : The cherries . 1920 (illustrated by Wilhelm Wagner).
  9. Joris Karl Huysmans : Gilles de Rais ("La magie en Poitou"). 1919 (illustrated by Willi Geiger ; translated by August Döppner).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ published by a bodyguard on the day of freedom of the press; set to music by the queen

Web links

Commons : The Chariot of Venus  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files