Martin van Maële

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Illustration for Paul Verlaine , La Trilogie érotique (1907)

Martin van Maële (actually Maurice François Alfred Martin ; born October 12, 1863 in Boulogne sur Seine ; † September 5, 1926 ) was a French draftsman and illustrator who is best known for his erotic work.

Life

His mother was Virginie Mathilde Jeanne van Maële, his father, Louis Alfred Martin, was a painter and graphic artist and was since 1885 a teacher of woodcut at the Geneva School of Applied Arts ( Haute ecole d'arts appliques de Genève ). His pseudonym Martin van Maële is a combination of the names of his mother and father.

Maële worked in Brussels and Paris . The erotic illustrations that established his reputation appeared in small, bibliophile editions, among others by the publisher Charles Carrington . La Grande Danse Macabre des Vifs (“The great dance of death of the living”) can be regarded as his main work . It is a collection of grotesquely erotic drawings. Objects are the representation of marginal sexual practices, phallic fantasies and crude, macabre sexual humor.

He was married to Marie Françoise Genet. His grave is in the Varennes-Jarcy cemetery .

  • La Grande Danse Macabre des Vifs

  • Dixain I.

  • Dixain II

  • Dixain III

  • Dixain IV

  • No. 10

  • No. 14 (Mlle J., called "The Diver")

  • No. 29 ("And when mother comes?" "Will she tell you not to speak with your mouth full.")

  • No. 31 (Put your pants down!)

Works

Illustrated books in
chronological order

  • Anatole France Thaïs Charles Carrington, Paris 1901.
  • Wilhelm Reinhard (translated by Jean de Villiot) La flagellation des femmes en Allemagne Charles Carrington, Paris 1901. 20 drawings.
  • Margaret Anson (translated by Jean de Villiot) Une société de flagellantes. Réminiscences et révélations d'une soubrette de grande maison… Charles Carrington, Paris 1902.
  • Conan Doyle Aventures Extraordinaires Librairie Félix Juven, Paris 1902. 15 drawings.
  • Anatole France (translated by AR Allinson) The Well of Santa Clara ( Le puits de Sainte Claire ) Charles Carrington, Paris 1903.
  • Jean de Villiot Dix-septans: étude sociale Charles Carrington, Paris 1905. Drawings.
  • Apulée (translated by Jean de Montlyard) L'Âne d'or Charles Carrington, Paris 1905. 21 eaux-fortes. New edition: Jean de Bonnot, Paris 1991.
  • Paul Verlaine La Trilogie érotique: Amies, Femmes, Hombres Charles Carrington, Bruxelles, 1907. 15 drawings.
  • Aimé Van Rod Nos Belles flagellantes Paris 1907. 10 drawings.
  • Pierre Choderlos de Laclos Les Liaisons dangereuses Jules Chevrel, Paris 1908. 20 drawings.
  • Jules Michelet La Sorcière Jules Chevrel, Paris 1911. New edition: Jean de Bonnot , 1987.
  • Edgar Allan Poe (translated by Charles Baudelaire ) Dix contes Librairie Dorbon-Ainé, Paris 1912. 95 etchings by Eugène Dété.
  • Denis Diderot La Religieuse Jules Chevrel, Paris 1916.
  • Sadinet Petites cousines: souvenirs érotiques d'un homme de qualité touchant les jolies petites cousines… les bonnes à tout faire… les femmes du monde et les belles filles de province à la folie du jour ( Jean Fort ) 1919. Drawings attributed to van Maele.
  • Claude de Saint-Hieble L'Instrument des apothécaires Jean Fort, coll. "Les Amis du bon vieux temps", Paris 1920.
  • Edmond Haraucourt La Légende des sexes Au Clos Bruneau, Paris 1921. 12 etchings.
  • François Béroalde de Verville Le Moyen de parvenir Jean Fort, Paris 1921. 18 colored and 65 small drawings.
  • Pierre Fély Les Princesses de Cythère, chronique libertine de l'histoire. Jean Fort, coll. "Les Amis du bon vieux temps", Paris 1922.
  • Charles Sorel L'Histoire comique de Francion. En laquelle sont découvertes les plus subtle finesses et trompeuses inventions tant des hommes que des femmes de toutes sortes de conditions et d'âges. Jean Fort, Paris 1925. 17 drawings.
  • Pierre de Jusange La Comtesse au fouet Jean Fort, Paris 1926. 7 drawings.
  • Docteur Gastien Fowler Maison des flagellations Jean Fort, Collection des Orties Blanches, Paris 1926.
  • Pierre l'Arétin Dialogues Jean Fort, 1927. 66 + 10 drawings. Some drawings by Luc Lafnet .
  • Ovide Les amours; L'art d'aimer; Les Héroïdes; Les remèdes d'amour; Les cosmétiques Jean de Bonnot, Paris 2000.

Independent works

  • La Grande Danse Macabre des Vifs. Charles Carrington, 1905. New edition: Déesse, Nanterre, 1980.

expenditure

  • The satyrical drawings of Martin van Maele. Cythera Press, New York, 1970.

literature

  • Lexicon van Westvlaamse beeldende kunstenaars. Vol. VI, Kortrijk / Brugge 1997
  • E. Bénézit: Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs de tous les temps et de tous les pays. Vol. VIII, 1999

Web links

Commons : Martin Van Maele  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Martin, Louis Alfred . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 24 : Mandere – Möhl . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1930, p. 154 .
personal data
SURNAME Maële, Martin van
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Martin, Maurice François Alfred (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French draftsman and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH October 12, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH Boulogne sur Seine
DATE OF DEATH September 5, 1926