Edle Nacktheit in China · 1928

**Heinz von Perckhammer ~** From “Edle Nacktheit in China /The culture of the Nude in China”. Eigenbrödler Verlag [Berlin, 1928]

**Heinz von Perckhammer ~** From “The culture of the Nude in China”. Eigenbrödler Verlag [Berlin, 1928]

**Heinz von Perckhammer ~** From “Edle Nacktheit in China”. Eigenbrödler Verlag [Berlin, 1928] 1st edition | src sworders

**Heinz von Perckhammer ~** Heliogravür. *Edle Nacktheit in China*. Berlin. Eigenbrödler Verlag [1928] | src mutualArt

**Heinz von Perckhammer ~** From “Edle Nacktheit in China /The culture of the Nude in China”. Eigenbrodler Verlag [Berlin, 1928]

**Heinz von Perckhammer ~** From “Edle Nacktheit in China”. Berlin, Eigenbrödler-Verlag, (1928)

**Heinz von Perckhammer ~** Heliogravure from “Edle Nacktheit in China”. Eigenbrödler Verlag [Berlin, 1928] | src mutualArt

**Heinz von Perckhammer ~** From “The culture of the Nude in China”. Berlin, Eigenbrödler-Verlag, (1928)

**Heinz von Perckhammer ~** From “Edle Nacktheit in China”. Berlin, Eigenbrödler-Verlag, (1928) | src Abebooks

**Heinz von Perckhammer ~** Akt. *Edle Nacktheit in China*. Berlin. Eigenbrödler Verlag [1928] | src Abebooks

Heinz von Perckhammer was born in Merano, Austria-Hungary (now Italy) in 1895. During the First World War he served aboard the SMS Kaiserin Elisabeth during the Siege of Tsingtao and between 1917 and 1919 was held as a prisoner of war. It was during this time when he was held captive that his interest in photography began. He apparently remained in China for much of the 1920s, and took these soft-focused and stylized photographs of women from Macao brothels.

In the introduction to Edle Nacktheit in China he writes: ‘Pictures of nude women, setting aside the ugly caricatures of the “Spring pictures” of erotic scenes, simply do not exist in China. Therefore I believe, I have created something entirely new and of value.’ Edle Nacktheit in China was later banned by the Nazis as Degenerate art (Entartete Kunst) and appeared on the Liste des schädlichen und unerwünschten Schrifttums [List of harmful and undesirable writing].

**Heinz von Perckhammer ~** front cover from *Edle Nacktheit in China*. Berlin. Eigenbrödler Verlag [1928] | src Abebooks

Edle Nacktheit in China (1928)

**Heinz von Perckhammer ::** “Edle Nacktheit in China”, Macao, ca. 1920; photogravure on Japan paper | src Collezione Molinario

**Heinz von Perckhammer ::** The Culture of the Nude in China. Berlin; Eigenbrodler Verlag, [1928] | src heritage auctions

**Heinz von Perckhammer ~** From “Edle Nacktheit in China”. Eigenbrödler Verlag [Berlin, 1928] 1st edition (cover) | src sworders

**Heinz von Perckhammer ::** “The culture of the Nude in China”, Macao, ca. 1920; original photogravure on Japan paper | src Collezione Molinario

In the introduction to Edle Nacktheit in China he writes: ‘Pictures of nude women, setting aside the ugly caricatures of the “Spring pictures” of erotic scenes, simply do not exist in China. Therefore I believe, I have created something entirely new and of value.’ Edle Nacktheit in China was later banned by the Nazis as degenerate art (Entartete Kunst) and appeared on the Liste des schädlichen und unerwünschten Schrifttums [List of harmful and undesirable writing].

**Heinz von Perckhammer ~** Nude from “Edle Nacktheit in China”. Eigenbrödler Verlag [Berlin, 1928] Heliogravür | src Koller Auktionen

**Heinz von Perckhammer ~** Young nude girl. Rotogravure. From “Edle Nacktheit in China”, Berlin, 1928 | src Drouot

*Edle Nacktheit in China* (1928); book with 32 original photographs by Heinz v. Perckhammer | src Abebooks

Nu de dos par Laryew, 1923

**Lucien Waléry [Laryew] ::** Nude / Akt / Nu, Paris, 1923. Original Heliogravure. Plate XXIV. | src artografie on eBay

**Lucien Waléry ::** Portfolio de 100 photogravures publié en 1923 par la Librairie des Arts Décoratifs. | src livejournal and wikibooks

Nude by Lucien Waléry, 1920s

Lucien Waléry [aka, Laryew, Yrélaw] :: Untitled female nude [1920s]. Photogravure in Sepia. | src Jeschke · Van Vliet — **Lucien Waléry [aka, Laryew, Yrélaw] ::** Untitled female nude [1920s]. Photogravure in Sepia. | src Jeschke · Van Vliet

From a collection of 100 Art Deco nudes by the Parisian photographer Waléry, who also used the anagrams Yrélaw or Laryew. He photographed mostly revue dancers 100 years ago – namely Josephine Baker and Mata Hari. Waléry is often confused with Stanislaw Julian Ignacy Count Ostroróg, maybe because from a stylistic point of view, Waléry and Count Ostoróg could very well have been one and the same person (cf. Jürg H. Meyer, Wer war Walery?). Quoted from source.