Raphael Kirchner

Raphael Kirchner (5 May 1875 – 2 August 1917) was an Austrian artist, principally a portrait painter and illustrator best known for Art Nouveau and early pin up work, especially in picture postcard format.

Kirchner produced over a thousand published paintings and drawings in his lifetime, mostly in the form of picture postcards. His often mildly erotic paintings of feminine beauty, in convenient postcard and magazine page form, were among the early pin ups favoured by European and American soldiers in World War I