Mariette Lydis
Litograph, 1934, by Mariette Lydis
Litograph, 1934, by Mariette Lydis
Le Kiss, litograph, by Mariette Lydis
Mariette Lydis (1887-1970)
Mariette Lydis (1887–1970) (born Marietta Ronsperger) was an Austrian-Argentine painter and illustrator famous for her lesbian litographs. She was bisexual and Jewish, married twice, to Julius Koloman Pachoffer-Karñy (1910) and later to Jean Lydis (1920) and Count Giuseppe Govone (1934). Mariette Lydis started her art career as a young self-taught artist who got her start in the art world after traveling to France with Bontempelli in 1925, where she entered the art circles of Paris. She stayed married to Govone until his death in 1948 hower, at the end of the 30s she escaped Paris and the ensuing Nazi roundup of Jews to be briefly in England, and from 1940 she lived in Argentina with her partner Erica Marx until her death in 1970 – Source: Wikipedia
Mariette Lydis, 1939.