Sascha Schneider: Nude in Public

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Sascha Schneider

"Hypnose" 

1904

50 x 40 cm

lithograph.

“He made these works for straight people in public buildings,” says Hunter O’Hanian, looking through a catalog of Schneider’s perfectly muscled demigods. “He actually kept a gym in his studio for his models.” O’Hanian’s favorite work? This painting, titled “Hypnose,” that shows a hooded muscle daddy beaming white light into the eyes of a stricken, naked ephebe.