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This is one of the postcards drawn by the man who created the pin-up, Raphael Kirchner. He was born in 1876 in Vienna, then moved to Paris, then to London, and at the beginning of the First World war moved to new York. Well, I see, there are magazines and postcards. And Yes, movie posters. But most of all-magazines for men. But at the same time, it is absolutely certain that his inspiration and the main model was Nina - his own wife. In most of the works of Raphael Kirchner, one and the same image is very clearly traced – in fact, this is Nina. Most likely their marriage was almost perfect, and the feelings are incredibly deep, because after the death of Raphael Nina tried to commit suicide several times, and then the good doctors put her on heroin and she lost her mind.
But we're talking about Kirchner. Of course, he is known more as an Illustrator than as a painter-in General, then painters rarely survived without massive support from financial bags. But as an Illustrator, he, in principle, is not even bad existed and published about 1,000 postcards, which were very popular-only one series of postcards "Geisha" was issued in circulation of more than 40,000 copies, which at the time is an incredible figure.
And despite the fact that it has already taken place in the States, it has received the greatest recognition in England. Exactly then enters in turnover expression of "Girl Kirchner's" and not in sense moral qualities, namely as image, which is worth emulate and conform to. And the English women tried very hard to be like his pictures. And a year before his death, in 1916, special fame gets his series of portraits, better known as "Ziegfeld Dancers" and now it has already made real symbols-replication and discussion was just a wave and without stopping.
And Raphael Kirchner died in new York at the age of 41 from appendicitis.
