Antique & Vintage Postcards

Reproduced in the warm, slightly rosy tones of Viennese fine-art printing, this pre-WWI Künstler-Karte (artist's card) captures a seated nude model at her dressing table, her reflection caught in the mirror behind her — a composition that walks the genteel line between academic figure study and boudoir fantasy that was the stock-in-trade of the Austro-Hungarian art postcard market. The work is credited to Ed. Adrian Dussek, a Viennese artist whose name appears on several Klophot-Wien art cards of the same period. The multilingual caption — Das Modell / A Modell / Model / Modèle / Модель — reflects the card's intended pan-European distribution, marketed simultaneously across German, English, French, and Russian-speaking audiences, a hallmark of the sophisticated Viennese export postcard trade of the 1900s–1910s. The reverse bears the elegant Art Nouveau-influenced Künstler-Karte branding of Klophot Wien, with number J.K. 54. The card is unused, in clean condition, and represents a collectible sub-genre — Viennese art nude postcards — that retains steady demand among both postcard collectors and Art Nouveau enthusiasts.