Wilhelm Iwan Friederich August von Gloeden, commonly known as Baron von Gloeden, was a German photographer who worked mainly in Italy. He is mostly known for his pastoral nude studies of Sicilian boys
Wilhelm von Gloeden in 1891
Boy disguised as an odalisque in Gloeden's garden in Taormina. The reverse bears the stamp of Gloeden's heir, Pancrazio Buciunì, and the date: May 16, 1914
Burial Place of von Gloeden in Taormina
Reclining Male Nude Beside Vase at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Guglielmo Plüschow was a German photographer who moved to Italy and became known for his nude photos of local youths, predominantly males. Plüschow was a cousin of Wilhelm von Gloeden, who, despite ta
Wilhelm von Gloeden
…married Charlotte Wilhemine Crull (1831–1891), the daughter of Hermann von Gloeden's half-sister, and one of their children was the male photographer Wilhelm von Plüschow. After the death of his father, his mother married for a third time, to Wilhelm Joachim von Hammerstein in 1864. Hammerstein (1838–1904) had been…
Wilhelm von Plüschow as photographed by his cousin Wilhelm von Gloeden (c. 1890)
Male Nude Seated on Leopard Skin at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, c. 1890s–1900s
Wilhelm von Pluschow – Vincenzo Galdi, Posillipo (Napoli), c. 1890
Boy Posed as John the Baptist