Alexey Lipatov hasn’t done a lot of dieselpunk art recently, but some of his earlier work definitively had an impact on the genre. You can see how it combines streamline industrial design with World War II-era, pulp-style characters.
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The Art of Angelique Shelley
Angelique Shelley is a South African artist living in the United Kingdom, who noticed a preponderance of Western characters and influences in steampunk. Her work helps remedy that imbalance.
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The Art of Waldemar von Kozak
There is an obvious Sky Captain influence in Waldemar von Kozak’s art: big flying machines, robots, German villains. It feels more decodence than dark, Piecraftian dieselpunk, reminiscent of midcentury Modern Mechanix and Popular Science covers, yet his is also clearly a world at war.
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The Art of Vadim Voitekhovitch
Vadim Voitekhovitch’s art is proof that everything looks better with airships. It’s hard to pick just a few examples from his DeviantArt profile; all his paintings are gorgeous. Check it out!
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The Art of Stefan Prohaczka
No artist has done more to define the dieselpunk aesthetic than Stefan Prohaczka. All the genre’s influences come together in his work: deco, film noir, midcentury pulp, retro-futurism, totalitarian propaganda. Nobody combines it like Stefan and still make it feel coherent and natural.
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Günter Radtke’s World of Tomorrow
Günter Radtke was a German illustrator who mostly did work for Stern magazine.
He also illustrated various science-fiction stories, including Ulrich Schippke’s Zukunft: Das Bild der Welt von Morgen (“The Future: An Image of the World of Tomorrow”) (1974), which shows self-driving cars, skyscrapers in the sea and various imagined forms of public transportation.
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The Art of Sandor Leidenfrost
Alexander Leydenfrost was born Sandor Leidenfrost in Debrecen in 1888, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He was from a noble family and studied at the Royal Academy of Fine and Applied Arts of Budapest.
The First World War and the subsequent collapse of the monarchy convinced Leydenfrost to emigrate to the United States in 1923. He changed his name to Alexander, which was easier to pronounce for Americans, and found employment as an industrial illustrator.
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The Art of Kurt Röschl
Kurt Röschl (1923-1986) was an Austrian graphic artist and painter who illustrated various science-fiction stories in the 1950s. There’s not much information about him online, but it seems he illustrated quite a lot of books for Erich Dolezal (1902-1990), another Austrian.
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Battlefield 1: Alternate First World War Concept Art
Battlefield 1 is a 2016 video game that takes place in a steampunk’ed World War I. There are battlecruisers, the first tanks, biplanes and zeppelins — all pretty historically accurate, from the looks of it, although these technologies were super modern at the time and not used as spectacularly as in the game.
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The Sky Captain Concept Art of Kevin Conran
Kevin Conran is the mastermind behind dieselpunk classic Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow. He designed everything from the interior and exterior sets to the movie’s characters, costumes, props and vehicles.
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