The male nude has always exerted a great attraction on artists and viewers alike. The 13 works of art presented in this calendar reflect the fascinating diversity in the depiction of the unclothed body. Our selection includes the delicate bronze statue of an athlete by Aristide Maillol; the sketches of an archer by August Macke; a modern classic by Ferdinand Hodler; works by Nordic artists such as Eugène Jansson, Ivan Lönnberg and Venny Soldan-Brofeldt; expressive paintings by Anton Kolig; and further paintings by Johannes Echarius Carolus Alberti, Henri Edmond Cross, Fritz Erler and Ludwig von Hofmann. The cover shows the Russian boxer Boris Mikhailovich Snezhkovsky as depicted by Konstantin Somov.