An image from Venus in Furs, one of the productions that also features Leopold von Sacher-Masoch.
Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
January 27, 1836 — Lemberg, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Lviv, Ukraine]
Leopold Ritter von Sacher-Masoch was an Austrian writer and journalist, who gained renown for his romantic stories of Galician life. The term masochism is derived from his name.