Tuesday, June 30, 2015

Chris Lebeau

[Netherlands] (b 1878/d 1945)


Lebeau began training at the Quellinusschool 1892 to 1895, then at the Amsterdam National School of Applied Arts until 1899. In 1904 he co-founded the Dutch Association of Arts and Crafts Industries and became a teacher at the Haarlem School of Applied Arts until 1914 ..  He was a painter, designer of bookplates and stamps, but worked also with stained glass, woodcuts, was a wall painter and interior decorator, and made many book covers and other Graphic design Work..He traveled to Jordan and Indonesia and like to see himself as a Anarcho-Communist.. during WWII , in 1943 Lebeau and his wife were arrested for helping Dutch Jews.. in 1944 he was transferred to the Dachau concentration Camp, where he died in 1945.. 

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Netherlands 1921 "Air Mail" (3,1) [Engr (Chris Lebeau)][Typo] Sc(C1,..,C3)


Netherlands 1924/1926 "Carrier Pidgeon" (19,1) [Offset/Litho] Sc(142,...,160)


Netherlands 1928 "Air Mail" (2,2,2) [Litho] Sc(C4,C5)







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