Stamp Art: Bert Jager

[Germany] (b 1919/d 1998)

The Artist in 1988

"Bert Jäger went to school in Karlsruhe and studied from 1934 to 1939 at the Art Academy , with Hermann Goebel and Siegfried Czerny ,among others. (..) he was wounded in Battle after being recruited by Wehrmacht in 1939...after some time in a Vienna hospital,he was again sent to the front where he became a prisoner of the Soviet Army in 1944...After his return from captivity Bert Jäger also resumed his artistic activity (..) In the following years he received numerous public contracts, so he designed, among other 1958 a mural for the Interior Ministry in Stuttgart and a year later, together with Richard Bampi a ceramic wall in the employment office in Freiburg.(..) In addition, Jäger worked as a commercial artist : he designed stamps, illustrated books and worked as a photographer.(..) In the early sixties, Bert Jäger - influenced by Abstract Expressionism - made the transition to gestural painting. His versatile activities as a photographer, graphic designer and writer were incorporated into work and influenced his collage-like style between color fields and figuration. (..)"

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Photo and Biography : wikipedia

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Germany 1956 "Humanitarian Relief Fund" (4,4,4) [Litho] Sc(B350,...,B353) [ Image credit of Stampworld ]