Stamp Art: Francisco Eppens Helguera

[Mexico] (b 1913/d 1990)

" Francisco Eppens Helguera was a Mexican artist known for his paintings, murals and sculptures of images and scenes distinctly Mexican. He also achieved international fame for his award winning modern designs for Mexican postage and revenue stamps (1935–1953) and for his 1968 redesign of the Mexican coat of arms, still used today on Mexican government documents, coins and the national flag. (..) In 1920, the family moved to Mexico City, where Eppens received his primary education. In 1927, he enrolled in a bachellor's degree program in engineering and architecture at the Escuela Nacional Preparatoria of the National Autonomous University of Mexico.. Eppens left that program, however, and the following year studied painting and sculpture at the "Escuela de Artes Plásticas" (School of Fine Arts) of the Academia de San Carlos. For a few years, Eppens designed advertisements and posters, and starting in 1930 he worked at the Industria Cinematográfica Nacional as an artist.. (..) In 1935, Eppens was employed by the Mexican government office which produced postage stamps and government securities, the Talleres de Impresión de Estampillas y Valores de México. Between 1935 and 1951, he designed a large number of postage and revenue stamps in a modernist style... His stamp designs were popular internationally, receiving awards for "one of the best 10 stamps in the world" (1939) and "one of the six best stamps in the world" (1940), both awarded by Scott's Monthly Stamp Journal, and an exhibition of his stamps was held at the Collectors Club of New York in 1944..(..) In the 1940s and 1950s, Eppens painted many murals in the interiors of institutional buildings. In the 1960s, he created similar glass mosaic murals for the exteriors of buildings, as well as some large metal sculptures. In the 1970s and 1980s he primarily created paintings. "

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Mexico 1938 "16th International Town Planning and Housing Congress, Mexico city" (12,12,6) [Photo] Sc(740,...,745)(C85,...,C90) [ images credit of Stampworld ]

Mexico 1939 "New York World Fair" (1) [Photo] Sc(746)

Mexico 1939 "Tulsa Philatelic convention,USA" (1) [Photo] Sc(747)

Mexico 1939 "Census Taking" (6,6,6) [Photo] Sc(751,...,753)(C100,...,C102) [ images credit of Stampworld ]

Mexico 1940 "Opening of Highway from Mexico city to Guadalajara" (1) [Photo] Sc(759)

Mexico 1940 "400th anniversary of the Founding of Campeche" (4,4,4) [Photo] Sc(763)(C111,...,C113) [ images credit of Stampworld ]

Mexico 1940 "Inauguration of President Camacho" (6,1,1) [Photo] Sc(764,...,766)(C114,...,C116) [ images credit of Stampworld ]

Mexico 1942 "Inauguration of the Astrophysical Observatory of Tonanzintla" (6,6,6) [Photo] Sc(774,...,776)(C123,...,C125) [ images credit of Stampworld ]