Eugen Zotow

[Russia] (b 1881/d 1953)

Ivan Grigoryevich Mjassojedow  was a Russian painter, draftsman, printmaker, photographer and philosopher. During the years of exile in Liechtenstein from 1938 to 1953, he led the name Eugen Zotow. His first artistic training was Mjassojedow in Poltava at the private school of painting of his father, the painter Grigoriy Myasoyedov ; he studied in Moscow at the School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture from 1907 to 1912 and he next attended the painting class at the Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg. Three scholarships allowed him traveling to Rome, Munich, Paris and London. (..) The Russian Revolution and the Civil War put an end to this phase of life. Around 1919 the family fled to the Crimea, Sevastopol and continue on Trieste to Germany. (..) He spent a total of 13 years in Berlin (...) In 1936 traveled out of Germany and arrived to Liechtenstein where he was one of the first freelance artist working as an outsider. (..) [ Wikipedia ]

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Biography and Photo

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Liechtenstein 1939 "Homage to Francis Joseph II" (3,1) [Engr (Eugen Zotow)][Recess (Government Printing Works, Vienna)] Sc(154,...,156)

Liechtenstein 1942 "600th Anniversary of the Separation from Estate at Montfort" (5,5,5) [Recess (PTT Bureau, Berne)] Sc(176,...,180) [ image credit of StampWorld ]

Liechtenstein 1943 "Completion of Irrigation Canal" (4,4,4) [Frame Des (J. Troyer)][Photo (Courvoisier)] Sc(192,...,195) [ image credit of StampWorld ]

Adomas Galdikas

[Lithuania] (b 1893/d 1969)

Studied Painting in St. Petersburg and attended Applied Arts at Berlin..(..) later he continued his studies in Sweden, Italy and France..  He won painting and design competitions , while still a student..(..) from 1923 to 1940 he worked at the Kaunas Applied Arts Institute.. (..) in 1947 he moved to Paris where he stayed until 1952 , time when he crossed the Atlantic and settled in New York..(..) he made his first exhibitions starting 1920 inside and outside Lithuania..in 1937 he was awarded with several prizes in the Paris World Exhibition..

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Lithuania 1920 "2nd Anniversary of the Independence" (11,4,2) [Litho (Margolinas, Kovno)] Sc(77,...,80)

Lithuania 1923/1924 "Various Designs" (9,3,3) [Litho] Sc(165,...,173)

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Victor Brown

[Great Britain][Ireland] (b 1900/d 1953)

Victor Brown was an illustrator and, under the pseudonym Bee, a political cartoonist for the Irish Press. Born in England, the son of a British soldier, his family lived in Ireland for some time during his childhood, and he settled in Dublin in his twenties. He illustrated books, magazines, and broadsides edited by his friend F. R. Higgins and W. B. Yeats. He also designed sets for the theatre, and designed a postage stamp commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Easter Rising in 1941. ( Irish Comics Wiki )

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Ireland 1941 "25th Anniversary of the Easter Rising (1916)" (1) [Typo (Government Printing Works, Dublin)] Sc(120)

Leo Whelan

[Ireland] (b 1892/d 1956)

Born in Dublin and educated at Belvedere College and the Metropolitan School of Art, Whelan was a student of William Orpen. He first exhibited at the Royal Hibernian Academy in 1911, and was awarded the Taylor Art Scholarship five years later in 1916. He exhibited nearly 250 works at the RHA from 1911 until 1956. He painted many portraits of Irish Republican Army volunteers, including General Richard Mulcahy and Michael Collins. He was the designer of the first Free State commemorative stamp, issued in 1929 for the Centenary of Catholic Emancipation, a portrait of Daniel O'Connell.. One of his closest friends was tenor John McCormack, who unsuccessfully tried to persuade Whelan to move to the United States ( wikipedia )

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Ireland 1929 "Catholic Emancipation Centenary" (3,1) [Typo (Government Printing Works, Dublin)] Sc(80,81,82)

Ireland 1954 "Centenary of Cardinal Newman's Rectorship of the Catholic University of Ireland" (2,1) [Typo (GPW, Dublin)] Sc(153,154)