Erich Gruner [ 1st Part (1947/1955) ]

[Germany] (b 1881/1966)

from 1900 to 1905 Erich Gruner studied at the Leipzic Academy of Visual Arts, and then travelled to Paris where he remained one year , having lessons with Jean Paul Laurens...the period from 1909 to 1912 was for sure more relaxed , with travels to Portugal, Spain and Italy...after returning, he began to have some Artistic recognition, but this short period was interrupted by WWI, where he was wounded twice...in 1919 he made some designs , posters and the Logotype for the Leipzig Fair ... He was the Director of the Leipzig School of Applied Arts from 1930 to 1946..His Art work covers a wide range of specialties : Book covers, illustration, Posters, Postage stamps, Typography, Logotypes,  Stage and set designs, etc..

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Germany 1947 "Leipzig Spring Fair" (2,2,2) [Engr (K. Wolf)][Recess (Giesecke & Devrient, Leipzig)] Sc(B296,B297) [ image Credit of StampWorld ][ Joint Allied Zone ]

Germany 1947 "Leipzig Autumn Fair" (2,2,2) [Litho (SPW,Berlin)] Sc(580,581) [ image Credit of StampWorld ][ Joint Allied Zone ]

Germany 1948 "Leipzig Spring Fair" (2,2,2) [Engr (L. Schnell)][Recess (SPW,Berlin)] Sc(582,583) [ image Credit of StampWorld ][ Joint Allied Zone ]

Germany 1949 "Leipzig Spring Fair" (2,2,2) [Engr (K. Wolf)][Litho] Sc(??) [ image Credit of StampWorld ][Russian Zone]

Germany 1949 "Leipzig Autumn Fair" (2,2,2) [Litho] Sc(??) [ image Credit of StampWorld ][Russian Zone]

East Germany 1950 "Leipzig Spring Fair" (2,2,2) [Engr (K. Wolf)][Recess (German Bank note, Leipzig)] Sc(B15,B16) [ image Credit of StampWorld ]

East Germany 1951 "German Soviet Friendship" (2,2,2) [Engr (K. Wolf)][Litho (GBN,Leipzig)] Sc(92,93) [ image Credit of StampWorld ]

East Germany 1952 "450th Anniversary of  Halle-Wittenberg University" (1) [Photo (Druckhaus Einhelt)] Sc(111)

East Germany 1953 "7th Centenary of Frankfurt-on-Oder" (4,4,4) [Litho (GBN,Leipzig)] Sc(151,...,154) [ image Credit of StampWorld ]

East Germany 1953 "Five Year Plan" (18,18,18) [Litho (GBN,Leipzig)] Sc(187,...,204) [ image Credit of StampWorld ]

East Germany 1953 "Leipzig Autumn Fair" (2,2,2) [Photo (GBN,Leipzig)] Sc(172,173) [ image Credit of StampWorld ]

East Germany 1953 "Stamp Day" (1) [Photo (GBN,Leipzig)] Sc(178)

East Germany 1953 "75th Anniversary of the Leipzig Zoo" (1) [Photo (Druckhaus Einhelt)] Sc(179)

East Germany 1954 "4th Power Conference, Berlin" (Photo (GBN, Leipzig)] Sc(206)

East Germany 1954 "Leipzig Autumn Fair" (2,1) [Photo (GBN,Leipzig)] Sc(214,215)

East Germany 1954 "5th Anniversary of German Democratic Republic" (2,1) [Photo (GBN,Leipzic)] Sc(224,225)

East Germany 1955 "Leipzig Spring Fair" (2,2,2) [Photo (GBN,Leipzig)] Sc(231,232)            [ image Credit of StampWorld ]

East Germany 1955 "45th Anniversary of the International Women's Day" (2,1) [Photo (GBN,Leipzig)] Sc(233,234)

East Germany 1955 "International Congress of Municipal Workers" (1) [Photo (GBN,Leipzig)] Sc(235)

East Germany 1955 "Leipzig Autumn Fair" (2,2,2) [Photo (GBN,Leipzig)] Sc(253,254)  [ image Credit of StampWorld ]

East Germany 1955 "Dresden Gallery Paintings (1st Series)" (6,6,6) [Photo (GBN,Leipzig)] Sc(272,...,277)  [ image Credit of StampWorld ]

Eduard Ege

[Germany] (b 1893/d 1978)

" Eduard Ege lived since 1898 in Munich. He was a pupil of Julius Diez at the School of Applied Arts and worked as an illustrator for Georg Müller Verlag and the 'Three Masks' publisher . From 1921 to 1926 he was a teacher of Commercial Art at the Munich training Workshops ...from 1926 to1935 he was director and owner of the training Workshops. (..) He taught at the Stuttgart School of Applied Arts.  As a commercial artist , Ege designed in 1945 the Bavarian Coat of Arms and the logo used until 1993 by the German Federal Railroad . In 1957 he made ​​the design for the new Munich City Coat of Arms." ( Wikipedia )

He has very diverse works in Wood engravings, Book covers, Posters, stamps, illustrations, Publicity, Ex-Libris, etc...  ( GermanDesigners.net )

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West Germany 1958 "800 Anniversary of Munich" (1) [Engr (E. Falz)][Recess] Sc(785)

West Germany 1960 "37th World Eucharistic Congress of Roman Catholics, Munich" (2,1) [Recess] Sc(811,812)

West Germany 1960 "1000th Anniversary of Birth of St. Bernward and St. Godehard" (1) [Engr (G. Braband)][Recess] Sc(817)

West Germany 1961 "Pathfinders / German Boy Scouts"" (1) [Engr (H. Braband)][Recess] Sc(823)

West Germany 1961 "900th Anniversary of the Speyer Cathedral"" (1) [Engr (H.J. Fuchs)][Recess] Sc(843)

West Germany 1962 "2nd Millenary of Mainz" (1) [Engr (H. Braband)][Recess] Sc(848)

West Germany 1962 "Catholic's Day" (1) [Engr (E. Falz)][Recess] Sc(850)

West Germany 1963 "CRALOG and CARE Relief Organizations" (1) [Engr (E. Falz)][Recess] Sc(855)

West Germany 1963 "Centenary of Paris Postal Conference" (1) [Engr (J.H. Fuchs)][Recess] Sc(863)

West Germany 1964 "1200th Anniversary of the Benedictine Abbey of Ottobeuren" (1) [Recess][Litho] Sc(880)

West Germany 1967 "13th German Evangelical Churches Day" (1) [Engr (J.H. Fuchs)][Recess][Litho] Sc(972)

West Germany 1967 "450th Anniversary of Lutter's Theses and Reformation" (1) [Engr (J.H. Fuchs)][Recess] Sc(976)

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( there is data missing from 1968 to 1978.. I will make an Update in a Few days...)

Jean Kerhor

[France] (b 1876/d 1974)

One of Andres Dupuis Uncle's  was a painter and was the responsible for his initial approach to painting and drawing.. Andres attended the Nancy Fine Arts School  in 1901 after finishing his Army time..The School award him with a 1st Prize in the End of his studies ... After leaving Nancy, Andres Dupuis arrived in Paris where he started to work in the Ministry of Colonies .It was then that he decided to use the name Jean Kerhor for his extracurricular design activities... during the next 30 years he worked in the Secretariat of the Colonies and his reputation as a skilled designer  continued to grow among the Officials and Administrators . After some illustrations of Colonial books and Documents , good reviews began to arrive., attracting this way , more and more work... Andres also learn Wood engraving with the Master Maurice Denis and some time later , two of his works were bought by the French State..; at this time we are invited to think that Kerhor was the only one blessed by Fame and Prosperity, but we need to know that Andres Dupuis also became famous for being a great collector,  and after his death,3 important collections were in exhibition in several museums (none of them of Postage stamps, unfortunately..)..He moved to the small village of Etretat in Normandy where he lived his final Years..

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Detailed Biography and Work

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Togo 1924/1938 "Various Designs" (37,3,3) [Engr (A. Delzers)][Typo] Sc(216,...,252)

Cameroun 1925/1938  "Various Designs" (42,3,3) [Engr (G. Daussy)][Typo] Sc(170,...,211)

Cameroun 1925/1927 "Postage Due Stamps" (13,1) [Engr (G. Daussy)][Typo] Sc(J1,...,J13)

Togo 1925 "Cotton Field" (11,1) [Engr (A. Delzers)][Typo] Sc(J9,...,J19)

Tunisia 1928 "Child Welfare / 1st Tunis-Chad Motor Service" (7,1) [Recess (Institute De Gravure, Paris)] Sc(B47,...,B53)

Chad 1930 "Various Designs (Postage Due Stamps)" (11,2,2) [Engr (G. Daussy)][Typo] Sc(J12,...,J22)

New Hebrides  1938 "Lovepi Island and Copra Canoe" (12,1) [Recess (Bradbury Wilkinson & Co. Ltd)] Sc(55,...,66)