Stamp Art

Thursday, May 7, 2015

Otte Wallish [ 1st Part (1948/1952) ]

[Czechoslovakia][Israel] (b 1903/d 1977)

" Wallish was born in Sudetenland and served in the Czech army. He had jobs with the Jewish National Fund and United Israel Appeal. He married and then emigrated by boat to Palestine in 1934, a time of increasing peril for European Jews. (...) During the 1930s and 1940s, Wallish worked on artistic arrangement, statistical graphs and other design aspects for books. In 1929, his own book was published. (...) In 1936, Wallish set up a design studio in a building in Nahalat Binyamin, Tel Aviv, that had been chosen as a national landmark. Wallish was responsible for the calligraphy and design of the scroll for Israel's Declaration of Independence...(..) In 1948, too, Wallish took the lead in designing Israel's first postage stamps. He chose a design based on ancient coins, found in archaeological research on the First Jewish-Roman War and the Bar Kochba Revolt. He also designed the first day cover for the stamps' first usage on the first business day after Independence was declared, Sunday, May 16, 1948. Since the name of the state had not yet been determined during the design and secretive printing of the stamps, they were designed with the name Doar Ivri ("Hebrew mail") rather than Israel, the name found on all subsequent postage issues. (..) After Doar Ivri, Wallish continued to be a leading designer of Israeli stamps. "

-----------------------------

Biography and Photo

------------------------------

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Israel 1948 "Ancient Jewish Coins" (9,7,7) [Typo (Haaretz Printing Press, Sarona)] Sc(1,..,9) [ image credit of Stampworld ]

Israel 1948 "Jewish New Year" (5,1) [Litho] Sc(10,...,14)

Israel 1949 "1st Anniversary of Israeli Postage Stamps" (MS) [Litho (Lewin-Epstein,Ltd., Bat Yam)] Sc(16) [ image credit of Stampworld ]

Israel 1949 "70th Anniversary of the founding of Petah-Tikvah" (1) [Litho (LE,Ltd.,Bat Yam)] Sc(27)

Israel 1949 "Second Jewish Coins Issue" (9,8,8) [Litho (LE,Ltd.,Bat Yam)] Sc(17,...,25) [All the designs are the same of Sc /1,...,9) ,plus this 30 stamp...] [ image credit of Stampworld ]

Israel 1949 "Postage Due Stamps" (6,6,6) [Litho (LE,Ltd., Bat Yam)] Sc(J6,...,J11) [ The numeral Changes...]

Israel 1950 "Israel's Membership and 75th Anniversary of UPU" (2,1) [Litho (LE,Ltd.,Bat Yam)] Sc(31,32)

Israel 1950 "Ornamental Bird Types" (6,6,6) [Litho (LE,Ltd.,Bat Yam)] Sc(C1,...,C6) [ image credit of Stampworld ]

Israel 1950 "Third Jewish coins Issue" (12,5,5) [Litho (LE,Ltd.,Bat Yam)] Sc(38,...,43)(56,...,61) [ image credit of Stampworld ]

Israel 1951 "3rd Anniversary of the State of Israel" (2,2,2) [Litho (LE,Ltd., Bat Yam)] Sc(46,47)

Israel 1951 "50th anniversary of the Jewish National Fund" (3,3,2) [Litho (LE,Ltd., Bat Yam)] Sc(48,49)

Israel 1952 "Menora and Emblems" (1) [Litho (LE,Ltd., Bat Yam)] Sc(55)

Israel 1952 "AIR / National Stamp Exhibition" (2,2,2) [Litho (LE,Ltd., Bat Yam)] Sc(C7,...,C8) [ image credit of Stampworld ]

Israel 1952 "4th Anniversary of the Independence" (3,3,3) [Litho (LE,Ltd., Bat Yam)] Sc(62,...,64) [ image credit of Stampworld ]

Israel 1952 "Jewish New Year" (4,4,4) [Litho (LE, Ltd., Bat Yam)] Sc(66,...,69) [ image credit of Stampworld ]

Israel 1952 "Postage Due" (9,1) [Litho (LE,Ltd., Bat Yam)] Sc(J12,...,J20)

Tuesday, May 5, 2015

Alexander Nikolaevich Volkov

[Russia] (b 1886/d 1957)

" Alexander Volkov was born in Fergana, near Tashkent in the Russian Empire. (..) Between 1888 and 1900 he studied in primary schools in Tashkent. Between 1900-1905 Volkov was enrolled with the Second Orenburg Cadets Corps. In 1906, he started his college study in the Physics and Mathematics Faculty at the St Petersburg University,[but abandoned it two years later to join the studio of Vladimir Makovsky, who at the time was an instructor at the Superior School of Art at the Imperial Academy of Arts. A big influence on his artistic development was his attendance at the private studio of M.D. Bernstein (..) In 1912, Volkov moved to Kiev to study at the Kiev School of Arts. (..) In 1919 Volkov was named the first director of the State Museum of Arts of Central Asia, which had been given the former palace of the Grand Duke Constantine Romanov in Tashkent to house its collection. From 1920 to 1946, Volkov taught at the Tashkent School of Arts.(..) When the campaign against free-thinking artists, writers and painters began in the USSR following orders from Stalin, Volkov was labeled as an anti-communist formalist and abstractionist. He was fired from all his posts, lost all his earnings and money, and was committed to living in full isolation. (..)

----------------

Biography

----------------

Photo

------------

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Russia 1929 "Industrial Loan Propaganda" (4,4,1) [Typo] Sc(430)

Russia 1930 "10th Anniversary of First Red Cavalry" (4,4,4) [Typo] Sc(431,...,434)

Russia 1931 "AIR / Airship Construction Fund" (5,5,1) [Photo] Sc(C19)

Russia 1932 "40th Anniversary of the Publication of 'Makar Schadra«" (2,1) [Photo] Sc(470,471)

Russia 1934 "10th Anniversary of Lennin's Death" (5,1) [Engr (A. Troisty)][Recess] Sc(524,...,528)

Eugen Taru

[Romania] (b 1913/1991)

" Eugen Taru was a Romanian graphic artist, best known for his work in the political cartoon, caricature, comic strip and book illustration genres. Active throughout the communist period and first acknowledged as one among the young socialist realists promoted by the regime, Taru primarily associated with satirical magazines such as Urzica. Recognized early on for his controversial involvement with the propaganda apparatus, he later focused on his work for children, and became one of the noted visual artists employed by the Editura Ion Creangă publishing house. Also known as art collectors, he and his wife Josefina donated one of the principal estates exhibited by the Museum of Art Collections. His own works are featured in several Romanian museums." (Wikipedia)

--------------------

Biography

--------------------

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Romania 1950 "State Plane 1950" (2,2,2) [Photo] Sc(727,728) [ image credit of Stampworld ]