Einar Forseth

[Sweden] (b 1892/d 1988)

" Einar Forseth is perhaps best known for its Byzantine -inspired gold mosaics in the Golden Hall of the Stockholm City Hall , whose walls are covered with 18.6 million mosaic pieces of glass and gold colors with allegorical figures and fantasies in ultra-modern style, completed in the spring 1923rd. Forseth have been creating our public environment. He was a monumental artist and glass painter . He is also well represented in the Swedish church buildings around the country. Forseth was also active in the Industrial Art area, and composed and decorated porcelain tableware for Lidköpings porcelain . Within the Art industry he performed the artistic design of objects, which were intended for everyday use or as ornament . He became internationally known for its stained glass windows in the cathedral in Coventry in the western part of the Midlands of England , made in 1962. there ,  he executed glass paintings in the part of the cathedral known as the Chapel of Unity.. Einar Forseth received the title of professor in 1962.." (Wikipedia) 

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Sweden 1920/1926 "Various Designs" (11,2,1) [Engr (ABNC,Ottawa)(Stamp Printing Office, Stockholm 10 ore)][Recess] Sc(116,...,125)

Sweden 1933 "50th Anniversary of the Swedish Postal Saving Bank" (3,1) [Engr (Sven Ewert)][Recess] Sc(236,...,238)

Sweden 1946 "800th Anniversary of Lund Cathedral" (5,2,2) [Engr (Sven Ewert)][Recess] Sc(369,...,373)

Sweden 1946 "50th Anniversary of the Death of Alfred Nobel" (3,1) [Engr (Sven Ewert)][Recess] Sc(380,...,382)

Sweden 1947 "Death Centenary of Erik Gustav Geijer (Historian, Philosopher, Poet and composer)" (3,1) [Engr (Sven Ewert)][Recess] Sc(383,...,385)

Sweden 1947 "Forty Years of the Reign of King Gustav V" (5,1) [Engr (Sven Ewert)][Recess] Sc(386,...,390)

[ I'm going to consider this post as still incomplete, because I only have data from Sweden until 1969, and the Artist died in 1988 , so he  could have designed some more stamps for the Swedish Post... In a few days , I will receive a new catalog from the Scandinavian Countries..Updates could exist in the near future.."

Erik Mailick

[Germany] (b 1907/d 1990)

Erik's father attended the Art Academy in Dresden and became known as an artist and book illustrator in natural, romantic style. He created many postcard motifs...(..) Erik attended elementary school, and in 1927 graduated from high school and then went on to the Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden..(..) With its outstanding achievements he gained a scholarship, was awarded with the "Rome Prize", graduated with honors and was a freelancer until the outbreak of the war since 1932.. (..) Since 1947 he was a member of the Association of Fine Arts of the GDR. Besides painting , the protection of native wild was his purpose in life..(..) He promoted the domestic animal species (Greylag Goose, duck, rabbit, etc.), initiated biotope supportive measures and the installation of nesting boxes..(..) After becoming in 1947 member of the Association of Fine Arts of the GDR, his artistic work was still mainly the painting of animals and wildlife motifs. He illustrated animal books, Illustrated the hunting magazines "Our hunting" and "Wild und Hund", and painted in oil.

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East Germany 1967 "Protected birds" (6,6,6) [Photo] Sc(915,...,920) [ image credit of StampWorld ]

Libya

Stamp Designers from Libya

[LYB] Mohamed Ali Siala

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James Thiriar

[Belgium] (b 1889/d 1965)

James Thiriar was a Belgian artist from Brussels. He fought as member of the 'Garde Civique' (civil guard) and was wounded during the early days of the war. He later escaped to London and joined the regular Belgian army. The Illustrated London News and other periodicals published his drawings. A series of his watercolors depicting life on the Yser and behind the front lines was used as heading for writing paper that was sold to raise money for wounded Belgian soldiers and convalescent homes. Like most Belgian war-time artists, he was not particularly interested in depicting military scenes involving battle or combat. Instead he preferred to illustrate the everyday life of soldiers behind the front lines and like many artists at the time, he was fascinated by the enormous destruction caused by the war and by scenes of ruins and embattled landscapes and destroyed villages. Then again he was a very proficient illustrator of military uniforms and of 'types' of soldiers, as can be seen in many of his line drawings. 

During his wartime service, he was at first attached to the army topographical services where he made detailed maps and drawings of the front lines. In 1916 he was transferred to the 'Section Artistique' of the Belgian army where he organised several expositions of war art in De Panne Belgium and in London. He also produced illustrations for a Belgian soldier's magazine called 'De Ijzer' (Flemish name for the river Yser). In 1917, he illustrated a book called 'Les Vainqueurs de l'Yser'. After the war he published his own book of memoires and illustrations entitled 'Gloire et Misere au Front de Flandres 1914 - 1918' as well as illustrating other books such as 'Robert Vivier et James Thiriar Raconte la Guerre'. 

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Series of Thiriar illustrations called "Uniformes Belges"

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Belgium 1934 "Anti Tuberculosis Fund" (7,1) [Recess (Malines)] Sc(B156,...,B162)

Belgium 1962 "Stamp Day" (1) [Engr (Jean De Bast)][Recess] Sc(578)

Belgium 1964 "Stamp Day" (1) [Engr (Jean De Bast)][Recess] Sc(609)

Belgium 1965 "Stamp Day" (1) [Engr (Jean De Bast)][Recess] Sc(629)