Chris Lebeau

[Netherlands] (b 1878/d 1945)

Lebeau began training at the Quellinusschool 1892 to 1895, then at the Amsterdam National School of Applied Arts until 1899. In 1904 he co-founded the Dutch Association of Arts and Crafts Industries and became a teacher at the Haarlem School of Applied Arts until 1914 ..  He was a painter, designer of bookplates and stamps, but worked also with stained glass, woodcuts, was a wall painter and interior decorator, and made many book covers and other Graphic design Work..He traveled to Jordan and Indonesia and like to see himself as a Anarcho-Communist.. during WWII , in 1943 Lebeau and his wife were arrested for helping Dutch Jews.. in 1944 he was transferred to the Dachau concentration Camp, where he died in 1945.. 

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Netherlands 1921 "Air Mail" (3,1) [Engr (Chris Lebeau)][Typo] Sc(C1,..,C3)

Netherlands 1924/1926 "Carrier Pidgeon" (19,1) [Offset/Litho] Sc(142,...,160)

Netherlands 1928 "Air Mail" (2,2,2) [Litho] Sc(C4,C5)

Stanislaw Ostoja-Chrostowski

[Poland] (b 1897/d 1947)

Ostoja-Chrostowski  was a member of the Polish worker representation in Moscow . In December 1918 he was arrested by the Bolsheviks due to suspicion of working for Polish intelligence. Freed in an exchange of prisoners in 1921 year. He was a specialist in graphic design - designed vignettes, securities, postage stamps, telegrams, invitations, Christmas cards, programs, menus, etc., but his greatest passions, which brought him world fame, were illustrations for books and bookplates. In addition of being head of the Paper Division in the Information and Intelligence Headquarters of the Army and member of the Supreme Council of the Society of Polish-Soviet Friendship . Ostoja-Chrostowski was also Professor and Rector of the Warsaw fine Arts Academy..

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Poland 1937 "Marshall Smigly-Rydz" (2,1) [Engr (M.R. Polak)][Recess] Sc(312,313)

Ferdinand Schirnbock

[Austria] (b 1859/d 1930)

"Schirnbock studied at the Art School of the Austrian Trade Museum , and at the Vienna Academy of Art . There he attended a special Engraver class. He first worked in Buenos Aires and designed Argentine banknotes and stamps , for which he sculpted the copper and steel engravings. In 1892 he returned to Austria and worked for the Austria-Hungarian Bank (today Austrian National Bank ) and the State Printing House . With the Designer Koloman Moser he made ​​the engravings for several stamp series that made ​​him internationally famous. In 1906, he engraved the stamp series for Bosnia and Herzegovina , which differed from the then customary representations of heads of state and coat of arms and showed landscapes. The stamp series from 1908 to the 60th jubilee of Emperor Franz Joseph I. ,  influenced by the Art Nouveau was printed multicolored and highly influenced the portrait presentation on stamps" [ Wikipedia ]

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A small text about Schirnbock by Rudolf Junk (In German)
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Germany (Bavaria) 1914/1920 "Prince Luitpold" (21,3,3) [Photo (F.A. Bruckmann, Munich)] Sc(94,...,114)

Norway 1928 "Ibsen Centenary" (4,1) [Des (S. Hennum)][Offset (Emil Moestue & Co.)] Sc(132,...,135) [ Schirnbock is Co- Designer in this stamp, but I don't know what he has designed...]

Norway 1929 "Abel Centenary" (4,1) [Offset (Emil Moestue & Co.)] Sc(145,...,148)

 Norway 1930 "9th Centenary of Saint Olaf" (4,3,3) [Typo (Knudsen) 10o,02o][Litho (Emil Moestue & Co.)15o][Recess (Norwegian Bank Note Printery) 30o] Sc(150,...,153) [ image credit of StampWorld ]

Poland 1930 "Birth Tercentenary of King John III" (1) [Typo] Sc(262)

[This Post could be for the moment highly incomplete and several updates could be made with time..]

Jules Courvoisier

[Switzerland] (b 1884/d 1936)

"Courvoisier was a student of Charles l'Eplattenier . From 1902 to 1906 he stayed in Munich , then to 1909 in Paris at Jacques-Émile Blanche and Eugène Grasset . In addition to numerous posters Courvoisier also created stamps for the Pro Juventute ." (Wikipedia)

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Switzerland 1933 "Pro Youth Fund" (4,4,3) [Photo (L. Courvoisier, La Chaux -de- Fonds)] Sc(B65,...,B67)

Switzerland 1934 "Pro Youth Fund" (4,3,3) [Photo (L. Courvoisier, Chaux-de-Fonds)] Sc(B69,...,B71)

Switzerland 1935 "Pro Youth Fund" (4,3,3) [Photo (L. Courvoisier, Chaux-de-Fonds)] Sc(B73,...,B75)

Switzerland 1936 "Pro Youth Fund" (4,3,3) [Photo (L. Courvoisier, Chaux-de-Fonds)] Sc(B82,...,B84)