Nguyen Phan Chanh

[Vietnam] (b 1892/d 1984)

Nguyen Phan Chanh was born on 21st July 1892 in Trung Tiet in the Ha Thinh Province at the centre of Vietnam and was educated by his father, a Confucian scholar. When his father passed away when he was 7, he helped his mother selling his drawings in the markets as well as drawing from photos presented to him. Later on, he taught Chinese writing and in 1922, he entered the Hue Pedagogy School. He graduated in 1923 and started teaching in Dong Ba Primary School in Hue, Central Vietnam. He was the only candidate from the central region of Vietnam to be admitted in the first batch of students at the Indochina Fine Art School. (..). At the same time, encouraged by Victor Tardieu and Nam Son, he developed an interest in silk painting. (..) After 1933, failing to be appointed a teacher at the Hanoi Academy of Fine Art, Nguyen Phan Chanh returned to his native province. He started promoting his work and chose to exhibit at the Hanoi Real Estate Bank as well as in the SADEAI (Socit Annamite d'encouragement l'art et l'industrie ) where some of the early French collectors were able to acquire his works. (..)  In 1945, Nguyen Phan Chnh became an executive member of Ha Tinh province Association for Salvation of National Culture and was also involved in the war of independence, painting propaganda and campaigning posters. (..) In 1955, he was invited to lecture in the Hanoi Academy of Fine Art. .  Nguyen posthumously received the highest award by the Vietnam Socialist Republic: the Ho Chi Minh prize for Literature and Art. 

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Indo-China 1931/1941 "Various Designs" (34,4,1) [Die engraver (Hourriez)][Photo (Helio Vaugirard,Paris)] Sc(158,...,166)

Jacques Wiener

[Germany][Belgium] (b 1815/d 1899)

"Belgian engraver; born at Hoorstgen, Rhine Province, 1815; died at Brussels Nov. 3, 1899. When thirteen years of age he was sent to Aix-la-Chapelle to be instructed in drawing, modeling, and engraving by his uncle Baruch, who was an artist of considerable merit. In 1835 Wiener went to Paris for further study; and in 1839 he settled in Brussels as a medal-engraver. His work attained a high degree of perfection, and his reputation as a medalist spread to foreign countries, notably Germany. He was especially distinguished for his fidelity to the minutest details. In 1872 he lost his eyesight through overwork, and was compelled to renounce his art, which, however, he had taught to his brothers Karl Wiener (d. 1867) and Leopold Wiener. 

Wiener was decorated with the Order of the Leopold Knights and with that of the Prussian Eagle. 

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Biographical Dictionary of Medalists

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Luxembourg 1852 "Grand Duke William III" (3,1) [Engr (J.H. Robinson)][Recess (F.Barth-Wahl, Luxembourg)] Sc(1,2,3)

Charles Louis Baugniet

[Belgium] (b 1814/d 1886)

"He attended the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels during 1827-29. His first attempts with lithography date from 1827, and his reputation grew steadily with the appearance of his first portraits in the magazine L'Artiste in 1833. (..) He was commissioned to do portraits of the Belgian Royal Family, and this led to his appointment as court painter in 1841. In 1843 he moved to London where he became a leading society portrait painter, creating a portrait of Prince Albert in 1851. Later he often returned to London to do portraits of celebrities such as Charles Dickens and the French composer Hector Berlioz. Baugniet also designed the first Belgian postage stamp (the so-called Epaulettes type) brought into circulation on 1 July 1849. The stamp depicted Leopold I of Belgium after a painting by Liéven De Winne." 

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Belgium 1849 "Leopold I of Belgium" (2,1) [Engr (J.H. Robinson)][Recess]  Sc(1,2) [ all the Process was made with the Supervision of Jacques Wiener ] [ image credit of Stampworld ]

Belgium 1849/1850 "Leopold I of Belgium" (3,1) [Engr (J.H.Robinson)][Recess] Sc(3,4,5) [ image credit of Stampworld ]

Kurt Plowitz

[Czechoslovakia][USA] (b 1912/d 1969)

"This Czech-born American artist and illustrator supposedly designed the yellow smiley face for a 1951 or '52 UNICEF fundraising campaign called "A Smile for UNICEF," but since the United Nations never copyrighted the image it was picked up in the mid-1960s and has become an icon; as a staff artist for the U.N. Graphic Presentation Unit , he was quite active between 1956 and 1964 and designed several U.N. stamps. (..)" 

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United Nations (New York) 1956 "United Nations Day" (2,1) [Recess (De La Rue)] Sc(45,46)

Belgium 1958 "United Nations Commemoration" (15,15,1) [Engr (C. Leclercqz)][Recess] Sc(524) [ image credit of Stampworld ]

United Nations (New York) 1961 "International Court of Justice" (2,1) [Photo (Government Printing Works, Tokyo)] Sc(88,89)

United Nations (New York) 1961/1964 "Various Designs" (9,9,1) [Photo (Harrison & Sons, Co.)] Sc(104) [1962]

United Nations (New York) 1962 "UN Committee on Peaceful Uses of Outer Space" (2,1) [Recess (Bradbury Wilkinson)] Sc(112,113)

United Nations (New York) 1963 "Air Mail" (5,5,1) [Photo Courvoisier)] Sc(C10)

United Nations (New York) 1963 "United Nations General Assembly Buildings" (2,1) [Photo (GPW,Tokyo)] Sc(119,120)

United Nations (New York) 1964 "Narcotics Control" (2,1) [Recess (Canadian Bank Note Co.)] Sc(131,132)

United Nations (New York) 1964 "Education for Progress" (3,1) [Photo (Courvoisier)] Sc(134,...,136) [ 11c image is credit of Stampworld ]

United Nations (New York) 1965 "ITU Centenary" (2,1) [Photo (Curvoisier)] Sc(141,142)

United Nations (New York) 1965 "Various Designs" (5,5,1) [Photo (GPW,Tokyo)] Sc(146)

United Nations (New York) 1966 "20th Anniversary of UNICEF" (3,3,3) [Litho (De La Rue)] Sc(161,...,163)