Gian Battista Conti

[Italy] (b 1878/d 1971)

"(..) Giambattista Conti was an Italian painter whose works of art are more extensively present in the Maltese islands than anywhere else. Nevertheless he is counted as a locally significant 20th cent. artist of extensive talents who has ably perused various media, though mostly fresco and oil, and produced paintings, graphic designs, mosaics and even stained glass windows that decorate various churches in Italy, Spain and Malta. His Roman studio was a hub of apprentices and upcoming St George’s basilica in Gozo is his showcase. (..)"

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Italy 1923 "Tercentenary of the Congregation 'De Propaganda Fide'" (4,4,4) [Engr (A. Blasi)][Typo (Petiti Bros.)] Sc(143,...,146) [ As You can see the Top Up/Down Right figures are different in all the stamps.. ] [ images credit of StampWorld ]

Muriel Brandt

[Ireland] (b 1909/d 1981)

Muriel Brandt  studied at the Belfast College of Art and at the Royal College of Art in London, where she was elected Associate Royal College of Art (ARCA) in 1937. She married and settled in Dublin, living mainly in Sutton, Dublin and painted mural decorations, portraits and landscapes, as well as working in oil and watercolours. She was elected to the Royal Hibernian Academy (RHA) in 1962. She was commissioned to paint the portraits of many Dublin notables..

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Ireland 1949 "International Recognition of the Republic" (2,1) [Typo] Sc(139,140)

András Biczó

[Hungary] (b 1888/d 1957)

András Biczó studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, where his masters were  Laszlo Hegedus and Imre Revesz. He painted Historical works, landscapes and genre paintings and the Watercolors were his preferred way of expression  . In 1925 he presented his works in a group exhibition in the capital, Budapest.  He created greeting cards and children's books illustrations, many of them during the 1920-1940 period, covers and posters..He often designed folksy, Hungarian style compositions, following the atmosphere of the age. It is a great idea to employ a humorous and lovely figure in the poster, and Biczó could do it in a perfect manner. 

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Hungary 1924 "Tuberculosis Relief Fund" (3,3,1) [Engr (Ferdinand Schirnbock)][Recess] Sc(B77)

Fritz Helmut Ehmcke

[Germany] (b 1878/d 1965)

Fritz Helmut Ehmcke graduated from 1893 to 1897 and  practiced in the exercise of his own profession, working as a lithographer in Berlin. From 1899 to 1901 he studied at the Berlin Museum of Decorative Arts ...From 1903, he taught at the Dusseldorf School of Applied Arts. He settled in Munich from 1913 to 1938 where he worked at the Munich Applied Arts School..(..) From 1946 to 1948 he taught as a professor at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts .. He worked with several Publisher's in the creation of a group of illustrations ...His Graphic Design work is currently known by the development of  letters and fonts, some of them available today in our Personal computers...

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Germany 1922 "Munich Exhibition" (6,1) [Typo] Sc(212,...,217)