Stamp Art

Wednesday, August 19, 2015

Max Buchholz

[Germany] (b 1878/d 1942)

Max Buchholz, painter, artist and engraver (born 13 February 1878 in Legnica ). He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin and Wroclaw. He was a teacher of Art classes and a member of the association of amateur artists of Gdansk (Danzig). (..) He designed vignettes to a series of telegrams and postcards with famous citizens of the city: Johannes Hevelius, Daniel Chodowieckego, Arthur Schopenhauer." He was also a great Stamp Designer...

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Danzig 1921 "AIR MAIL" (6,2,2) [Typo] Sc(C4,...,C9)

Danzig 1921/1922 "Coat of Arms" (4,1) [Typo (J. Sauer)] Sc(77,...,80)

Danzig 1922 "Coat of Arms" (15,3,2) [Typo (J. Sauer)] Sc(94,95)

Danzig 1923 "Coats of Arms" (7,3,3) [Typo] Sc(106,...,112)

Danzig 1923 "Charity" (2,1) [Typo (J. Sauer)] Sc(B4,B5)

Danzig 1924/1939 "Coat of Arms" (23,1) [Typo] Sc(168,...,192)

Danzig 1935 "Winter Relief Fund" (3,3,3) [Typo] Sc(B12,B13,B14) [ image credit of StampWorld ]

Danzig 1936 "125th Anniversary of Brosen" (3,3,3) [Typo] Sc(216,...,218) [ image credit of StampWorld ]

Danzig 1936 "Winter Relief Fund" (5,5,5) [Typo] Sc(B15,...,B19) [ image credit of StampWorld ]

Danzig 1937 "Winter Relief Fund" (5,5,5) [Typo] Sc(B23,...,B27) [ image credit of StampWorld ]

[ Updates are possible , because there are some Air Mail stamps issued in 1923 and 1924 that look's like design work of Max Buchholz, but I don't have any catalog data that verify this fact... ]

Tuesday, August 18, 2015

Janko Alexy

[Czechoslovakia] (b 1894/d 1970)

Janko Alexy was a painter and also a writer. He was awarded the title of "National Artist". After ending his education at the Lucenec High School , he spent some time working in a local pharmacy ... in 1919 he continued his studies in the Prague Visual Arts Academy and after graduation he worked as Drawing professor .. for 1927 on he devoted himself only to the Artistic Activity.. Janko extensive work contains about 1,300 oils, pastels and drawings inspired by folk works, legends and landscapes and about 20 books , mainly dedicated to his childhood and youth personal experiences...

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Czechoslovakia 1948 "Centenary of Abolition of Serfdom" (1) [Photo] Sc(350)

Hugo Fleury

[Great Britain] (b 1893/d 1983)

I cannot find nothing about Hugo's Fleury Education...at the age of 30 he was a Waterlow and Son's Employee and designed stamps and Bank notes for several countries...

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Great Site about the Fleury Family

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Gambia 1935 "King George V Silver Jubilee" (4,1) [Recess (Waterlow and Sons, London)] Sc(125,...,128) [ This was a Common Design to many of the Empire States ]

Cayman Islands 1938 "Definitive series" (12,5,1) [Recess (Waterlow and Sons, London)] Sc(105,110)

Great Britain 1949 "Universal Postal Union" (4,4,1) [Photo] Sc(276,...,279)

[ Many updates are possible because Hugo Fleury was a common worker of a Big Company so his individuality as an Artist was somehow 'forgotten' with 'solo' benefit for the Company...why can't this knowledge of the individual designers and engravers of the 'Big Company's ' in the 'early days' be shared?? and those who have access to it, why can't they share it?? is it some kind of Treasure??? The world will end?? I'm a little tired of seeing "Engraved by Waterlow and Sons," "Designed by De La Rue"...well , I use to say "donkey voices never reach the Heaven's" and that's what I'm doing now , just wasting words... ]

Boris Angelushev [ 1st Part (1938/1953) ]

[Bulgaria] (b 1902/d 1966)

"Boris Angelushev was born in Plovdiv. He learned the art of engraving from professor F. Shpigel and H. Mait and studied at the Berlin Art Academy ...He has made many illustrations, caricatures and stamps . Also drawn comics in the 1940s, but it is unknown for what publications."

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Bulgaria 1938 "Agricultural Products" (20,10,4) [Photo] Sc(316,...,335)