Wednesday, October 14, 2015

Georges Gimel

[France] (b 1898/d 1962)


"Georges Gimel lived at Domène and at Grenoble, where he studied at the Ecole des Arts Industriels, until the age of 16 at which time he moved to Paris (..) In 1916 he studied at the École des Beaux-Arts of Paris, at the Studio of Jean-Paul Laurens and at the Ecole des Arts Décoratifs. After the war in 1919 he returned at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, at the Studio of Jean-Antoine Injalbert and at the same time he will become a pupil of the Académie Julian and also worked together with his warf riend the sculptor Henri Bouchard.(..) An artistic dynamo, he linked the schools of beaux arts and commercial/artistic design: He created fabric designs for clothing designers Paul Poiret and Jean Patou.(..) In Paris, numerous exhibitions at the Art Gallery’s, (..)  gained him worldwide recognition. (..) In 1930, Gimel began to create immense frescoes (..) and one of this works will be owned by the Vatican and another by the Bibliothèque Nationale of Paris. (..) In 1937 Gimel took part in the Exposition Universelle de Paris and there he created the interior design for the Pavillon du Dauphiné...(..) for 1945 on he devoted himself to his art and to the making of his enamels where his genius allowed him to combine technical and practical aspects to create an indestructible form of enamel painting. In 1949, he exhibited 91 enamel works at the Art Gallery Bernheim Jeune in Paris. Later, thanks to the Ministère des Affaires Etrangères, several of his enamels were sent abroad to Rome (Italy) and Saarbrücken, (Germany) others were part of a traveling exhibition in the United States who started at the Yale University Art Gallery in 1954. "

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St. Pierre and Miquelon 1932 "Various Designs" (24,3,3) [Engr (C. Hourriez)(E. Feltesse)(Jules Piel)][Typo] Sc(136,...,159)




St. Pierre and Miquelon 1932 "Postage due Stamps / NewFoundland Dog" (11) [Engr (Abel Mignon)][Typo] Sc(J21,...,J31)



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Monday, October 12, 2015

Joana Bielschowsky [ 1st Part / Brazil Stamps ]

[Brazil] (b 1950)


Joana Bielschowsky was born in the city of Rio De Janeiro.. She studied drawing and Painting in the Modern Art Museum of Rio de Janeiro.. also attended classes of painting in the Rio de Janeiro Fine Arts Institute.. she has also a specialization in Industrial Design and visual Programming at the Superior School of Industrial Design and has exhibited several times Nationally and Internationally.. Joana is the designer of several Brazilian and Mexican stamps and she is best know in Mexico by her married name Joana Bielschoswsky Aguirre..

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Brazil 1976 "27th International Military Athletics" (1) [Litho] Sc(1472)


Brazil 1976 "Inauguration of São Paulo Underground Railway" (1) [Litho] Sc(1476)


Brazil 1977 "150th Anniversary of the National Observatory" (1) [Litho] Sc(1529)


Brazil 1978 "50th Anniversary of the South Atlantic Flight by Del Prete and Ferrarin" (1) [Litho] Sc(1564)


Brazil 1979 "Inauration of Rio de Janeiro Underground Railway" (1) [Litho] Sc(1601)


Brazil 1980 "National Health Day" (1) [Litho] Sc(1708)


Brazil 1981 "Centenary of the Birth of Lima Barreto (Writer)" (1) [Litho] Sc(1735)


Brazil 1981 "50th Anniversary of the Ministry of Labour" (1) [Litho] Sc(1777(


Brazil 1982 "Centenary of Robert Koch's discovery of Tubercle Bacillus" (2,2,2) [Litho] Sc(1790,1791)



[ from 1982 on , Joana Bielschowsky began her work for Mexico Post ]






Thursday, October 8, 2015

Nguyen Sang

[Vietnam] (b 1923/d 1988)


Nguyễn Sáng was a graduate of the 1940-1945 class of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de l'Indochine. His favorite medias were pumice lacquer and oil paint . Although not overtly political, Sáng was reluctant and unenthusiastic about the new communist society in his paintings. He was posthumously awarded the Ho Chi Minh Prize in 1996. 


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Vietnam 1946 "Ho-Chi-Minh" (3,1) [Litho (State Printing Works, Hanoi)] Sc(1L57,...,1L59)




Wednesday, October 7, 2015

Antonio Petruccelli

[USA] (b 1907/d 1994)


 "Born in Fort Lee, New Jersey, Antonio Petruccelli (1907–1994) developed his artistic talent at an early age and began his career as a textile designer. After winning several House Beautiful cover illustration contests, he became a freelance illustrator in 1932; subsequently his work appeared on the covers of Fortune, The New Yorker, Collier’s, Today and House Beautiful magazines. The art director for Fortune, Francis Brennan, said of Petruccelli, “Tony was Mr. Versatility for Fortune. He could do anything, from charts and diagrams to maps, illustrations, covers and caricatures.” Throughout his life, Petruccelli won many important design awards including a U.S. Postage stamp for the American Steel Industry’s 100th anniversary and a Bicentennial medal for the state of New Jersey. "

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USA 1957 "Centenary of the American Steel Industry" (1) [Engr (R.M. Bower)][Recess] Sc(1090)