Stamp Art

Thursday, October 22, 2015

Margot Bitzer

[Germany] (1936)

From 1955 to1958, Margot Bitzer trained as an engraver in the Leipzig Securities Printing plant ... at the same time she attended courses at the Evening Academy of the Visual Arts University...Until 1983 , she worked as engraver in the Securities & Certificate Printing..from 1960 until 1964 the stamps she engraved bore her maiden name Sachs and from 1967 until 1972 she used her married name Bitzer. Since 1984 Margot embraced a Freelance career and since 1991 she is a member of the BDG (Federation of German Graphic Designers).

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Biography : Galerie Schmidt-Rottluff

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East Germany 1962 "Concentration Camps Memorial Fund / Resistance (1st series)" (5,5,1) [Engr (Margot Sachs)][Recess] Sc(B85,B88) [ images credit of Stampworld ]

East Germany 1962 "Concentration Camps Memorial Fund / Resistance (2nd series)" (5,5,1) [Engr (Margot Sachs)][Recess] Sc(B96) [ images credit of Stampworld ]

East Germany 1963 "Concentration Camps Memorial Fund / Sportsmen Victims (1st series)" (5,5,1) [Engr (O. Volkamer)][Recess][Photo] Sc(B102) [ images credit of Stampworld ]

East Germany 1963 "Concentration Camps Memorial Fund / Sportsmen Victims (2nd series)" (5,5,1) [Engr (O. Volkamer)] [Recess][Photo] Sc(B107) [ images credit of Stampworld ]

East Germany 1967 "Birth Anniversaries" (5,5,5) [Recess] Sc(936,...,940) [ images credit of Stampworld ]

[ I only have data from the work of Margot Bitzer until 1968...so,this post will remain with the status of "INCOMPLETE" ; future updates are coming soon..!]

Wednesday, October 21, 2015

Bertil Bull Hedlund

[Sweden] (b 1893/d 1950)

From 1911 to 1918 Bertil 'Bull' Hedlund studied at the Technical School and at the Fine Arts Academy... (..) he then continued his studies in Copenhagen , Paris , Dresden and Berlin...(..) from 1914 to 1922 he learned how to master the 'Dry Point Engraving' Technic with preferably intimate atmosphere images.. (..) from 1933 on he used a mix of this Technic and Etching ..He signed with fondness designs from the cafe, variety shows, circus life, social satires, symbolic subjects , historical depictions and his gastronomic interests were well represented. He also designed covers, book illustrations and bookplates.. his work is actually exhibited in several Nordic Museums..

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Biography

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Detailed Biography and Photo

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Sweden 1945 "Tercentenary of Swedish Press" (3,1) [Engr (Sven Ewert)][Recess] Sc(360,...,362)

Olga Fedorovna Amosova-Bunak

[Russia] (b 1892/d 1970)

In 1903–1905 Olga studied at Y. S. Goldblat’s school of painting and drawing in St. Petersburg.. She began to paint independently since 1905 but due to health problems she lived in Yalta,Krimea from 1907 to 1911.. the next 3 years were passed in Rome studying in the English Academy of Arts...after returning to Russia she continued to exhibit her work done in Italy and in one of those exhibitions in Tsarskoye Selo, 260 of her oils ,watercolors and drawings were destroyed in a Yudenich ( leader of the anti-communist White movement in Northwestern Russia during the Civil War) Army against the city..In 1915 she worked as an illustrator for several magazines and started her important contribution as scene-designer for theater and drama events.. in 1919 she went to Moscow to design stage scenes for cinema and Operetta's.. until 1923 she created also posters ,postcards, and soviet statesmen portraits...in 1926 Olga Amosova was part of an expedition to Tannu-Tuva Republic and North Mongolia headed by anthropologist and ethnographer V. V. Bunak,her future husband..from 1927 to 1931 she created also designs for postage stamps and letterheads of state loans.. then she began to learn the Art of Engraving and in 1936/1937 worked at the Moscow Institute of advanced studies for graphic artists . From 1930 to 1950 she continued to pursue her versatile work and started to engage also Literary Activities...

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Biography and Photo : Gallery Elysium

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Russia 1927 "1st International Air Mail Congress, The Hague" (2,1) [Typo] Sc(C10,C11)

Tuva 1927 "Local Motifs / Heritage Series" (14,14,14) [Litho] Sc(15,...,28) [ images credit of katalog.stampsportal.ru ]

[ the stamps are presented without perforations, just to have better images... the series, in fact, has 3 different perforations : 12.5 (1k,...,5k), 12.5x12 (8k,...,14k), 10 or 10.5 (18k,...,1R) ; some stamps from this series were overprinted and/or Surcharged several times]

Russia 1929/1931 "Standard Series" (16,16,2) [Typo] Sc(415,422)