Rudolf Skribelka [ 1st Part / GDR 1956/1958 )

[Germany] (b 1925)

Rudolf Skribelka graduated at the Berlin Fine Arts College in 1955 and started a Free lance Career as Graphic Artist and Stamp Designer...

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Biography : Wikipedia

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East Germany 1956 "500th Anniversary of Greifswald University" (1) [Litho] Sc(310)

East Germany 1956 "110th Anniversary of the Zeiss Factory Jena" (3,3,3) [Litho] Sc(311,...,313) [ images credit of Stampworld ]

East Germany 1956 "Human Rights Day" (3,3,3) [ joint work with Axel Bengs ][Litho] Sc(314,...,316) [ images credit of Stampworld ]

East Germany 1957 "Leipzig Spring Fair" (2,2,2) [ Joint work with Axel Bengs][Litho] Sc(323,324) [ images credit of Wikiwand.com ]



East Germany 1957 "Concentration Camp Memorials Fund" (2,2,2) [Litho] Sc(B31,B32)

East Germany 1957 "Birth Centenary of Clara Zetkin" (1) [Photo] Sc(361)

East Germany 1957 "Leipzig Autumn Fair" (2,1) [Litho] Sc(365,366)

East Germany 1957 "National Memorial Fund : East German War Victims" (3,3,3) [ joint work with Axel Bengs ][Photo] Sc(B33,...,B35) [ with SS ] [ images credit of Stampworld ]

East Germany 1958 "Centenary of birth of Planck" (2,2,2) [Litho] Sc(383,384) [ images credit of Stampworld ]

East Germany 1958 "Centenary of Darwin's Theory of Evolution and Bicentenary of Linnaeus's Plant Classification System" (2,2,2) [Litho] Sc(388,389)  [ images credit of Stampworld ]

East Germany 1958 "Resistance fighters" (5,5,5) [ joint work with Axel Bengs][Photo] Sc(B36,...,B40)  [ images credit of Stampworld ]

Henry Cayon

[France] (b 1879/ d ?)

The first part of the life of Henry Cayon , his student days and the Schools he attended, are somehow forgotten in the Net....after 2 or 3 hours digging,  I only have data about him from 1911 on.. in that year he received some monetary help to travel...Cayon began by traveling through Mauritania, Senegal , Niger and Sudan...during some years , he traveled  also from Canada to Mexico, The French Antilles , Morocco ,etc ... in 1924 he returned to Senegal where he was nominated special correspondent of the Illustrated Magazine "Annales Coloniales" , to cover a French Parliamentarian Visit... during all these years he always continued to paint , receiving at the same time new and different influences... He is part of the group of  Painters known as Africanists ("Les Peintres Africanistes" )...

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Biographical Data : A Great Book "Les Africanistes : Peintres Voyageurs" : Google Books

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Photo : ebay.com

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Madagascar and Dependencies 1930 "Various Designs" (23,4,4) [ Engr (C. Hourriez)(Abel Mignon)([Typo] Sc(147,...,168)

Madagascar and Dependencies 1931/1936 "General Simon Gallieni (1st and 2nd series)" (16[ 1st series (5) 2nd series (11)]) [Engr (Abel Mignon)][Recess] Sc(173,...,177)(180,...,190) [ The 1st and 2nd series share the same design, but differ in the size...]

Antoon Molkenboer

[Netherlands] (b 1872/d 1960)

 "Molkenboer was a Portrait painter ,draftsman, printmaker, stained-glass wall painter, mozaïst, designer of costumes for masquerades, posters, book illustrations, bookplates, stamps and craft products (..) The ideas of his uncle Antoon Derkinderen had a significant influence on the development of  Molkenboer as an artist..(..) After successfully passed the training school and the National Academy of Fine Arts with Professor August Allebé as his tutor,  Antoon continued his studies at the Sorbonne in Paris and at The New York Student Art League. (..) After 1895 he became a political cartoonist and from 1900 to 1904 he designed for the Wagner Society all the costumes and sets for the performances at the City Theatre in Amsterdam .(..) Antoon was invited to work in the United States, to where he moved in 1906..In the New World, he led assignments for murals in Hollywood and the Majestic Theatre in Los Angeles, the Chamber of Commerce in Seattle, etc. (..) In the 20's ,the Dutch PTT invited Molkenboer to give shape to some postage stamps. (..) and he was also focused,since 1925, on mosaic art..(..) Molkenboer performed a large number of works, starting with his real first and also the largest dimensions mosaic, for H.Antonius Abbot Church in Scheveningen. (..) In 1925 he was commissioned for three stained-glass windows in the St.Fernandkerk to Arcachon in the south of France (..) In 1950 he made ​​his last monumental wall decorations (..) when he had already 78 years so he was helped in the implementation of this project by other Artists.."

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Biography : Wikipedia
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Detailed biography and photo : ilibrariana.wordpress.com
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Netherlands 1925 "Child Welfare" (3,3,3) [Photo] Sc(B9,...,B11)

Netherlands 1926 "Child Welfare" (4,4,4) [Photo] Sc(B12,...,B15)

Netherlands 1927 "Child Welfare" (4,4,4) [Photo] Sc(B21,...,B24)

Sir Robert Pearce Edgcombe

[Great Britain] (b 1851/d 1929)

Sir Robert Edgcombe was educated at the  King's College in Cambridge...there was no known special Art Education, because he spent his life working as a Lawyer ... he was also a Banking Company Chairman, and was even Mayor of Dorchester in 1891... but there are several indication in the Net,that give him Artistic skills, certainly part of his more private life...he was made Knight  in 1895, year when he also assumed the name Edgcumbe,  to mark his descent from Edgcumbe of Lamerton...

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Biography : University of Toronto Libraries

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More data :  Antique Prints.co.uk

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Photo : National Portrait Gallery.org.uk

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Nyassa Company 1901 "King Carlos I with Giraffes and Camels" (13,2,2) [Engr (H. Bourne)][Recess (Waterlow and Sons Limited, London)] Sc(26,...,38)

[ Some of these stamps were Overprinted and surcharged several times..]

Nyassa Company 1911 "King D. Manuel II : Giraffes, Zebras, Camels and São Gabriel (Vasco da Gama's Flagship)" (12,4,4) [Recess (Waterlow and Sons Limited, London) Sc(51,...,62) [ this series present us original designs , but Overprinted stamps with "Republica" ,because Portugal's Monarchy was overthrown in 1910... stamps without this Overprint were never issued...][ images credit of Stampworld ]