af Vagn Juhl-Larsen | okt 16, 2023 | Stamp of the day
NUDE ART ON STAMPS: Édouard Manet Édouard Manet (1832-1883) was a French painter who played a pivotal role in the transition from Realism to Impressionism. His nude paintings, such as “Olympia” and “Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe,” are iconic...
af Vagn Juhl-Larsen | okt 14, 2023 | Stamp of the day
NUDE ART ON STAMPS: Aristide Maillol Aristide Maillol (1861-1944) was a French sculptor, painter, and printmaker whose monumental statues of female nudes display a concern for mass and rigorous formal analysis. Today’s stamp from France is issued to celebrate...
af Vagn Juhl-Larsen | okt 13, 2023 | Stamp of the day, Uncategorized
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828) was a Spanish painter. Goya was a portrait painter and court painter to the Spanish court, a historian and, in his unofficial work, a revolutionary and a man of vision. He has been considered both the last of the old...
af Vagn Juhl-Larsen | okt 12, 2023 | Stamp of the day
Nikola Martinoski (1903-1973), sometimes spelled Martinovski, was a Macedonian Yugoslav painter of Aromanian ethnicity. He is considered a founder of modern Macedonian art. Todays stamp from former Yougoslavia shows Martinoskis beautiful painting: “Young Gipsy with a...
af Vagn Juhl-Larsen | okt 11, 2023 | Stamp of the day
Just after the second world war a series of seven stamps depicting the famous “Berlin Bear” was issued in the allied zone: Berlin and Brandenburg. They were issued with both normal perforation (14) and zigzag rouletting (13½). In this type of separation the cuts/holes...
