Jessie Kleemann, Frederik ”Kunngi” Kristensen and the cooperative partners Inuk Silis Høegh and Asmund Havsteen-Mikkelsen are the artists who created the three works of art, which make up the sixth part of the series “Contemporary Greenlandic Art”. The three stamps have been issued in a stylish souvenir folder with presentations of the individual artists and their other works. In addition, the artwork of Inuk Silis Høegh and Asmund Havsteen-Mikkelsen have been issued as a souvenir sheet.

Technical Details

Issue Date: 16.01.2012

Designer: Jessie Kleemann, Frederik Kunngi Kristensen, Inuk

Printer: Offset

Process: Offset

Values: 8.50 DKK, 9.50 DKK, 38.50 DKK

Source: WOPA

published January 19th, 2012

The pioneers of modern Icelandic art, painters Þórarinn B. Þorláksson (1867-1924), Ásgrímur Jónsson (1876-1958), Jóhannes Kjarval (1885-1972) and Jón Stefánsson (1881- 1962) were very different artistic personalities. Yet most of their early work can be seen as an extension of the romantic nationalism that characterized Icelandic cultural life. Þorláksson and Jónsson captured the characteristics of the Icelandic light and the stillness of the bright summer nights, Stefánsson came to grips with the barren and monumental aspect of the highlands and Kjarval infused the landscapes that he painted with a rich and turbulent inner life.  (read more)

published October 28th, 2011

The present commemorative is the start of a new attractive series under the title “Photographic art in Austria”; over the course of the coming issue programme, a number of excellent examples of this interesting genre, but one hitherto hardly considered by philately, will be presented. The series begins with the artist Eva Schlegel, born on 8 March 1960 in Hall in Tyrol, whose works have often attracted considerable international attention.

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published September 21st, 2011

Born on 8 December 1929, Arnulf Rainer attended the National Political Educational Institution in Traiskirchen. However, because an art teacher forced him to draw according to nature, he left the school prematurely. In 1947, he saw contemporary art for the first time in an exhibition held by the British Council in Klagenfurt. At his parents; request, he studied at the State Trade School in Villach from 1947, which he completed in 1949. In the same year, he was admitted to the Academy of Applied Art in Vienna, which he left after only one day following an artistic controversy. Shortly afterwards, he applied to the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts, but fled again after only three days, since his works were described as being degenerate.

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published September 19th, 2011

In the special stamp series entitled Arts Magyar Posta present the works of famous Hungarian artists. On one of the stamps in the series in 2011 a detail from József Koszta’s Small girl with geranium (around 1917; Hungarian National Gallery) can be seen and on the other there is the painting by József Rippl-Rónai entitled Female profile, Zorka (1916; Hungarian National Gallery). The first day cover belonging to the series is decorated by a work from each of the artists – József Koszta: Poppies (1910s, József Koszta Museum, Szentes) and József Rippl-Rónai: Final self-portrait (1927; Hungarian National Gallery) – the special cancellation stamp includes their signatures.

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published June 6th, 2011

The stamps painted by Frida Zachariassen are available at FACE VALUE on WOPA, For more information please visit the website:

http://wopa-stamps.com/

Frida Zachariassen – a distinctive painter from Klaksvík

Frida Zachariassen was one of the most distinctive artists in the Faroe Islands during the 1950s. She developed her own personal style, characterised by geometric figures in compositions portraying landscapes, towns, villages and people.

Sometimes the colours in Frida Zachariassen’s paintings are clear and strong, but they also often feature blurred and thin colour tones; in some of the paintings, earth tones dominate.

In the 1930s and 1940s, her painting style focused on content and emotions leaning towards the romantic, with replication of the grandeur of nature, the sublime and the eternal. Around 1950, Frida Zachariassen began painting more abstractly. Landscapes and people were dissolved and reconstructed with squares, stripes and triangles. The main works are constructions made of lines and figures in colours such as saturated green and cool blue and grey, sometimes accompanied by black lines.

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published May 4th, 2011

A new Commemorative issue of stamps featuring “Sailors’ Valentines” became available for purchase on February 14, 2011.

The stamps have been issued in sets of four (4) denominations. Official First Day Covers are also available.

The Sailors’ Valentines represented in this issue were all made of natural colour shells, collected mostly from Barbados beaches and around the world. These intricate works of art except for the $2.75 stamp image which was created by American shell artist Pamela Boynton, and the 10¢ which was made by a Barbadian artist, were all made by Barbadian Daphne Hunte who is well known locally and internationally for her Shell work and Sailors’ Valentines creations.

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published May 2nd, 2011

Bergithe Johannessen – watercolour painter from Vestmanna

Bergithe Christine Johannessen (1905-95) was the first Faroese to be admitted to the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen. Born in Vestmanna, she was the daughter of Madgalene and Niels Skaale Johannessen, merchant and grocer. Bergithe Johannessen was 18 years old when she travelled to London to study painting. She went to the Sidscup School of Art from 1923 until 1925 and specialised in watercolour painting. She then moved to Copenhagen, where she attended the School of Painting at Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts from 1925 until 1931. After completing her studies, she continued living in Copenhagen, where she worked as a porcelain painter at the Royal Danish Porcelain Factory. In 1939, she married semi-skilled worker Arnold Rönnow Torp – Bergithe Johannessen was her artist name.

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published April 20th, 2011

This stamp issue celebrates the 150th anniversary of the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) and features five paintings by Australian artists drawn from the collection of the NGV.

Flowers have long been a favourite subject of artists, and this stamp issue features a selection of floral still life paintings. 

• A bunch of flowers (1930) by Nora Heysen (1911-2003), who was best known for her exquisite still life paintings and portraits. Heysen was born in Hahndorf, South Australia.
• Camellias was painted by the artist, teacher and critic Arnold Shore (1897-1963) in 1937. Shore adapted his postimpressionistic painting style to depict the Australian bush, and also painted still lifes and occasional portraits.

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published March 27th, 2011

A Canadian artist of Aboriginal ancestry, Daphne Odjig was born September 11, 1919, and raised on the Wikwemikong Unceded Indian Reserve on Manitoulin Island (Lake Huron), Ontario. Her father, Dominic Odjig, and her grandfather, Chief Jonas Odjig, were Potawatomi, descended from the great Chief Black Partridge. Her mother, Joyce Peachy, was an English war bride. Her family migrated north and settled in Wikwemikong after the War of 1812. The Potawatomi (Keepers of the Fire) were members, along with the Ojibwa and Odawa, of the Three Fires Confederacy of the Great Lakes.

 Both athletic and musical, Daphne was an avid student at the Jesuit Mission in Wikwemikong. Her favourite subject was art and she would spend time sketching with her father and grandfather, both of whom also had artistic ability. She also helped her mother design needlepoint patterns for linens for the church. Unfortunately, in 1932, when she was in grade seven, her formal education was cut short when she developed rheumatic fever and suffered a long illness.

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published March 22nd, 2011

The USPS has today announced that they will release a set featuring the popular Disney PIXAR characters that we are all familiar with.  The World Stamp News team believes this to be a superb idea and we are certain it will help further promote philately to the younger generations.

Since 1986, Pixar films have stretched the boundaries of our imagination with stories about unlikely heroes who explore the bonds of friendship and family. Now some of those heroes are the subjects of colorful new Send a Hello stamps that encourage people to connect with loved ones through the mail.

The Send a Hello stamps, which go on sale Aug. 19, are a natural outgrowth of the Art of Disney stamp series issued between 2004 and 2008. Originally intended as a series of three annual issuances depicting friendship, (read more)

published December 29th, 2010