EGALITE
from KARL SCHWESIG COMMEMORATIVE, Sheet 1
by Jas, 1989
Single gummed, perforated artistamp; 5.4 x 6cm.
From the full sheet (21.7 x 28cm) of 4 different artistamps,
signed, numbered a/p
This artistamp is one of 25 reproducing the artistamp images
created by
the German artist, Karl Schwesig (1898-1955). Schwesig drew his
stamp images in
coloured ink on the left-over perforated bank margins of an actual
postage stamp sheet while
imprisoned in Gurs, a large internment camp in unoccupied Vichy
France.
They are dated 1941.
Reproduction rights to the Schwesig artistamps courtesy of
Galerie Remmert und Barth, Düsseldorf,Germany;
reproduction of the originals from
the Collection of The Leo Beack Institute, New York.
Published as a two sheet set on the occasion of
the INTERNATIONAL INVITATIONAL ARTISTAMP EXHIBITION,
Dec. 7 - 31, 1989 by the Davidson Galleries, Seattle, Washington,
USA
.
Permanent Collection
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Copyright © 1998 Jas W Felter, all rights reserved.