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 blank 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
FIVE/CINQ Archives
Copyright © 1998 Jas W Felter, all rights
reserved.