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An exceptional Roumanian designer/engraver.
DEATH OF AN ARTIST 1972 saw the passing away of Prof. Hubert Woyty-Wimmer. Collectors of Austrian post-war stamps will be familiar with his name - he designed a number of stamps for the Second Republic, and engraved many more. http://cjoint.com/data/dCprKQRSiN.htm In the middle fifties he moved to London, and began to work for Thomas De La Rue, for whom he designed many banknotes and other securities, and in whose employ he also designed and engraved a number of postage stamps. Best known is his work on the early United Nations issues he created the "Freedome Flame" emblem later used on many other stamps, and among his lesser-known works are the dies for the 1956 Commodore Berry issue of Ireland. He died on August 1, 1972, and is buried in Graz. Hubert Woyty's family came from the Bukovina, now part of Roumania, but at the time of his birth forming a section of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. His father had been in the Imperial Army, and the family had been, as he told me "raised amongst horses". With the dissolution of the Empire, he moved to Austria, and had been educated at the famous monastery of Melk on the Danube. Before the war he engraved numerous superb bookplates and other small graphic work for private patrons, but after service in the Army (he came back to a devastated Vienna in 1945) he joined the staff of the Austrian State Printing Office, winning the competition held to determine the best available engravers in Austria, with a fine rendering of the Madonna, later used in the St. Stephens' Cathedral set of Austria, 1947. His active philatelic engraving career spanned the years 1945 to 1965, when he returned to Vienna. Bitter family disputes about house property in Vienna, and chronic ill-health of long standing which ultimately proved fatal, troubled the end of his life. He was, and will remain, one of the very finest engravers of securities. Details of his pre-war career can be found in Thieme-Becker's "Lexicon der Bildenden Kuenstler" in all major public libraries. Acknowledgement: Mr. Edgar Lewy. 1972 |
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