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.

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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