Stamp Issue 3 June 2013 (5MB) - Philatelie Liechtenstein

Painters from Liechtenstein – Hans Kliemand (1922 – 1976)Art.-Nr. 213.05.33The “Painters from Liechtenstein” issue,which portrays two works by the illustrator,engraver, painter and graphic designerHans Kliemand who died in 1976, is intendedto revive a popular earlier series ofstamps. Hans Kliemand was born on 22 ndJuly 1922 in the artists’ colony of Hellerauin Dresden (Germany). After attendingthe Richter School of Art, from whichhe graduated as a scientific illustrator, in1940 he embarked on a course of studyat the State University of Art and Academyof Fine Arts in Dresden. In 1941 howeverhe was called up for military serviceand had to go to war aged 18 as a medicalorderly. After the end of the war hetravelled to Liechtenstein for the first timeto visit his brother Alfons, who had lived inVaduz since the beginning of the 1930s asa stamp dealer. With Alfons’s help he resumedhis studies at the Nürnberg Schoolof Arts and Crafts, successfully completingthem in 1950. For some years he livedin Weissenburg (Bavaria), maintaining hisown printing studio there. During his manyvisits to Vaduz in this period he produceddrawings (including some for the yearbookof the Principality of Liechtenstein HistoricalAssociation), portraits and stamp designs,together with his first small-formatetchings on fauna and flora and also localviews which have enjoyed great popularityin Liechtenstein principally as Christmascards. In 1961 he made Liechtensteinhis permanent home. Nine years later hebecame a member of the first Associationof Graphic Artists in Liechtenstein andtook part in exhibitions in the country. On3 rd March 1976 Hans Kliemand died in theSt. Gallen Hospital, to which he had beentaken after a serious cycling accident.The two stamps show the pen-and-inkdrawings “View of Vaduz” (face value CHF1.00) and “View into the Rhine Valley”(face value CHF 1.90). The stamps,designed by Heinz Schädler, have beenkept deliberately uncomplicated, the backgroundcolour having been chosen to accordwith the original paper. The stampshave been printed by a combination of offsetand steel engraving and are being issuedin two 10-stamp sheetlets. Bothdrawings are from the deceased’s estate(the Evi Kliemand collection).FDCArt.-Nr. 213.05.52