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 arti../stamps/jas, 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 ../stamps/jas 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