Mi.748-749 (25.07.1940) Eupen, Malmedy & Moresnet
Official postcard of the Reichskolonialbund, Berlin, depicting the shore-line at Dar es Salaam. Featuring postage stamp Mi.749 (12 Pf - Eupen) tied with special cancellation JB:Aussig2/52. Ref: 06.10.1940
Mi.748 - 749
Reintegration of Eupen, Malmedy and Moresnet.
Notes:Â Engraving: Ernst Vogenauer. Photogravure printing. Sheets 5 x 10. Swastika watermark. Perf. 14. Quantity issued: unknown. Valid until 31.12.1941. Inscription on these stamps reads, 'Eupen-Malmedy again German'.
Ernst Vogenauer
Ernst Rudolf Vogenauer (1897 - 1972) was a German graphic artist. After World War I, he worked as a poster designer and a book illustrator. He also designed banknotes, postage stamps, wooden toys, and ceramics.
Ernst Vogenauer studied in Munich during his early childhood and was a bright student of Fritz Helmut Ehmcke (1878–1965). At the same time, he worked for the Consee's art printing office in Munich. In 1921, he left Munich for a job at the National Printing Office in Berlin where he worked until World War II. He married his wife, Minna, in 1925, who a few years later had their first and only son. It was also at that time in the 1920s that he illustrated an edition of the Bavarian novel Der Wittiber (The Widower) by the German writer Ludwig Thoma (1867–1921). He was gifted in various artistic crafts.
In spite of his respect for the Old Masters, he had an open mind about art and was attracted by futurism, cubism, and expressionism with regard to his official work for the National Printing Office of Berlin, and to avoid trouble, he often preferred to mark some of his private artistic works with the special signature 'Saturn'. His artistic friends were mainly Binder, Peter Kraemer (1896–1972), son of an American Bavarian painter also named Peter Kraemer and Carl Johann Rabus (1898–1983), a German expressionist painter. Carl Rabus made a self-portrait with Vogenauer (circa 1927 to 1937) titled: 'Zwei Freunde, Selbst mit Ernst Vogenauer' ('Two friends, Ernst Vogenauer and I'). Today this oil painting is in the private collection of Gerhard Schneider. After World War II, Vogenauer became an art teacher in the High Art School of Berlin-Weissensee, in East Germany.
Ernst Rudolf Vogenauer was involved with German expressionism and participated in different international events such as the "First exhibition of modern art" in Bucharest. From 1946 to 1962 he worked as docent at the Berlin-Weissensee Art School (Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weissensee).
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