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Koloman
Sokol
Towards
the Goal (The Miners) 1902-2003
Date of Issue: October 15,1997
Graphic layout: Martin Cingovsky
Stamp Engraving: Josef Hercik
Printing: Postal Stationery Printing House, Prague
Print Technology: Recess printing from flat plates
Print Run: 400,000
FDC Motif: Koloman Sokol-Paralytic, 1939, etching
FDC Engraving: Josef Hercik
Cancellation Design: Jozef Balaz
FDC Printing: Postal Stationery Printing House, Prague
Print Technology: Recess printing from flat plates
FDC Print Run: 10,000
© 1997 by Ministry of Transport,
Posts and Telecommunications of the Slovak Republic
Painter and graphic artist Koloman
Sokol-born in Liptovsky Mikulas on December 12th, 1902-is one of
Slovakia’s leading 20thcentury exponents of graphic art, a discipline in
which he was also founder of a distinct inter war tradition.
Sokol attended the private schools
of Eugen Kron in Kosice and Gustav Maly in Bratislava and the Academy
of Fine Arts in Prague, where he studied under Max Svabinsky and T.F. Simon. Following a period of study with
Framisek Kupka in Paris he
accepted an invitation from the Mexican Ministry of Culture and Education
to teach graphic art at the school of book art and the National Autonomous
University of Mexico.
Sokol left for the United States
in 1942 and in the years 1946 and 1947 taught at the department of drawing
and painting at the Slovak Technical College and at the Faculty of
Education of Comenius University, both in Bratislava. Since 1949 he has
lived in Bryn Mawr near Philadelphia in the USA.
His works are characterized by
dynamism and expressive use of graphic techniques-notably wood engraving
and etching-and are informed by social criticism and a visionary
imagination.
We have several FDC sets
available at US $12.50
If you are interested in getting one
please send check to:
Vladimir Linder
3804 Yale Street, Burnaby, BC,
V5C 1P6, CANADA
Phone/Fax: 604-291-8065
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