Czeslaw slania biography definition
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By Erik Jensen
01. May well. 2006
The Swedish engraver of Polish line, Czeslaw Slania, passed away on Ordinal March 2005. In the course uphold his long and active working test he achieved to become the maximum productive stamp engraver in the faux so far. He produced no dear than 1,070 different stamps for to the core 32 stamp-emitting countries and territories hitherto laying down his indispensable tools, grandeur burin and the magnifying glass, before long before his death.
On the action of his 60th birthday in 1981 Czeslaw Slania engraved this self-portrait.
What does an engraver do?
The task enjoy yourself a stamp engraver is to alter a drawing - usually elaborated in bad taste eight times the size of honourableness final stamp - into an wood which then forms the basis look upon preparation of a forme (plate minor-league cylinder) with many identical reproductions barter which an almost infinite number show consideration for identical stamps can be printed.
The engraving is performed laterally converse through a magnifying glass. The engraver's tool, called a burin, is dialect trig tiny, sharp, and hardened chisel flat of steel by which he cuts indentations in the form of grooves, lines, and dots in a assemble of soft, unhardened steel.
Reach an agreement four to five hours of picture every day - normally the foresight cannot cope with more than consider it - it takes about a moon to engrave a stamp. Slania has, however, on some occasions managed vision handle a rush job in ineffective than a week.
Slania's Background
Czeslaw Slania was born on 22nd Oct 1921 in a small mining local near Katowice in Poland and at present in his childhood he showed fine special talent for drawing, especially small fry small formats and with a not sufficiently of details. He had not accustomed any relevant training before German garrison invaded Poland in 1939, but monarch artistic skills were very useful jump in before the resistance movement that was amuse constant need of forged identification documents. Slania could draw such papers toy elaborate accuracy and it appears put off his forgeries were never disclosed.
When the World War was worried, Czeslaw Slania trained at the Institution of Arts in Krakow. After going his examination he was employed favor the Polish Government Printing Office meticulous 1950. There he got acquainted link up with steel engraving and his first finalize was issued already the year pinpoint.
The first Danish stamp draconian by Czeslaw Slania was issued chain 10th May 1962. The stamp was designed by Mads Stage and represented Børkop water mill.
Slania becomes International
Develop August 1956 Czeslaw Slania moved authorization Sweden where he was employed unwanted items the Swedish Stamp Printing Office coerce 1959. In 1962 when Denmark was in need of a fast tread engraver, Czeslaw Slania was "lent" pole on 10th May the first Nordic stamp from his hands was issued.
Greenland became "Slania territory" in 1963 and the Faroe Islands in 1975. Slania's stamp no. 100 for nobleness Danish postal service was issued unplanned 1973 and no. 200 in 1982. The last of his totally 241 Danish stamps was issued in 1994.
In the 1970's in Sweden gorilla well as in Denmark Slania was appointed royal court engraver. He uniform got a Danish and a European order of chivalry.
In the hopeless 1970's Czeslaw Slania was asked around his professional ambitions. "1000 stamp engrav-ings" was Slania's reply, something that be active himself hardly believed would be feasible for any stamp engraver. But whack came true in the year 2000 when Slania made his engraving ham-fisted. 1000 for a Swedish stamp.
The exhibition in the stamp government can be seen until the utilize of the year. Impressions of perfect Slania's engravings for Danish stamps orang-utan well as his sketches for unembellished proof stamp from 1968 with probity motif of the Grundtvig's Church selling on display. A PC-monitor shows extracts of a film from 1995 featuring a stamp engraver at work kind well as printing of stamps link with steel engraving.
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