Piotr Naszarkowski, Date of Birth

    

Piotr Naszarkowski

Polish artist

Date of Birth: 03-May-1952

Profession: postage stamp designer

Nationality: Poland

Zodiac Sign: Taurus


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About Piotr Naszarkowski

  • Piotr Jerzy Naszarkowski is a Polish engraver.
  • He has been living in Sweden since 1989.
  • He has engraved on many supports : book illustrations, banknotes, postage stamps, etc. Born in 1952 in Warsaw, Poland, he graduated in 1980 from the Fine Art school of Warsaw.
  • From 1978 to 1980, he worked as stage designer for the Guliwer puppet theatre.
  • He entered 1980 the Polish television.
  • He quit it next year with another artists to protest the proclamation of the martial law after Solidarnosc union's strike. Naszarkowski found a place at the Polish Banknote Printing House where he was taught the art of engraving on copper and steel.
  • He became well-known when his ex-libris Lucas Cranach was printed in Belgium. His first engraved postage stamp is issued in 1985.
  • His 99th and 100th stamps were issued September 2005 for the Greta Garbo joint issue between Sweden and the United States.

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