Announce
from the Austrian
State Printing Office. Hunderwasser
Stamp Souvenier Sheet by the Austrian State Printing Office was
awarded the first price 1.
8. 2002 The Austrian State Printing Office won the first
price in the category of "Best Multiple Issue" with its Hunderwasser Stamp during
this year’s "Government Stamp Printers Conference" in
Seoul. The meeting that was held for the ninth time this August,
was attended by 17 Security Printing Companies from around the world,
among them the USA, Germany, China, France, Spain, Ukraine and Vietnam.
The jury was composed of international specilists of the printing
business. The stamp was issued on the occasion of the demise
of Professor Friedensreich Hundertwasser in the year 2000. Hunderwasser
initiated the stamp series "modern art" and supported
herewith the philately. For the
production of the stamp a combination of intaglio and photo gravure
printing methods were applied, the gravure was done by Professor
Wolfgang Seidel. The Design is called "Blue Blues" and
exists in four colour variations. The excellent repudation
of the high printing and artistic quality of the Austrian stamp
was herwith once again confirmed. The stamp printing has a very
long tradition at the Austrian State Printing Office, which was
privatised in the year 2000. In 1850 already the first stamps were
produced for the Austrian Post.

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