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The publication of a postal stamp is often a homage paid by a nation to a place, an event, a remarkable cause or a character which count. The painters and other artists do not escape from this rule. Some are however "forgotten" of postal art. Here, gathered below (French or foreign), emitted stamps (206) or simple studies of stamp (224) in homage to the artists represented on our website. The first French stamp was emitted in 1849, England preceded us by ten years. There is often a share of voyage in this small form of shape paper. The stamp circulates, sails, flies away, it makes dream, then dream a little. M.C.
When the stamp is really emitted, the artist name is preceded of an asterisk (*).
It is certain that we do not know each stamp emitted for such or such artist; do not hesitate with us to make known them!
Discover all the stampsA tribute to Lars Bo
L'artiste danois Lars Bo s’installe à Paris en 1947 et commence à graver en 1948. Né en 1924, Lars Bo nous a quitté à Paris, le 21 octobre 1999 ; il avait 75 ans. Il repose dans la 87eme division (le columbarium) case 18581 du cimetière du Père Lachaise à Paris. En son hommage, cette fleur délicate des régions boréales.
"Après un voyage de plus de trente heures qui me mena du Danemark à Paris, je me présentais Impasse du Rouet dans le quatorzième où je découvris une vraie colonie d'artiste. C'est ainsi que je rencontrai Friedlaender pour la première fois." - Lars Bo
"A Paris, nous les artistes menions la vie des « Montparnos » d'après-guerre, tous sans le sou." - Lars Bo
"Lorsque Johnny Friedlaender et Albert Flocon créèrent leur école de gravures dans l'atelier de l'imprimeur Leblanc rue Saint Jacques, je fus leur premier massier." - Lars Bo
"Les gravures Lars Bo sont rarement sans ambiguïté et faciles à interpréter, certainement jamais ouvertement politique ou existentielle. La nature chez Lars Bo n'est jamais véritablement romantique ou paradisiaque, mais effrayante, grotesque et bizarre. Lars Bo fait appel à notre l'imagination." - S. A. Sahl
"Ses motifs fantastiques d’inspiration surréaliste ornèrent de nombreux ouvrages, en particulier ceux de son compatriote, le conteur Andersen, pour lequel son art correspondait totalement." - Anonyme
"Où est ta blessure pour être devenu un artiste?" - Lars Bo
Notes of biography
Engraver and author, Lars Bo was born in 1924 in Kolding (Jutland, Denmark). His father, a talented architect, is a fine watercolorist. Student mediocre, Bo is noticed for his desire to draw! The young man studies at the Academy of Applied Arts in Copenhagen and publishes his first drawings in Danish newspapers and reviews. Lars Bo follows the course of the painter P. Rostrup Boyesen at Statens Museum for Kunst (1939-1940), then continues his studies at the Danish School of Design between 1941 and 1943; he travels and discovers Europe.
After joining the Danish Resistance movement and spending the end of the war in Odense (island of Fyn, Denmark), Lars Bo settles in Paris in 1947. He begins engraving in 1948, learning the rudiments of this art with Johnny Friedlaender and Albert Flake (Atelier de l'Ermitage, period 1948-50); Jacques Villon encourages him to follow this path.
Lars Bo writes and publishes his first novel, "Det vidunderlige hus i Paris" (The wonderful house in Paris). In the early 50s, to deepen the techniques of engraving, Lars Bo attends the Atelier 17 led by Stanley William Hayter.
The artist begins to illustrate his first book in 1952, the intervention on this artistic field leads him to international recognition. Lars Bo illustrated numerous books (until 1996): accompanying Voltaire, Strindberg, Kafka, Robert Giraud, Francis Garnung, Gogol or Gerard de Nerval. His works depicting his compatriot Hans Christian Andersen are considered greatest works in this field ("Around the Snow Queen" in 1968, "Swan Lake" in 1969).
If the very first personal exhibitions of Lars Bo are held in Stockholm and Copenhagen in 1949, his first Paris exhibition is organized in 1954. He works temporarily as the leading artist for the French newspaper “Le Monde”.
One sleepless night and a very long conversation with his wife rushes his destiny: as from 1959, the artist devotes himself exclusively to his graphic work (engraving, illustrated book). He becomes known for his graphic work with surrealistically inspired fantastic motifs.
Bo is long time “habitué” of the Salons of Autumn, Le Trait, the French Painters and Engravers, Pointe & Burin and Gronningen Society.
The artist creates the sets, costumes and curtain for the National Theater of Copenhagen for "Swan Lake" in 1969 (choreography by Flemming Flindt).
Over the years, Lars Bo has exhibited around the world (France, England, United States, Japan, etc.) and his work - over 400 prints - is present in the major collections of international museums.
Lars Bo died in 1999.
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Some were created in lithographic technic, most are simple offset reproductions. They are many those who like collecting these rectangles of paper, monochrome or in games of colours, in matt paper or brilliant, with many words or almost dumb.
We are happy also to be able to greet, by this pages, mythical galleries as those of Denise René, Louis Carré, Claude Bernard, Berheim Jeune, Maeght, Pierre Loeb and others.
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* Catalogue raisonné des estampes (en ligne) : www.larsbo.eu All the complete worksBibliographic track and more
To read about the artist :
- « Portrait d’un artiste : Lars Bo », A. Jouffroy, in Arts, Paris, juillet 1958
- « Lars Bo », Robert Giraud et autres, Ed. Selskabet Bogvennerne, Cop., 1966
- « Lars Bo rétrospective », Morten Krohg, cat. d'exposition, Oslo, 1968
- « Lars Bo et l'imagination créatrice », Jean Bouret, Ed. Penela, 1969
- « Lars Bo », Charles Perusseaux, Ed. Pierre Cailler, Genéve, 1971
- « La gravure française au XX° siècle », R. Passeron, Biblio. des Arts, 1971
- « Lars Bo - Gravures, monotypes, aquarelles », J. Rollin, Ed. Musée de St Denis, 1977-78
- « De Daumier à Lars Bo », P. Chabert, Ed. Musée d'art moderne, Troyes, 1984
- « L'oiseau de lune », L. Bo, Ed. Presses universitaires de Caen, 1993
- « Taille-douce : Un cote d'imprimeur », L. Bo, Ed. Manière noire, 1998
To read from the artist :
- « Lars Bo », Suzanne Perusset, interview, Radio-Lausanne, 1970
- « En underlig dreng » (audio en danois), Ed. Lindhardt og Ringhof, 2017
Website :
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Stamp by Lars Bo
The publication of a postal stamp is often a homage paid by a nation to a place, an event, a remarkable cause or a character which count. The painters and other artists do not escape from this rule. Some are however "forgotten" of postal art. Here, gathered below (French or foreign), emitted stamps (206) or simple studies of stamp (224) in homage to the artists represented on our website. The first French stamp was emitted in 1849, England preceded us by ten years. There is often a share of voyage in this small form of shape paper. The stamp circulates, sails, flies away, it makes dream, then dream a little. M.C.
When the stamp is really emitted, the artist name is preceded of an asterisk (*).
It is certain that we do not know each stamp emitted for such or such artist; do not hesitate with us to make known them!
Discover all the stampsA tribute to Lars Bo
L'artiste danois Lars Bo s’installe à Paris en 1947 et commence à graver en 1948. Né en 1924, Lars Bo nous a quitté à Paris, le 21 octobre 1999 ; il avait 75 ans. Il repose dans la 87eme division (le columbarium) case 18581 du cimetière du Père Lachaise à Paris. En son hommage, cette fleur délicate des régions boréales.
"Après un voyage de plus de trente heures qui me mena du Danemark à Paris, je me présentais Impasse du Rouet dans le quatorzième où je découvris une vraie colonie d'artiste. C'est ainsi que je rencontrai Friedlaender pour la première fois." - Lars Bo
"A Paris, nous les artistes menions la vie des « Montparnos » d'après-guerre, tous sans le sou." - Lars Bo
"Lorsque Johnny Friedlaender et Albert Flocon créèrent leur école de gravures dans l'atelier de l'imprimeur Leblanc rue Saint Jacques, je fus leur premier massier." - Lars Bo
"Les gravures Lars Bo sont rarement sans ambiguïté et faciles à interpréter, certainement jamais ouvertement politique ou existentielle. La nature chez Lars Bo n'est jamais véritablement romantique ou paradisiaque, mais effrayante, grotesque et bizarre. Lars Bo fait appel à notre l'imagination." - S. A. Sahl
"Ses motifs fantastiques d’inspiration surréaliste ornèrent de nombreux ouvrages, en particulier ceux de son compatriote, le conteur Andersen, pour lequel son art correspondait totalement." - Anonyme
"Où est ta blessure pour être devenu un artiste?" - Lars Bo
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