Hírközlési Múzeumi Alapítvány, Évkönyv, 2006
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Alexandra Halász: 1956 through philatelic documents Throughout Hungary, 2006 was a year of remembrance. The author writes that generally half a century is sufficient to be able to focus on a historical event from a reliable perspective. Nevertheless, there is still much to research in connection with Hungary’s failed revolution of 1956. The anniversary offered the Stamp Museum the opportunity to commemorate the revolutionary times, through postmarks, stamps, and designs for stamps. Within the framework of a temporary exhibition organized with grant money, the museum displayed a series of stamps as well as designs for stamps that were never issued, along with information on the designers. The author reviewed the exhibit and discussed a guest exhibition that the museum also hosted, with a selection of items from the collections of members of the Hungarian Scientific Society of Philatelists. It included articles from newspapers, actual letters and official postal documents from the time that deserve through study. In addition to the philatelic value of the memorabilia, the documents are precious for their postal history and overall historic value. Dr. György Csáki: Artist and body commissioning him - Sándor Légrády and the Hungarian Post Office In 2006, the Stamp Museum organized a series of presentations on graphic artist and stamp designer Sándor Légrády (1906-1987) to mark the centenary of his birth. The first presentation was offered by the author, who is president of the Hungarian Postal Service, on May 24. He reviewed various Légrády designs and spoke of the relationship between the artists and the Hungarian Post Office, which commissioned the stamps he designed. Csáki emphasized that Légrády played a defining role in Hungarian stamp design, as both the dominant performer of an era and a watershed, shifting from one era of stamp manufacture to another. His success was marked by the large number of stamps he designed as well as the high proportion of his designs in Hungarian philately. During half a century of creative design, almost one in every eight Hungarian stamps issued was a Légrády stamp. If we consider that 59 designers worked on stamps during this period it is immediately obvious that he played a highly dominant role in domestic stamp design and publication. As a designer and graphic artist employed by the State Printing Office, stamp design became his opportunity for self- expression, and after initial successes, it became his dominant form of art. Dr. Erzsébet Novotny: Graphic artist seen in prints The author, as representative of the State Printing Office, gave the second presentation marking the birth centenary of Sándor Légrády, on June 24, and she focused on the years Légrády spent in that office. She told how the oeuvre of Légrády, who designed several hundred stamps, was fully within the State Printing Office. For decades on end, he was a respected member of the creative community at the printing office. He participated in experiments with newly introduced technologies and was one of the first to apply them in practice. The secret of his success as a stamp designer was that he knew how to draw an image for a stamp. He was fully aware of the technique of stamp making and never forgot it. He know that intaglio printing required very thorough knowledge of tones and was able to calculate with the changes that miniaturization would being to an image. His name 226
