Germany

Event Publicity Poster Stamp

Poster Stamp issued as publicity for the Internationale Ausstellung für Buchgewerbe und Graphik (International Exhibition for the Book Trade and Graphics), commonly known as the BUGRA, an acronym made up of the words BUch and GRAfik.
    According to Wikipedia:

    The exhibition was organized by the Leipzig-based German Book Trade Association from May 6 to October 18, 1914. The initiator of the exhibition was Max Seliger, the director of the Königlichen Akademie für graphische Künste und Buchgewerbe (Royal Academy for Graphic Arts and Book Trade) in Leipzig. The external occasion was the 150th anniversary of the facility he managed. Ludwig Volkmann, chairman of the book trade association, was elected president of the exhibition.

    The exhibition site was located in the area of ​​what later became the Technical Exhibition Center, where the International Construction Exhibition had taken place a year earlier. In addition to the host Germany, guests from a total of 22 countries were represented, five of them with national exhibitions in their own pavilions. From Germany alone, 2,300 companies and individuals took part.

    The focus was not only on the production and distribution of the book, but also on the production of the necessary raw materials and machines and the graphic arts. The exhibition was divided into 16 main and around 60 sub-groups. The palette ranged from papermaking machines and products to type foundry, printing processes, reproduction technology, bookbinding and the book trade to newspapers and communications, libraries and bibliophilia. The company Wolf Netter & Jacobi showed a three-storey free-standing shelving system for archives and libraries, which attracted a lot of attention at home and abroad.

    There were special exhibitions for specific professional and interest groups such as "Women in the book trade and in graphics", "The merchant", "School and book trade", "Germany in pictures" and others. In the Hall of Culture (today Hall 16, Eventpalast) artists were given the opportunity to present their graphic works, book illustrations and posters. The Haynsburg paper mill, in which paper was made by hand from 1700 to 1909, was also on display.

    The best work and products were awarded medals, which were awarded by a specialist jury, in which the typographer Georg Belwe, the publisher Hans von Weber and the graphic artist Walter Tiemann (among others) contributed. Among the companies honored were the printers Oscar Brandstetter and Fischer & Wittig as well as the paper factory Ferdinand Flinsch. Prizewinners among the visual artists included Max Klinger, Edvard Munch, Käthe Kollwitz, Gustav Klimt and Erich Gruner. The painter Carl Otto Czeschka was awarded the Royal Saxon State Prize.

    2.3 million visitors from all walks of life attended the exhibition. However, the main part, two million, came before the beginning of the war, after which the number of visitors fell drastically from August 1914 due to the outbreak of the First World War. The Bugra remained open, but the pavilions of the now hostile states of Russia, England, France, Belgium and Japan were closed. Financially, the exhibition therefore brought a loss of half a million Reichsmarks for the city of Leipzig as the organizer. After its closure on October 18, most of the structures were demolished. A parade ground was created on the site. The remains of the exhibits were taken over by the German Museum of Books and Writing in Leipzig. On December 4, 1943, the museum burned down after Leipzig was bombed during World War II. Many pieces were lost or damaged. Johannes Gutenberg's original wax seal, which was on display at the center at the time, melted in the process; only the packaging, a wooden box, remained intact.
There were many poster stamps issued surrounding the BUGRA, and they have been extensively documented. In modern times, several specialized studies have been published. The website Alphabetilately has an entire section devoted to the BUGRA, at alphabetilately.org/bugra/index.html
There are two printed listings which were used to identify stamps in this and related listings: Tom Minor's serialized listing in the Journal of the Poster Stamp Collectors Club (referred to here as "Minor"); and the listing in "A General Illustrated Catalogue of Exhibition and Event Poster Stamps to 1914" compiled by Stewart Gardiner and Steve Greiczek, publishe by the Cinderella Stamp Club (referred to here as "CSC").

This stamp has a design featuring students sitting in a classroom at their desks, and was probably part of a section of the exhibition connecting the book industry with schools. This one is CSC Type 29 / Minor # 68.

This example is F/VF, OG, H.

Approximate Design Size: 36 x 54 mm.

* STOCK IMAGE


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