Louis Briat

Louis Briat is an illustrator French, born on June 24th, 1938 with Saint-Etienne. Since 1989, he is also the author of several postage stamps.

Biography

Louis Briat followed studies of fine art, initially of Gravure, before devoting himself to the communication. After its national Diploma of Art schools (DNBA) in 1959, it enters to the 3Ecole Nationale Sup3erieure of the fine arts of Paris.

In the years 1960, it begins its career of graphic designer and carries out covers of works of several publishers. In same time, of 1969 to 2003, Briat at the department of visual communication to the 3Ecole Nationale Sup3erieure of decorative Arts of Paris is professor.

Early, in the middle of the years 1980, it is initiated with the graphic design computer-assisted.

Its first postage stamp for La Poste French is a Timbre of everyday usage, the Marianne of the Bicentenary , in 1989. Although the public of the philatelic Exposition international Philexfrance preferred the project of Claude Jumelet, that of Briat is chosen by the president François Mitterrand at the time of a contest for the news Marianne.

It received in 1998 Cérès of the philately of the most beautiful stamp for the round stamp commemorating the Football world cup 1998, first stamp of France using this geometrical form. On the same topic, it creates the ten stamps devoted to the organizing cities of this cut through gestures of the Football interfered “features of light, rays of lightings, stripes of the lawns and shirts”.

Works

Stamps of France

Marianne of the Bicentenary , stamp of everyday usage, 1989 - 1998. They are also emitted overloaded with Mayotte and Saint-Pierre-and-Miquelon. First emitted stamp drawn by Louis Briat.
“Louis Pasteur 1822-1895”, portrait and two blocks of salt, February 23rd, 1995.
“National Assembly”, May 15th, 1995. On a stamp sinks representing the frontage with columns of the Palais Bourbon, is distinguished between those the table from Eugene Delacroix, Freedom guiding the people .
Football world cup 1998, cities of the test, 10 stamps and a block-layer, 1997-1998.
“World cup - France 98”, first round stamp of France, March 2nd, 1998. Price: Cérès of philately.
“Gois of the island of Noirmoutier - the Vendée”, May 4th, 1998.
“the Mount-Saint-Michel”, June 8th, 1998.
“World cup - France 98”, round stamp with mention “France, world champion”, emitted a few days after the victory of the team of France of Football, July 13rd, 1998.
“the Parliament of Brittany”, March 27th, 2000.
“Valley-with-Reuil - the Eure”, 1 {{er}} October 2001.
“Undertaken”, November 12th, 2002
“Widening of the European Union” of May 1st 2004, May 3rd, 2004.
“Yvoire - Haute-Savoie”, March 27th, 2006.
“TGV Is European”, June 11th, 2007.

Stamps of the southern and antarctic Lands French

“the shipwreck of the Strathmore in the small islands of the Apostles in 1875”, block of a stamp with permanent validity, included in the Notebook of voyage n°4, August 6th, 2005.
“Fiftieth anniversary of the TAAF 1955-2005: first philatelic emission”, Stamp on stamp put on page on a photograph of Penguin S on the ice-barrier, November 2nd, 2005.
“Scattered Islands of the Indian Ocean”, block of five stamps, 1 {{er}} June 2007.
“the race of the Sun to Dumont d' Urville the June 21st”, June 21st, 2007.

See too

Sources

Jean-François Decaux, “Conversation with… Louis Briat”, maintenance published in Stamps magazine n°81, July-August 2007, pages 26-28.

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