Martin Mörck (born 8 June 1955) is a
Norwegian artist and
engraver of
postage stamps and
banknotes.
Mörck was born in
Gothenburg
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,
Sweden
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into a family of artists; a mother being a
textile artist and a father being a
graphic designer
A graphic designer is a professional within the graphic design and graphic arts industry who assembles together images, typography, or motion graphics to create a piece of design. A graphic designer creates the graphics primarily for published, ...
. He began a study of shipbuilding, a study he did not complete. In 1975, after a study in art, he became apprentice as an engraver under the supervision of
Arne Wallhorn at the Swedish postal service. Mörck first postage stamp engraving is of a
tawny owl and was issued as a Swedish postage stamp. Since then, Mörck has had more than 600
engravings issued as postage stamps,
primarily engraved for the postal services of the
Nordic countries
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, but also for the postal services of
France,
Monaco,
Canada,
Greenland,
Latvia
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and others.
References
External links
Official website
1955 births
Living people
People from Gothenburg
Stamp designers
Philately of Sweden
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