Francisco Eppens
In 1927, he enrolled in a bachelor's degree program in engineering and architecture at the Escuela Nacional Preparatoria of the National Autonomous University of Mexico.For a few years, Eppens designed advertisements and posters, and starting in 1930 he worked at the Industria Cinematográfica Nacional as an artist.Between 1935 and 1951, he designed a large number of postage and revenue stamps in a modernist or Art Deco style.He also designed the small, but iconic, 1939 postal tax stamp depicting a man attacked by a giant mosquito, issued to raise funds to combat malaria.In the 1960s, he created similar glass mosaic murals for the exteriors of buildings, as well as some large metal sculptures.
Spanish namesurnameMexican postagerevenue stampsnational flagHermosilloSonoraSan Luis PotosíNational Autonomous University of MexicoAcademia de San CarlosrevenueArt DecoManuel Ávila CamachomalariaScott's Monthly Stamp JournalCollectors Club of New YorkDiego RiveraMexican Mural RenaissanceCalla liliesbuttressesPartido Revolucionario InstitucionalMexican coat of armsMuseum of Modern ArtArt Deco stampsFaculty of Arts and DesignRodolfo Aguirre TinocoAbraham ÁngelRamón Alva de la CanalCarlos Alvarado LangLuis Arenal BastarMargarita AzurdiaAlberto BeltránÁngel BrachoCelia CalderónJulio CastellanosJosé Chávez MoradoJosé Clemente OrozcoMinerva CuevasFrancisco DosamantesFrancisco Eppens HelgueraManuel FelguérezGabriel Fernández LedesmaDemián FloresArturo García BustosAlfredo Guati RojoGabriel GuerraMaría IzquierdoJazzamoartIrving KriesbergJorge MarínAdolfo MexiacLuis Ortiz MonasterioRoberto MontenegroNicolás Moreno (artist)Rodolfo NietoLuis NishizawaGabriel OrozcoSandra PaniSergio PerazaMelchor PeredoAntonio PujolAlfredo Ramos MartínezAurora Reyes FloresAntonio M. RuízSebastián (sculptor)Luciano SpanoRufino TamayoShino WatabeAlfredo ZalceÁngel Zárraga