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Gerd Aretz (18 February 1930 – 5 July 2009) was a German artist. From 1960 until his death he designed
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for the
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including the Women in German history series portraits. Born in
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,
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, he used to teach art in the local university. In 1982, the "presidential souvenir sheet" designed by Aretz appeared, featuring the German presidents Theodor Heuss, Heinrich Lübke, Gustav Heinemann, Walter Scheel and Karl Carstens. Their successors Richard von Weizsäcker, Roman Herzog and Johannes Rau had refused to appear on stamps during their lifetimes. After Rau's death, the Federal Ministry of Finance issued an urgent order to submit a design for a commemorative stamp within 72 hours; together with his son, Aretz succeeded in fulfilling this order on time. In the same year, he also designed the stamp for Stamp Day. Among other things, it shows a letter holder with letters addressed to him, franked with stamps designed by him. His son, Oliver Aretz, is a designer in
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and has worked with him on some stamps.


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1930 births 2009 deaths Artists from Wuppertal Artists from the Rhine Province German stamp designers {{Germany-artist-stub