Background
Delpech was born in Hanoi on 1 May 1916. His father was an architect.
engraver illustrator painter medallist
Delpech was born in Hanoi on 1 May 1916. His father was an architect.
He studied at the Albert-Sarraut High School Hanoi (formerly Tonkin) (from 1926-1934) where he was a classmate of North Vietnamese general Vo Nguyen Giap and Pham Van Dong. After graduating, Delpech joined the School of Fine Arts in Hanoi, where he studied lacquering and painting.
He designed and engraved ten stamps for the French Post Office between 1980 and 1988. Delpech moved to Paris in 1936 where he became a professor of drawing at the Paris School of Fine Art in 1941. During the Second World War he created forged papers for the resistance.
He designed and engraved ten stamps for the French Post Office between 1980 and 1988.
Delpech was influenced by the country of his childhood and his youth. Based in Paris, he enrolled at the School of Fine Arts.
He subsequently taught drawing, painting and printmaking, among others in a workshop in Paris at the Ecole Polytechnique. He also produced postage stamps, illustrations for books and magazines, theater sets (for Dullin), medals, paintings and even stained glass.
From 1944 to 2004, his work was the subject of numerous exhibitions, individual or collective.
1947: Prix Blumenthal Delpech died in 1988.
