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Four Generations … 19 Stamps

By Erik Jensen

Denmark is perhaps the only country in the world which is able to boast that four generations of the same family – the Klint’s – have been designing stamps: 19 different stamps in 77 years.


The architect and painter Peder Vilhelm Jensen-Klint (1850-1933) was the first with a silhouette picture of King Christian the 9th to be used in the Danish West Indies from April 1905. He also designed the stamp with a ship in the port of St. Thomas. His son, the architect Kaare Jensen Klint (1888-1954) drew two of the stamps for a series on the occasion of the King Christian the 10th silver jubilee as a regent in 1937.

Designed Twelve Stamps

Kaare Klint’s son, Naur Klint (1920-1978), became the originator of 12 Danish stamps. In 1975, a series of four stamps was issued with motifs of endangered species and one for the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals followed by stamps featuring endangered flora and mushrooms. Naur Klint’s 12th and last stamp was issued in 1970 in commemoration of the 500th anniversary of the University of Copenhagen. It was finished by his son, Lars Klint (born in 1947). Later he composed a stamp in connection with the world figure skating championships in Denmark in 1982. His so far last contribution to the miniature art is the two Europa stamps from 1983 with motifs of the Kildeskov sports hall Gentofte and the bridge of Sallingsund.


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