RO - 5139

Valeev Natalia 15.11.1969 -
romunska športnica - lokostrelka, večkratna prvakinja in rekorderka Moldavije.

Sportswoman from Republica Moldova, master of sport in archery. Multiple Champion and recordman of the Republic of Moldova. She won bronze medal in individual and team archery at 1992 OG.

  
                   MD - 36

Valois Ninette de 6.6.1898 - 8.3.2001
je britanska baletna koreografinja.

Through a combination of vision and singlemindedness, Ninette de Valois, created Britain's national ballet. The company she founded in 1931 at Sadler's Wells Theatre is now the Royal Ballet. A student of Enrico Cecchetti, de Valois was a member of the Ballets Russes de Serge Diaghilev from 1923 to 1926. She then joined the London Old Vic Theatre to teach movement to its actors and to arrange dances for plays and operas at that theater. As a choreographer she created Job (1931), The Rake's Progress (1935), and Checkmate (1937). She resigned as director of the Royal Ballet in 1963 but maintained ties to the company and school. Her books include Invitation to the Ballet (1937) and Step by Step (1977). She was created a Dame of the British Empire in 1951.

  
          IE - 1232

Valtonen Vera 4.12.1914 - 17.12.1997,
                        Marie 17.6.1916 - 14.1.1995,
                        Raija 27.3.1918 - 23.2.1997
Pevski trio Harmony Sisters je najbolj popularna finska pevska skupina vseh časov. Sestavljale so ga sestre: Vera - mozosopran, Marie - alt, Raija - sopran.

The trio Harmony Sisters (1934-56) was the most beloved Finnish singing group of all time. They personified the spirit of the struggle of WWII. The group toured Nazi Germany as Geschwister Waltonen in 1942-43, sent there officially by the National Finnish Broadcasting Company. They made recordings in Berlin, but those were mostly destroyed in bombings. They visited military hospitals and were entertained by Nazi leaders.
Vera song mezzosopran, Marie alt and Raija soprano.

   
                         FI - 1485

VANDECAVEYE Gella 5.6.1973 -
je belgijskla judoistka, ki je na OI 1996 osvojila srebrno medaljo v pol težki kategoriji, leta 2004 v Atenah pa še bronasto medaljo v isti kategoriji.

Belgian competitor for judo. At the 1996 Summer Olympics she won the silver medal in the women's half-middleweight category. Four years later, at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, she captured a second medal: a bronze one in the same category.

  
            B - 3458

Vansova Terezia 18.4.1857 - 10.10.1942
je slovaška pisateljica predstavnica prve generacije slovaškega realizma, prva urednica ženskega časopisa Dennica(1897 - 1907), etnografinja.

She helped create the cultural and social life of Slovakia at the close of the 19th century. She attended school in her hometown of Zvolenská Slatina, as well as Banská Bystrica, and Rimavská Sobota. The years she spent in Lomnička and later in Rimavská Píla, her new homes after her marriage to Ján Vansa – a protestant priest – were the background to the realistic memoirs of life in village schools and vicarages. Vansová’s novel Sirota Podhradských (Podhradská, The Orphan), published in 1889, represents the first novel by a Slovak female author. In 1927, Vansová was awarded the national prize for her novel Kliatba (The Curse). Terézia Vansová wrote short stories, drama, translated the writings of Božena Němcová, and compiled a new cookbook (Nová kuchárska kniha) where she published 900 collected recipes. She was also the founder and editor of Dennica (Daily), the first magazine for women ever published in Slovakia, and she was the vice-chairwoman of Živena – the Society of Slovak Women.

                      
               CZ - 1001                         SK - 548

Varming Hanne 13.5.1939 -
je danska kiparka.
Na znamkah DK-1303/4: Dekleti na letališču.

Hanna Varming realised at an early age that she wanted to apply her creative abilities in artistic direction. She modelled her first small pictures at age of six and still keeps a small biblical piece modelled when she was 13-14. Armed with her lower secondary leaving certificate, she found a job at the Royal Porcelain Factory in 1955 where she spent most of her time working on the popular porcelain figures. Hanne attended the Academy of Fine Arts from 1958-65. She learned the naturalist tradition of sculpting based on the techniques of Antiquity and the use of human motifs, a path that has also taken her on journeys to Greece, Egypt and Italy, where she has found herself surrounded by inspiration. Hanne is also in demand as portrait sculptor.
On stamps DK-1303/4: The girls in the Airport.

    
                 DK - 1303/4

VASCONCELOS Joana 8.11.1971 -
portugalska slikarka
"Nektar"

Portugal painter.

 P - 3206

Vassiliadou Georgia 1897 - 1980
je grška filmska igralka.

Greek actress made her debut in 1923 as a chorister in Emani. She played with Kyveli in many plays. Her first film was A Sculptor`s Dream from 1930. She also played in The Grouch (1961), The Midwife (1961), Aunt From Chicago (1959)...

  
          GR - 1962

Vata Shkurte
albanska junakinja, čuvajka proge.

Albanian hero, woman-railroad guard.

 
              AL - 1332

VATOLINA Nina 1915 - 2002

Na znamki RU-806 je njen plakat: Zmagali  bomo.

She was Soviet poster artist. After the break of War Vatolina along with other artists started making artworks, which covered the most acute topics both of battle front and home front. She studied at “Association of State Books and Magazines Publishing Houses” Art Vocational School in1932-1936 and at the Moscow Institute of Fine Arts in 1937-1942. In 1935-1939 studied at V.N. Deni’s studio.

  
          RU - 806
 

VerfaillIe Catherine 1957 -
belgijska biologinja
Na znamki B-3288 je tudi Christine van Broeckhoven.

Professor of Medicine in the Division of Hematology, Oncology and Transplantation, director of the Stem Cell Institute. Her major research interest is stem cell biology.
On stamp B-3288 is also Christine van Broeckhoven.

    
          B - 3288

VIALAR Emilie de sv. (st.) 12.9.1797 - 24.8.1856

She was French nun founder the Missionary Congregation of the Sisters of St Joseph in France in 1832. In Malta she opened a children`s asylum for poor children. 

  
         MT - 1021

Vieira da Silva Maria Elena 13.6.1908 - 6.3.1992

Maria Helena Vieira da Silva is a Portuguese painter of abstractions working in Paris; her canvases can be characterized as grids of vivid colors that sparkle like mosaics. Vieira da Silva studied sculpture with Emile Antoine Bourdelle and Charles Despiau and painting with Achille Emile Orthon Friesz and Fernand Leger. She has won international recognition for her paintings. Since her first postwar exhibition in New York City in 1946 she has exhibited regularly in Paris and throughout Europe. Her work was included in the 1950 and 1954 Venice Biennales and in the 1954 Sao Paulo Bienal. In 1966 the French government gave her its highest artistic award, the Grand Prix National des Arts.

                  
            F - 2582                                      F - 2999                                  P - 2132

Vigee-Lebrun Elisabeth 16.4.1755 - 30.3.1842

Louise Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun achieved an international reputation as a portraitist during her lifetime. She served as painter to Queen Marie Antoinette until the French Revolution forced her into an exile that lasted 12 years. Having escaped with her daughter to Italy, she continued to receive commissions as she traveled and was warmly welcomed in Europe's major capitals. Vigee-Lebrun was introduced to painting by her father, a pastel portraitist who recognized her talent and supported her training. In 1783 she was admitted to the Academie Royale. Her style of portraiture catches her sitters looking alert; they are generally placed within their typical surroundings. For example, Marie Antoinette and Her Children (1787, Versailles Palace) is set in a room of the palace, and the painter in Hubert Robert (1788, Louvre, Paris) is seen at work, holding his palette and brushes. According to her own memoirs, Vigee-Lebrun painted about 900 works, of which more than 200 were landscapes and the remainder mainly portraits.

                      
                    F - 3663                                   RO - 2800                             F - 984

Vilhena Guiomar 1705 - 1789

She was wealthy woman from Madeira. She was owner of last sugar mill on Madeira and owner of huge farm. With her two ships she exported vine to Europa and America. 

Vincent Arlette 1932 -

Coming into television as an announcer, Arlette Vincent quickly became its most popular presenter. She participated in numerous programmes such as Contraste, Magazine F, La preuve par quatre (Proof By Four) and Cinescope. Since 1964, she became the presenter of animal programmes such as Histoires naturelles (Natural Stories) and then of Le jardin extraordinaire (The Extraordinary Garden) (on stamp B-3262), one of Belgian television's most famous programmes, still produced at the present time.
 
  
         B - 3262

VLAŠIĆ Blanka 8.11.1983 -
je hrvaška atletinja in trenutna svetovna prvakinja v skoku v višino, ko je z rezultatom 205 cm zmagala na svetovnem prvenstvu 2007 v Osaki. Njen osebni rekord je 207 cm.

Croatian athlete won at the World Championships in Athletics in Osaka in 2007 in the high jump (205 cm) and became world champion. Her personal record is 207 cm.

  
           HR - 825

Vogt Cecile 27.3.1875 - 4.5.1962

French-German neuropathologist. She studied medicine in Paris where she met her husband, Oskar Vogt. They married and in 1899 moved to Berlin. where they founded a Neurologische Zentralstation which they supported through private practice. Cécile Vogt did much of pioneering work on the neuro-anatomy of the thalamus and together with Hermann Oppenheim (1858-1919) published on hereditary (pseudo-bulbar) palsy, athetose double, in which she noted the mottled appearance of the striatum which was acknowledged by Kinnier Wilson. She made early and most important contributions to disease states of the basal ganglia.  In their later years the Vogts turned also to genetic mutations, using as their specimens the bumblebees and beetles they had collected by the hundreds of thousands on their holiday trips.

    
          D - 1432
 

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