© Slovak Post, 2006 Jozef Cincík – a visual artist, illustrator, graphic designer, art historian, stage designer, editor, and university professor - was born on March 8, 1909 at his parents’ adopted abode of Clopodia, Romania. After the family returned to Slovakia in 1914, he attended the elementary schools in Kláštor pod Znievom and Trnava, Lučenec grammar school, and Charles University in Prague where he graduated in law. After 1932 he worked at the Matica slovenská as an officer and later as secretary of the Artistic Division, also managing the State Office for the Protection of Historical Monuments for Central Slovakia, and simultaneously studying philosophy and art history at Komensky University, Bratislava. Jozef Cincík illustrated books and publications, graphically edited Matica publications, elaborated designs of Slovak postal stamps, and participated in the design of Slovak banknotes. He was co-founder of the Slovak Chamber Theatre (Slovenské komorné divadlo) and contributed to the foundation of the Neografia printing works. He was an artistic advisor for the design of stages and costumes for Frič's movie ‘Jánošík’, as well as other plays staged by the Slovensky spevokol. Cincík also published expert studies and monographs in art history. In 1945 he immigrated to the USA where he gave lectures on archaeology and sacred art history. Subsequently he worked as an independent artist on church interiors and other sacral structures. Cincík died in Danville (USA) on January 28, 1992, and was buried at the National Cemetery in Martin (Slovakia). Apart from Jozef Cincík's portrait, the stamp contains motifs based on his stamps Kniežatá (Princes, 1944) and on the FDC based on the stamp Poštový kongres (Post Congress, 1942). The details come from the Slovak National Library (Martin) archive and book collection. Magdaléna Brincková