Charles Billich
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Charles Billich (born 1934, in Lovran, Croatia)
He was named Official Artist of the 1996 Summer Olympics. He is the recipient of the 2000 Sport Artist of the Year Award presented annually by the American Sport Art Museum and Archives.
He was named Official Artist of commemorating the centenary of the presentation of the first Nobel Prize for Peace to Red Cross founder Henry Dunant.
Inspired by his work entitled The Beijing Cityscape, the official image for the successful Beijing bid to host the 2008 Olympic Games, he has conceived a sensational series of images based on the Bing Ma Yong Terracotta warriors. So well received has this work been that Bing Ma Yong images are represented on a collection of 16 postage stamps currently in circulation in China a first for an as to the cultural worth of this collection.
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