Bohumil Heinz was a Czech artist, who was employed by the NBČS (Národní banka Československá / National Bank of Czechoslovakia) in Prague and also worked for De La Rue.
He engraved postage stamps for Czechoslovakia, Great Britain and her colonies, Greece and Sweden.
He also worked on the banknotes of several countries such as Bohemia & Moravia, Bahamas, Barbados, British Honduras, Czechoslovakia, China, Fiji, Iran, Jamaica, Malaya, New Zealand, Norway, Southern Rhodesia, Thailand and Uruguay.
For Turkey, he engraved the portrait of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk on the E2 series 2½, 5, 10, 50, 100, 500 and 1.000 lira banknotes (*1).
[1] The International Engraver’s Line, Gene Hessler (*49, p. 125).
