150th anniversary of death of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Germany / Federal Republic of Germany 1982 - 60 Pfennig

On March 22, 1982, the 150th anniversary of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's death, when he was 83, died in Weimar. The special postage stamp goes back to the 1776 portrait of Georg Melchior Kraus (1737-1806), whose 1778 copy painted by Johann Ehrenfried Schumann in the Frankfurter family home of the poet hangs back. In the 1949 volume on Goethe's 200th birthday, the volume »Images from the Frankfurt Goethe Museum«, this picture reads: »What a jubilation this picture triggered when Goethe's parents received it on 30 November 1778 as a gift from the Duchess Anna Amalia ! Only the mother's own words are able to convey in the right way what she felt when she opened the green cloth in the oilcloth: "How the lightning is Ms. Aja behind her, makes the Cordel in one speed and now wants to see what it is - there But so many nails were to be pulled out, that Ms. Aja had to take all her dumb together and wait, the pincers and the hammer did their bit and the lid of the Kästgen went up: now there was still a paper on it, that's what it was away and Mrs. Aja screamed a great cry when she saw her hamlet. We find many equality inside, and have a great glory with it ... since we have not seen it even in 3 years, especially since it is milled in a tailcoat, in which I always liked to have it around me, and he also strives for his usual was. Now it's time to whip it up and put it in the Weimar parlor. " In remembrance of her visit to Frankfurt in June 1778, Anna Amalia secretly copied her court painter Johann Ehrenfried Schumann to the painting of her teacher Georg Melchior Kraus, as she herself wanted to keep the original. "In November 1775, Goethe was from Frankfurt traveled to Weimar, where he had caused quite a stir as a guest of the Duke. There Goethe also met the painter Kraus, whom he knew from Frankfurt, and in 1776 created the portrait of Goethe on behalf of the Duchess. Goethe seems to have found the depiction of Kraus to be correct, for when he was planning the anniversary edition of Werther in 1825, he wanted to add a stitch to the painting so that the people would see: "... as a writer of such great stuff might have said." (Text: Free German Hochstift, Frankfurt Goethe Museum, Frankfurt am Main)