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500th birthday of Albrecht Dürer - Germany / German Democratic Republic 1971 - 40 Pfennig

Designer: Horst Naumann, Dresden

500th birthday of Albrecht Dürer - Germany / German Democratic Republic 1971 - 40 Pfennig


Theme: Calender
CountryGermany / German Democratic Republic
Issue Date1971
Face Value40.00 
Colorblack brown
PerforationK 12 1/2: 13
Printing Typeoffset
Stamp TypePostage stamp
Item TypeStamp
Chronological Issue Number1415
Chronological ChapterGER-DDR
SID375283
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500th Anniversary of Albrecht Dürer On the occasion of the 500th birthday of Albrecht Dürer, the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications of the German Democratic Republic issues three multicolored special postage stamps. Albrecht Dürer On the occasion of his 500th birthday on May 21, 1971, the German Democratic Republic honors the great painter, graphic artist and art theorist Albrecht Dürer. It continues a tradition that goes back to the dawn of the working-class movement and is supported by the idea that everything that has been valuable and forward-looking in the history of human society has entered the culture of the working class and victorious socialism as a permanent legacy is recorded. Dürer's rich work is marked by the great class struggles of the early bourgeois revolution, which culminated in Germany in the Peasants' War and the Reformation. Allied with the progressive forces of his time, he gave an artistic synthesis in a unique synthesis of the whole variety of her worldview and in his realistic art formulated an ideal of the creatively acting human being who determines his fate. This image of humanity, which only begins to be fully fulfilled in socialism, the deep humanistic content and the beauty of its works are the reasons for the current significance of the great Renaissance master in the present. Dürer has accomplished the most important achievements as a graphic designer and draftsman. Shortly after the first Italian journey (1494/95), at the same time as he was working on his ingenious juvenile work, the woodcut cycle for the biblical "Apocalypse", the engraving was made with the armed "Three Farmers in Conversation" (40-pfennig value) , He is a testimony to the sympathy and respect that Dürer presented in several graphic and graphic works of this class fighting against their feudal and bourgeois oppressors, and an artistic document of the fermenting unrest among the peasants on the eve of the Great German Peasants' War.

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500th Anniversary of Albrecht Dürer On the occasion of the 500th birthday of Albrecht Dürer, the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications of the German Democratic Republic issues three multicolored special postage stamps. Albrecht Dürer On the occasion of his 500th birthday on May 21, 1971, the German Democratic Republic honors the great painter, graphic artist and art theorist Albrecht Dürer. It continues a tradition that goes back to the dawn of the working-class movement and is supported by the idea that everything that has been valuable and forward-looking in the history of human society has entered the culture of the working class and victorious socialism as a permanent legacy is recorded. Dürer's rich work is marked by the great class struggles of the early bourgeois revolution, which culminated in Germany in the Peasants' War and the Reformation. Allied with the progressive forces of his time, he gave an artistic synthesis in a unique synthesis of the whole variety of her worldview and in his realistic art formulated an ideal of the creatively acting human being who determines his fate. This image of humanity, which only begins to be fully fulfilled in socialism, the deep humanistic content and the beauty of its works are the reasons for the current significance of the great Renaissance master in the present. Dürer has accomplished the most important achievements as a graphic designer and draftsman. Shortly after the first Italian journey (1494/95), at the same time as he was working on his ingenious juvenile work, the woodcut cycle for the biblical "Apocalypse", the engraving was made with the armed "Three Farmers in Conversation" (40-pfennig value) , He is a testimony to the sympathy and respect that Dürer presented in several graphic and graphic works of this class fighting against their feudal and bourgeois oppressors, and an artistic document of the fermenting unrest among the peasants on the eve of the Great German Peasants' War..