Commemorative stamp series - Germany / German Democratic Republic 1980 - 10 Pfennig

To the games of the XXII. Olympiad, 2nd edition To the games of the XXII. Olympics 1980 in Moscow, the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications of the German Democratic Republic as a second edition three multicolored special postage stamps, including one with surcharge, and a special postage stamp block out. The sums raised will be made available to the Society to promote the Olympic idea in the GDR. Games of the XXII. Olympiad 1980, 2nd edition For the first time in the history of the modern Olympic movement, the summer games, the games of the XXII. 1980 Olympics, held in the capital of a socialist state, in Moscow. Also for this series were selected works of fine art with sportive motives. Between sport and the arts of the GDR, creative relationships have emerged that find their common ground in the socially important goal of making specific contributions to the development of socialist personalities and to shaping their way of life. The sport of the GDR became a fully valid subject of the visual arts of the GDR. Erhard Schmidt (born 1933) leads with his painting "Judo" (1976, oil, 155 x 190 cm, owned by the sports school of the DTSB of the GDR "Arthur Becker" Bad Blankenburg) in an all-important situation of this dueling sport. Filled to the frame of the picture, the inevitable, inevitable, of the imminent victory of one Judoka and the defeat of the other is relived. Reproduction is at the 10 pfennig value.