For the youth - Germany / Saarland 1958 - 1,500 Pfennig
Country | Germany / Saarland |
Issue Date | 1958 |
Face Value | 1,500.00 |
Perforation | K 13 3/4: 14 |
Stamp Type | Postage stamp |
Item Type | Stamp |
Chronological Issue Number | 224 |
Chronological Chapter | GER-SAA |
SID | 640115 |
In 5 Wishlists |
The Deutsche Bundespost follows a resolution of the German Bundestag and issues two special postage stamps with surcharges, which are to be used for study trips of young people to Berlin. The art advisory board of the Deutsche Bundespost dealt in great detail with the topic of these stamps; because of it will depend primarily on the sales success. A group of artists was left free to search for folksy motifs and present them in unlimited color. So here it was important to create brands of lively charm and youthful buoyancy that were obviously unique and therefore desirable. In addition, the committee itself tried to a specific Berlin theme and believed to have found it with the suggestion that would be taken from the cultural-historical importance of Old Berlin porcelain a suitable painter's detail. This special task was entrusted to the Berlin graphic artist Prof. Johannes Boehland, who provided nine proposals of this kind. Ernst Göhlert received two designs, three from Dorothea Stefula, and four designs from Prof. Walter Breker, each with their own theme and a thoroughly exquisite graphic attitude. The Federal Minister for the Post and Telecommunications selected the designs of Ernst Göhlert, which treated in a narrative form topics from German folk songs. The two stamps were printed in a multi-color offset process at Bundesdruckerei Berlin. Since November 20, 1947, the French currency was 1 Franc = 100 centimes on the Saarland stamps. the editorial board therefore records the nominal values from catalog number 226 in centimes.