German Expressionism - Germany / Federal Republic of Germany 1974 - 70 Pfennig

The Expressionist paintings, which during the Nazi era were ostracized as "degenerate art" and banished from the German museums, are now considered to be precious possessions of the most important art collections in the world. They are highly valued incunabula of the great art revolution, which soon after the turn of the century freed the painting from the shackles of slavish imitation of nature and traditional academic design rules. While the official salon art of those days was banished to the magazines as insignificant or even cheesy, after the war the works of the painters formerly persecuted by the rulers and earlier cursed as cannibals began to seem so powerful through innumerable reproductions and to influence the sense of art that they are already perceived as classic today. Especially for young people, it seems incomprehensible that this art once caused such violent protests and was pursued so furiously. As part of a series of stamps, of course, it is not possible to spread all the richness of the art period "Expressionism", there are too many great artists who share the glory, renounce recognition, take on need and persecution and art revolutionized for it to have.