International Stamp Exhibition - Germany / German Democratic Republic 1972 - 35 Pfennig

International Stamp Exhibition in the GDR "Interartes" For the International Stamp Exhibition in the GDR "interartes", the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications of the German Democratic Republic issued four multicolored special postage stamps, two of them with surcharge. The sums collected will be handed over to the Philatelistenverband der DDR in the Kulturbund. INTERARTES 72 in the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin For the fourth time, stamps of the German Democratic Republic present exhibits of the State Museums of the GDR's capital city, Berlin. While the series of 1958 and 1959 saw the rescue and return of significant works by the Soviet Union, and advertised the 1966 edition for Babylonian art treasures, the most recent issue is INTERARTES 72, a stamp exhibition with international participation 14 countries, thematically dedicated to the field of art and culture and takes place from 4 October to 5 November 1972 in the Old Museum on Marx-Engels-Platz and in front of the world-famous Pergamon Altar in the Pergamon Museum am Kupfergraben. With this exhibition, the Philatelistenverband der DDR in the Kulturbund, in close cooperation with the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, is taking a completely new, promising path by presenting the stamp exhibits, the themes of architecture, fine and applied arts, folk art, literature, music and the arts treat the performing arts, original works of art from the respective areas are set aside. Paintings, graphics and sculptures, architectural drawings and models, products of folk art, books and autographs of famous writers, musical instruments and scores, set design and posters and much more, enter into a direct, living relationship to the diverse message of the stamp exhibits. In this way, philately is for the first time placed organically in the great frame of art and culture. In detail, the four INTERARTES special stamps show the following art treasures of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin: 35 + 5 Pfennig value Max Lingner is one of the most important pioneers of socialist art in Germany. A member of the Communist Party of France since 1934 and a member of the Resistance during the Second World War, he was the most popular publicist of the Humanitarian, Avant-Garde and Monde during the 1930s and 1940s. In his mostly large format tempera paintings, he painted the simple people of the people out of deep affection, especially the French girls and women, their charm and their self-confidence. The painting "Grape vendors in the South of France", which goes back to a travel impression in Nimes and was created in 1949, the year of Lingner's return to Germany, is the visual balance of his work in France. It contains all the features of his "Socialist Realism in Action" (H. Barbusse): Simplicity and exhilaration in the linear stylized, mural-like form as well as an activating optimism in the vividly typified image of man. Max Lingner donated forty of his best works in 1949, which can be seen today in the National Gallery and other museums in the GDR.