International Transport Exhibition (IVA), Munich 1965 - Germany / Federal Republic of Germany 1965 - 15

The reason for publishing this series of special postage stamps was the International Transport Exhibition in Munich, which lasted from 25 June to 3 October. In the first planning, the brand program included only six values, for which a call for tenders was organized among nine artists. Their task was to demonstrate traffic on rail, road, in the air and on the water at each mark, and to present space travel and the postal and telecommunications system. The way in which the participants wanted to accomplish this task was left to them without any specific topics or objects being named. Günther Hugo Magnus, Karl Oskar Blase, the couple Hans Förtsch and Sigrid von Baumgarten, Nikolaus Müller, Dieter von Andrian, Hans Schweiß and Paul Froitzheim each received series of six values, Günther Kieser one of them five values. Reinhart Heinsdorff participated with two series of six sheets each. If one wanted to classify these ten series in broad terms, one could find out a first group, in which the choice of topic is reduced to a few details, but which comes in such a decision nevertheless to accurate formulations for the different modes of transport. Two artists juxtapose old and new and in this way arrive at results with a reportable and historically instructive character. Because this was most appropriate for the purpose of the exhibition, the choice fell on such a series created by Günther Hugo Magnus. In the further processing, the series was extended by a seventh dedicated to traffic education value. This value of 5 pfennigs is executed in multicolor offset printing, all other values ​​were reproduced in multicolour copper gravure printing. The visitors to the International Transport Exhibition were able to observe the printing of the special stamps at 10, 15 and 20 Pf on an exhibition stand at Bundesdruckerei Berlin. The machine had been specially made for this purpose in Munich.