Liechtenstein 2018 Gustav Klimt

• Label : "Liechtensteinische Post AG" of the Principaliy of Liechtenstein; 2018; commemorative stamps of the issue "100th Anniversary of death of Gustav Klimt";
  

meant is the Austrian artist and painter, co-founder of the "Wiener Sezession", Gustav Klimt, 14 July 1862 – 06 February 1918;
(isssue of 2 stamps, each in small sheets à 9 stamps)

Stamp datas:

• Catalogue numbers : Michel: No. 1895-1896; Yvert & Tellier: No. 1835-1836; Zumstein: 1851-1852
  

- Maxicards No. 446

- official FDC

• Color : multicolored with gold
• Watermark : none
• Nominal value : 2.60 – 3.70 (CHF) (Liechtenstein-issue)
• Postage validity : since 05 March 2018
• Designed by :

- Gustav Klimt (1862-1918 (creator of the depicted artworks)

- Silvia Ruppen (* 1949) (stamps)

• Printed by : "Cartor Security Printing S.A.", Meaucé (France)
• Print process : 4-Colors-Offset with Iriodin (lack-grafting for glamour effects), + hot foil pressure gold, all on luminescating paper of 110 g/m²
• Perforation : Comb perforation, K 14¾ : 14½
• Stamp size (printed area of a single stamp inclusive signature line): 31.0 x 49,0 mm

Commemorative stamps of the issue "100th Anniversary of death of Gustav Klimt";
(isuue of 2 stamps)

Stamps, mint

Michel No. 1895, mint

Michel No. 1896, mint

Stamps, postmarked

File:Liechtenstein 2018 Gustav Klimt a1a.jpg Michel No. 1895, postmarked

File:Liechtenstein 2018 Gustav Klimt a1a.jpg Michel No. 1896, postmarked

First Day Cover

To the stamp motives:
- 2.60 (CHF) : painting "The Kiss" by Gustav Klimt (1862-1918), created 1908/1909; contemporary located in the "Österreichische Galerie Belvedere", Vienna
- 3.70 (CHF) : painting "Death and Life" by Gustav Klimt (1865-1918), created in 1910/1911 and 1915/1916 (The original golden background was 1915/1916 overpainted with grey.); contemporary located in the "Leopold Museum" in Vienna (in the there “MuseumsQuartier”)