Austria 1977 Modern Art in Austria - Wolfgang Hutter

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  • Label : "Österreichische Post"; (Postal Services of the Second Republic Austria); 1977; commemorative stamp of the issue "Modern Art in Austria";

(issue of 1 stamp)

Stamp datas:

  • Catalogue numbers : Michel: No. 1564; Yvert & Tellier: No. 1394; Scott: No. 1071; AFA: No. 1455
  • Color : multicolored
  • Watermark : none
  • Nominal value : 6 S (Schilling)
  • Postage validity : 02 December 1977 – 30 June 2002
  • Designed by :
- Wolfgang Hutter (1928-2014) (creator of the depicted painting)
- Wolfgang Seidel (* 1946) (engraver of the stamp template)
  • Printed by : "Östereichische Staatsdruckerei", Vienna (Austria)
  • Print process : Recess printing and photogavure, combined on luminescent paper
  • Perforation : Comb perforation, K 13¾ : 14
  • Print run : 3,700,000
  • Stamp size (printed area of a single stamp without signature line) : 28.0 x 37.5 mm


Commemorative stamp of the issue "Modern Art in Austria";
(issue of 1 stamp)

Stamp

Michel No. 1564, mint
Michel No. 1564, postmarked at "5020 Salzburg", 05-10-1978


To the stamp motive:
- 6 S (Schilling) : painting "Das Donaumädchen" by Wolfgang Hutter in the style of the Surrealism with tendencies of the Vienna Sezession, of the Realism, and others art trends of the 20th century (painting as illustration of an old saga about a Danube nixie).