German painting

This article covers the stamp series German painting since 2005, for the previous series see German painting of the 20th century .

German painting is a series of stamps from the Federal Republic of Germany. In 2005 it replaced the series German Painting of the 20th Century . So far, every year, with the exception of 2008, in which the first motif was issued as a self-adhesive variant, a new brand motif has appeared. The designs for the series come from Werner Hans Schmidt .

The stamps are printed in multi-color offset printing with a size of 35 × 35 millimeters as a sheet of ten (five postage stamps next to each other, two below each other) in the Bundesdruckerei in Berlin. The coated, white and fluorescent postage stamp paper DP 2 is used for the production of the postage stamps.

The stamps have no uniform postage value. The values ​​of the previous brands fluctuate between 45, 55, 145, 240 and 260 euro cents.

Special stamps
image	description	Values in euro cents	Issue date	Edition	draft	Mi. -No.
	Cologne painting around 1350	55	January 3, 2005	10,500,000 including 125,000 on ETB	Werner Hans Schmidt	2437
	Albrecht Dürer : Self-portrait	145	April 13, 2006	17,500,000 including 125,000 on ETB	Werner Hans Schmidt	2531
	Adam Elsheimer : The excavation of the crosses	55	March 1, 2007	6,500,000 including 105,000 on ETB	Werner Hans Schmidt	2591
	Cologne painting around 1350 self-adhesive from booklet	55	November 11, 2008	45,000,000	Werner Hans Schmidt	2701 MH 76
	Georg Flegel : Still life with cheese and cherries	45	October 8, 2009	6,400,000 including 85,000 on ETB	Werner Hans Schmidt	2761
	Angelika Kauffmann : The abandoned Ariadne	260	March 11, 2010	4,520,000 including 74,000 on ETB	Werner Hans Schmidt	2785
	Caspar David Friedrich : The wanderer over the Nebel sea	55	January 3, 2011	6,900,000	Werner Hans Schmidt	2840
	Caspar David Friedrich: The wanderer over the Nebel sea self-adhesive from roll	55	May 5, 2011	471,080,000	Werner Hans Schmidt	2869
	Adolph Menzel : The balcony room	260	June 14, 2012	7,650,000	Werner Hans Schmidt	2937
	Max Liebermann : The lawn bleach	240	January 2, 2013	?. ???. 000	Werner Hans Schmidt	2974
	Max Liebermann: The lawn bleach self-adhesive from booklet	240	January 2, 2013	?. ???. 000	Werner Hans Schmidt	2979 MH 92

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Philatelie aktuell, No. 23/2010, p. 4.