Paintings from the Dresden Gemäldegalerie returned from the USSR

The paintings in the Dresden Gemäldegalerie returned from the USSR are the title of three series of stamps issued by the GDR 's Deutsche Post in 1955, 1957 and 1959 . The GDR universal catalog lists the series under the titles of art treasures rescued and returned by the USSR from the Dresden gallery and the return of the rescued art treasures from the Dresden gallery by the USSR . All brands have a uniform presentation and were designed by Erich Gruner . They alone make up about a sixth of all postage stamps of the GDR Deutsche Post, which show exhibits from museums in Dresden .

background

The reason for the issue was the return of the paintings that had been looted to the Soviet Union after the Second World War .

→ Main article : “History” in the article Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister

List of issues and motives

Legend

• Image: An edited image of the brand mentioned. The ratio of the size of the stamps to each other is shown approximately to scale in this article.
• Description: A brief description of the motif and / or the reason for the issue. In the case of issued series or blocks , the descriptions that belong together are indented with a marker.
• Value: The face value of the individual stamp in pfennigs . A "+" means that it is an additional stamp (= postage value + donation).
• Issue Date: The date this stamp was first sold.
• Edition: As far as known, the number of this edition offered for sale is given here.
• Design: As far as is known, it is stated here who designed this brand.
• Mi.-No .: This stamp is listed in the Michel catalog under the corresponding number.

image	description	value	Issue date	Edition	draft	Mi. -No.
	Paintings from the Dresden Gemäldegalerie returned from the USSR (I) "Portrait of a Young Man" by Albrecht Dürer	5	December 15, 1955	4,000,000	Erich Gruner	504
	“ The Chocolate Girl ” by Jean-Étienne Liotard	10	December 15, 1955	4,000,000	Erich Gruner	505
	"Portrait of a Boy" by Pinturicchio	15th	December 15, 1955	750,000	Erich Gruner	506
	" Self-Portrait with Saskia " by Rembrandt	20th	December 15, 1955	4,000,000	Erich Gruner	507
	“Girl reading a letter at the window” by Jan Vermeer van Delft	40	December 15, 1955	2,000,000	Erich Gruner	508
	"The Sistine Madonna " by Raffael	70	December 15, 1955	2,000,000	Erich Gruner	509
	Paintings from the Dresden Gemäldegalerie returned from the USSR (II) “ Holy Family with Saints Elisabeth and Joseph” by Andrea Mantegna	5	June 26, 1957	6,000,000	Erich Gruner	586
	“The dancer Barbarina Campanini ” by Rosalba Carriera	10	June 26, 1957	6,000,000	Erich Gruner	587
	"Portrait of Sieur de Morette" by Hans Holbein the Younger	15th	June 26, 1957	6,000,000	Erich Gruner	588
	" The Interest Groschen " by Tizian	20th	June 26, 1957	6,000,000	Erich Gruner	589
	“ Saskia with the red flower” by Rembrandt	25th	June 26, 1957	6,000,000	Erich Gruner	590
	“A young standard-bearer ” by Giovanni Battista Piazzetta	40	June 26, 1957	1,100,000	Erich Gruner	591
	Paintings from the Dresden Gemäldegalerie (III) returned from the USSR " Self-portrait in the costume of a vestal virgin " by Angelika Kauffmann	5	June 29, 1959	6,000,000	Erich Gruner	693
	"Lady with the Bobbin Pillow " by Gabriel Metsu	10	June 29, 1959	6,000,000	Erich Gruner	694
	"The Magister's niece Mademoiselle Lavergne" by Jean-Étienne Liotard	20th	June 29, 1959	6,000,000	Erich Gruner	695
	"The old woman with the brazier" by Peter Paul Rubens	25th	June 29, 1959	4,000,000	Erich Gruner	696
	"Young man in a black skirt" by Frans Hals	40	June 29, 1959	1,100,000	Erich Gruner	697

See also

• Ancient art treasures returned from the Soviet Union

Remarks

1. ↑ On this stamp the painter is referred to as HARMENSZ REMBRANDT VAN RYN , on Michel number 590 of the same series correctly as REMBRANDT HARMENSZ VAN RIJN
   Further information in: (Peter Tichatzky: Bunte DDR-Briefmarkenwelt. Eulenspiegel Verlag, Berlin 2011, p. 54: How do you spell "Rembrandt" ?, ISBN 978-3-359-02297-8 )

literature

• Michel catalog Germany 1999/2000 , Schwaneberger Verlag, 1999, ISBN 3-87858-028-2
• GDR universal catalog; Edited by Peter Fischer, Frithjof Skupin and Wolfgang Gudenschwager; Publisher: Transpress, Verlag für Verkehrwesen ISBN 3-344-00001-2

Web links

Commons : Postage stamps of the Deutsche Post of the GDR 1955  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Commons : Postage stamps of the German Post of the GDR 1957  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Commons : Postage stamps of the Deutsche Post of the GDR 1959  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files