Thursday, June 3, 2021

Liechtenstein Post Portrait of Famous Vistors - Hermann Hesse

LIECHTENSTEIN POST in 1981 issued commemorative stamps of "Paintings of Famous Visitors to Liechtenstein", among these being the German writer Hermann Hesse. Shown in this issue was the "Portrait of Emil Sinclair", a pseudonym Hermann Hesse used in 1917 after being severely criticised for his pacifist writings. Artist Cuno Amiet rendered this particular portrait of Hesse in the Swiss  modernism  style in 1919.

Color: multicolored with gold 

Watermark: none N

Nominal value: 1.00 Franc

Stamp picture size (printed area without signature line): 28.0 x 27.5 mm


 

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