Sunday, August 18, 2024

Deutsche Post 500th Birth Anniversary of Albrecht Dürer

DEUTSCHE POST (DDR/East Germany) on 18 May 1971 issued three First Day Cover stamps commemorating the 500th birth anniversary of Albrecht Dürer. The stamps represented etchings/woodcuts created by Dürer. A special FDCpostmark was imprinted on the stamps.

The stamps featured on the FDC included:
- "Self-portrait of Dürer", 1500.
- "Three Farmers in Talk Around", 1497.
- "Philipp Melanchthon" (1526) (born Philipp Schwartzerdt; 1497 – 1560) was a German Lutheran reformer, collaborator with Martin Luther, the first systematic theologian of the Protestant Reformation, an intellectual leader of the Lutheran Reformation, and influential designer of educational systems.

 

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