Distinguished Artists - Ansis Cirulis (1883-1942)

Description: Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE We offer a combined shipment when you purchase multiple different items, with an additional cost of only $0.50 per extra item ($1 for international shipping). We reimburse over-payments on shipping charges! Please contact us if you need more details. Distinguished Artists - Ansis Cirulis (1883-1942) In celebration of his 135th anniversary on February 25th, Latvijas Pasts issues a two-stamp block dedicated to A.Cirulis in the series Outstanding Latvian Artists with the print run of 25,000 copies and a special cover with the print run of 1000 copies. The face value of each stamp is € 0.50, which corresponds to the cost of sending a regular Class B letter within the territory of Latvia. The motifs of the artist's works from the collections of the Latvian National Museum of Art and the Museum of Decorative Arts and Design, as well as the materials from the interior of the Great Guild and materials form Misins Library of the Academic Library of the University of Latvia have been used in the visual design of the stamp block and the cover created by the artist L.Dinere. Among these there are fragments from the reproduction of the painting The Wedding (1930), from stained glass panels Shipping and Building (1937), as well as elements from his block prints - textile prints via a hand press process. A.Cirulis was born in Majori and was an outstanding 20th century Latvian artist - a graphic artist, a painter and a master of decorative arts whose creations embody special stylization and a defined rhythm of form. The artist is the author of the standard of Latvian state flag (1917). In 1918 A.Cirulis created a sketch for the first postage stamp of the Republic of Latvia - Latvijas Pasts has planned to release a reproduction of the above stamp this year.

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Location: Herndon, Virginia

End Time: 2024-10-13T20:33:47.000Z

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