"Moonscape" by Petr Ginz
issue of the commemorative miniature sheet
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The fate of the drawing "Moonscape" by Petr Ginz |
issue of the commemorative miniature sheet |
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| Date of issue: | 20.1.2005 | |
| Face value: | 31,00 CZK | |
| Printing sheets: | A1 | |
| Size of the stamp: | 76 x 116 mm | |
| Graphic Artist: | Pavel Hrach | |
| Engraver: | Václav Fajt | |
| Method of printing: | recess print from flat plates in black combined with coloured offset | |
| Subject of the stamp: | Petr Ginz (1928-1944) was born in Prague to a Jewish family. Already at the elementary school he proved to be a universally talented boy who contributed to the school magazine. On 24.10.1942 he was deported to the Terezín Ghetto where he continuted writing articles and drawing pictures which were saved thanks to his friend who survived the nazi terrors. His pictures are deposited in the Yad Vashem Art Museum in Jerusalem. The stamp shows the famous Ginz’s pen drawing “Moonscape” with a view of the Earth from the Moon. The tragic fate of Petr Ginz, who died in the autumn of 1944 in Auschwitz, sadly continued in the crash of the rocket plane Columbia STS 107. The Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon took with him into the space a facsimile of this pen drawing in the desire to fulfil after 58 years P. Ginz’s dreams. However after 16 days of space research the lives of all 7 astronauts ended with a disaster on the landing manoeuvre on 1.2.2003 which was also a culmination of the emotional fate of the Ginz’s drawing. | |
| Miniature sheet: | the rocket plane Columbia | |
| Catalogue No.: | A 0422 | |
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