Postfila / 0452


		WORKS OF ART ON POSTAGE STAMPS - ADOLF KOSÁREK
		ISSUE OF THE COMMEMORATIVE STAMP
Date of issue:		9. 11. 2005
Face value:		22 CZK
Size of the stamp:		40 x 50 mm
Engraver:		Václav Fajt
Method of printing:		recess print from flat plate in yellow, red, green, blue and brown
Subject of the stamp:		Adolf Kosárek (1830-1859): Summer Landscape (detail), 1858, The Prague Castle collections The outstanding Czech painter of landscapes A. Kosárek attended the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague as a student of M. Haushofer. At the beginning he tried to express the contemporary type of an ideal romantic landscape but he gradually moved to realism based on a penetrating study of nature. Well known are his versions of the Landscape with a Bridge but he was attracted also with lonely and solitary lands. At the close of his short life he painted balladic pictures of the Czech landscape while arriving at a synthetic monumental form. The painting “Summer Landscape”, whose detail is featured on the postage stamp, is an apposite expression of the summer atmosphere and life of the period.
Catalogue No.:		0452



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