Paintings

1985: Death Centenary of Carl Spitzweg - 'Sunday Walk'

A 'Sunday Walk' for Sunday Stamps, one can almost feel the heat of the day on this painting. The father leads his family holding his hat as an impromptu sunshade and almost hidden in the wheat is a small child holding his hand.

1974: Bicentenary of the Birth of Casper David Friedrich

The day has come to a close and the great German Romantic painter Casper David Friedrich paints 'Man and Woman looking at the Moon' in 1824.  A rare painting of his personal life for this is him and his wife Caroline Bommer who he married in 1818.  For a contrast in style I turn to

1975: Europa - Paintings of Oskar Schlemmer

Oskar Schlemmer (1888-1943) painter, sculptor and theatre designer who interestingly created a robot ballet and so we have the mechanistic creatures painted on the left  in the almost abstract 'Concentric Group' (1929).  This year it is the Bauhaus Centenary so what better stamp than the painting of the 'Bauhaus Staircase' (1932), the last major work of Oskar Schlemmer.  It shows students leaving a class in Walter Gropius's Bauhaus building in Dessau

1986: The Artist Bjørn Winblad

Bjørn Wimblad (1918-2006) liked to portray whimsical round faced people and this design was specially made for this stamp. He was a painter, designer and ceramicist and these same round faces appear on his vases.   Make People Happy was his motto and what raises the spirits more than the sound of bird song.

Sunday Stamps II theme this week is - Paintings - See It On A Postcard