- Condition: MNH (**)
- Year: 2009
- Catalogue: Scott / Michel
- Number(s): 4105 / 5330
- Catalog value: 0,65 $ / 0,8 €
- Internal ID: 011_15
- Size: 30 x 40 mm
- Categories: EASTER 2009, art, painting, barcode.
- DE: Ungarn.
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EASTER 2009
Date of issue: 24 February 2009.
With the Easter holiday approaching, true to its traditions
Magyar Posta is issuing a postage stamp.
The new stamp offered as a festive decoration to adorn cards and
letters in 2009 is based on a work by the painter Zoltán Réti
entitled Shepherd’s Cross. In the middle of the composition
in the distance there is a shepherd in a black hat surrounded by
white lambs, the harbingers of spring and renascence. In the
foreground life-giving ears of wheat can be seen beneath the blue
sky. The painting is also a portrayal of Christ crucified. The
first day cover for the stamp features the painting “Outdoor
Mass” by the same artist. The design of the special postmark
employs a detail of the painting on the cover, the stylised Christ
crucified in front of the church. Zoltán Réti (1923) was born in
Nagyoroszi, then lived in Érsekvadkert and, from the age of 10, in
Balassagyarmat. He graduated as a teacher and cantor from the
Teacher Training College in Miskolc in 1942. He was taken prisoner
during military service and an adventurous journey took him from
the North Sea to Bavaria, where he made a living as a portrait
painter and church organist. After he returned to Hungary in 1946,
he taught in Patvarc, where he was the cantor and choir master. In
1953 he obtained a degree as a music teacher in Budapest. He
founded a music school in Balassagyarmat, where he was the director
and a teacher for twenty years. For several decades he taught at
the Bajcsy Primary School, the Balassi Bálint Secondary School, the
Teacher Training College and the Szántó Kovács János Secondary
School.
He did not abandon his studies in the fine arts, which were
interrupted by World War II, and completed his studies at the
Hungarian College of Fine Arts in 1969. Although he works in oils
and graphics, his preferred medium is watercolours, and his
favoured subjects are landscapes and famous sons of Nógrád county
(the writers and poets Madách, Mikszáth, Balassi, Komjáthy) as well
as portraying the Bible.
He has won numerous awards and distinctions: the Apáczai Csere
János Award, the Madách Award, the Gold Cross of Merit of the
Republic of Hungary and the Szabolcsi Bence Award. He is an
honorary citizen of Nógrád county, Nagyoroszi, Balassagyarmat and
Érsekvadkert. (Source: https://www.agt.bme.hu/balassi/retiportre.html)
TECHNICAL CARACTERISTICS
Order number: 2009011010031 (stamp) / 2009011060032 (FDC)
Date of issue: 24 February 2009.
Printed by Pénzjegynyomda
Designed by Péter Nagy
Photograph by József Hajdú
Perforated size of stamp: 30 x 40 mm (50 stamps/sheet)
Number of copies to be printed dependent on demand.
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