Art

Number by catalogue:  Michel: 534   Yvert: 483   Scott: 3361   Gibbons: 523  

Perforation type: 11 ¾x11 ¾

Subject:

28 crowns. "Monmartre" (1856), by S.H. Pinkas*.

Additional:

*Soběslav Hippolyt Pinkas (1827 – 1901).

Czech painter, graphic designer and journalist S.H. Pinkas was actively involved in the cultural and political life including, inter alia, the radical student movement in 1848. He studied at the Academy in Prague and Munich and with Coutur in Paris where he lived for several years. Under the influence of the Barbizon school he chose motifs from everyday life. Later on, under the influence of Courbet and Millet, he put more emphasis on realism. On his return to Prague he painted mainly family motifs and portraits.

He was an active member of the artists' association Umělecká beseda and other public associations, maintained relationships with France and in 1898 was granted the order of the Legion of Honour. He also continued his work as a caricaturist and political cartoonist, designed utility things, e.g. faience plates.

The painting "Montmartre", whose engraved version is featured on the postage stamp, dates back to his stay in Paris. At the moment is in Prague National Art Gallery.