Mi 463 B: 1 Zl. slate grey Definitive: Polish Culture, thin grey paper, imperf.

Condition: used.

Issued: 18th May 1947.

Catalogue Reference: Michel Europa-Katalog Band 7: Osteuropa 2009/2010.

Catalogue number(s): Mi 463 B.

Seller's Reference: SB/(ʘ)/004.

Additional descriptive notes (if applicable): this postage stamp appears on a variety of papers, which are not listed in detail in the Michel catalogue.  This copy is printed on a thin grey paper.

The stamp depicts:

Jan Alojzy Matejko was a Polish painter known for depicting historical Polish political and military events. His works include large oil on canvas paintings such as Rejtan, Union of Lublin or Battle of Grunwald, numerous portraits, a gallery of Polish kings, and murals in St. Mary's Basilica, Kraków. He is referred to as the most famous Polish painter or even the "national painter" of Poland.

Jacek Malczewski was a Polish symbolist painter who is one of the most revered painters of Poland, associated with the patriotic Young Poland movement following a century of Partitions. He is regarded as the father of Polish Symbolism. His creative output combined the predominant style of his times, with historical motifs of Polish martyrdom, the romantic ideals of independence, Christian and Greek mythology, folk tales, as well as his love of the natural world. He was the father of painter Rafał Malczewski.

Józef Marian Chełmoński was a Polish painter of the realist school with roots in the historical and social context of the late Romantic period in partitioned Poland. He is famous for monumental paintings now at the Sukiennice National Art Gallery in Kraków and at the MNW in Warsaw.

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