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Friday 19 November 2021

2123) Gustav Adolf Hippius's Estonian Bride Painting (1852), Estonia: Omniva (formerly Eesti - Estonian Post) has issued a 0.90 Euro Postage stamp depicting the period painting from the Estonian Art Museum: Date of Stamp issue: 12.11.2021:

2123) Gustav Adolf Hippius's Estonian Bride Painting (1852), Estonia: Omniva (formerly Eesti - Estonian Post) has issued a 0.90 Euro Postage stamp depicting the period painting from the Estonian Art Museum: Date of Stamp issue: 12.11.2021:

About Art - From the treasury of the Estonian Art Museum:

The Art Museum of Estonia was established in 1919 as an institution tasked with collecting cultural history, ethnographic, archaeological, as well as scientific materials and making them available to the public and researchers. This wide mission has also been captured in several of the pieces which were added to the collections of the museum in its first decades. 

About the Painting depicted on the Stamp:

Baltic-German painter and lithographer Gustav Adolf Hippius’s Estonian Bride, for example, is one of the earliest preserved images of an Estonian peasant bride. 

Painted in 1852, this classic piece of Estonian art can also be approached as an ethnographic document from the birth of photography in Estonia. 

Even though the bride, being of peasant origin, may appear  fantastical with her intricate necklaces and an ostrich feather attached to her head covering, according to the art historian Voldemar Vaga, the portrait is "realistic in the full meaning of the word".

The Stamp:


The Stamp of the value of 0.90 Euro depicting the painting.
The First Day Cover (FDC) shows a representation of the painting at left. At top right is affixed the postage stamp cancelled with a special Cancellation Postmark dated - "17.11.2021".


A Sheetlet (S) of 8 Stamps and a coupon depicting the painting.

Technical details:

Issue Date: 17.11.2021

Designer: Lembit Lõhmus

Printer: AS Vaba Maa

Process: Offset

Size: 30.00 mm x 37.00 mm





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