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Christmas - The Birth
Date of
Issue: November 3, 1997
Stamp Design: Mikulas Klimcak
Stamp Engraving: Martin Cingovsky
Printing: Postal Stationery Printing House, Prague
Print Technology: Rotary-recess printing combined with recess printing
Print Run: 3,000,000
FDC Design: Mikulas Klimcak
FDC Engraving: Martin Cingovsky
Cancellation Design: Mikulas Klimcak
Printing: Postal Stationery Printing House, Prague
Print Technology: Recess printing from flat plate
FDC Print Run: 10,000
© 1997 by Ministry of Transport, Posts and
Telecommunications of the Slovak Republic
The painter Mikulas Klimcak,
who has designed the present emission, was born in 1921 in Humenne,
Eastern Slovakia.
Klimcak
studied at the department of drawing and painting at the Slovak Institute
of Technology in Bratislava and at the Institute of Applied Art in Prague.
His work embraces monumental and decorative projects (including windows
for both sacred and secular architecture, and tapestries), graphics, oil
painting and icon painting on wood, and, occasionally, sculpture.
Klimcak
creates his works not as an observer, but rather as an explorer or
researcher of human life and its essence as it relates to himself, to the
world and to God. His approach is first and foremost one of
self-knowledge, meditation, analysis of the object of research, its
evaluation and, finally, synthesis-the result of his discovering fashioned
into a message for the present and the future. Klimcak
draws his inspiration from contemporary life and from the traditions of
the nation and its ancient history, but his most potent source is the
spiritual domain and faith in goodness.
We have several FDC sets
available at US $12.50
If you are interested in getting one
please send check to:
Vladimir Linder
3804 Yale Street, Burnaby, BC,
V5C 1P6, CANADA
Phone: (604) 291-8065,
Fax: (604) 291-1966
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