Statues On Stamps

Switzerland
National Monuments - Battle of Gironico
March 20, 1940
The Battle of Giornico took place on December 28, 1478, at which the Swiss Confederacy troops defeated the Milanese army. The Swiss soldiers rolled large boulders from the hill to attack the Milanese in a narrow valley.
The Battle of Giornico is honored with a monument of Ticino sculptor Apollonio Pessina and found at the northern entrance of the village. It features a Swiss soldier moving a large boulder.

Berlin (Germany)
The 150th Anniversary of the Birth of Reinhold Begas
July 16, 1981
Reinhold Begas (1831 - 1911) was a German sculptor who dominated Prussian sculpture for a generation after 1870. His work is mainly on mythological and decorative subjects and has a strong Baroque influence.
The stamp design chose his marble sculpture Amor und Psyche (1854 - 1857) at The Alte Nationalgalerie in Berlin.

Belgium
3rd Biennial Exhibition of Sculpture, Antwerp
June 10, 1955
Het zotte geweld (1912) is a sculpture by Rik Wouters (1882 - 1916) which shows ecstatic movement of a female dancer. The bronze statue is at Middelheim Open Air Sculpture Museum, Antwerp.

Belgium
The 50th Anniversary of the National Building Society
October 17, 1970
The design features The Mason (1897) by the Belgian artist and sculptor George Minne (1866 - 1941). The marble sculpture is at Musée d'Orsay, Paris. A wood reproduction of the statue is at Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent.

Netherlands
75th Anniversary of Erasmus University Rotterdam
September 27, 1988
Erasmus University Rotterdam is a public university named after Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus (1466 - 1536), a 15th-century humanist and theologian. Dutch sculptor Hendrick de Keyser (1565 - 1621) created the bronze statue of Erasmus in the campus.

Danmark
EUROPA - Poster Art
April 14, 2003
Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770 – 1844) was a Danish sculptor of international fame. His 242 cm tall marble sculpture Jason with the Golden Fleece (1803 - 1828) is a masterpiece of the neo-classic style.

Netherlands
The 5th World Scout Jamboree
April 1, 1937
One of the three commemorative stamps shows a part of Hermes and the Infant Dionysus , an ancient Greek marble sculpture by Praxiteles of Athens (ca. 390-332 B.C.).
Hermes was the messenger god of the ancient Greece. He was a pathfinder to unknown places and was ready to help others.

Romania - Brazil Joint Issue
Statues of Eva
December 21, 2015
Gheorghe Leonida (1892 - 1942) was a Romanian sculptor known for creating the head of Christ the Redeemer, the statue of Jesus Christ in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
The joint issue features his bronze sculpture Eva located in the courtyard of the National Museum of Art of Romania in Bucharest.

Poland
The 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Maria Sklodowska-Curie
August 1, 1967
One of the three stamps shows a 1935 life-size bronze statue in the Maria Sklodowska-Curie Park, beside the Maria Sklodowska-Curie Institute of Oncology (formerly the Radium Institute).

France
Council of Europe
September 20, 1999
The design chose the contemporary sculpture Nike, the Goddess of Victory (1996) of Lithuanian sculptor Petras Mazuras (1949 - ). The life-size bronze statue stands at the European Parliament headquarters, Strasbourg.

Yugoslavia
EUROPA - Sculptures
April 29, 1974
Widow with Child (1909) marble
Ivan Mestrovic (1883 - 1962) was a renowned Croatian sculptor and architect of the 20th Century.

Malta
EUROPA - Sculptures
July 13, 1974
The stamp features a 137 cm-high bronze statue Nina de Vetlina (1927) by the Maltese sculptor Antonio Sciortino (1879 - 1947). The statue is a collection of National Museum of Fine Arts at Valletta, Malta.

Yugoslavia
International Women`s Year
March 8, 1975
The design features marble sculpture Sputana (1952) by Croatian sculptor Frano Kršiniæ (1897-1982).

Croatia
500th Anniversary of the Death of Ivan Duknoviæ
June 23, 2009
Ivan Duknoviæ (1440 - 1509) was a sculptor from Trogir, Dalmatia who was mainly active in Rome, Hungary and in Dalmatia. He was one of the leading sculptors in Rome in the second half of the 15th century.
The commemorative stamp features his statue St. John the Evangelist in the Cathedral of St. Lawrence in Trogir. The XIII Century cathedral is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Italy
Natale
October 10, 1986
The design shows the bronze sculpture Madonna and the Child (c. 1448) by Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi (1386 – 1466). The 160 cm-high bronze statue was for the High Altar of the Basilica di Sant'Antonio, Padua.