To mark the 125^th anniversary of the artist, Latvijas Pasts releases a two-stamp block dedicated to Gustavs Klucis in the series Outstanding Latvian Artists with a print run of 20,000 copies and a special cover with a print run of 1,000 copies. The face value of each stamp is € 1.00, which corresponds to the postage of letter-post items in the weight class up to 20 grams within Latvia. 

 

The visual design of the philatelic releases created by the artist Lilija Dinere is based on the reproductions of Gustavs Klucis’ works Konstrukcija (Construction) (1919–1920) and Konstrukcija (Construction) (1920–1921) held in the collection of the Latvian National Museum of Art, as well as the artist’s portrait photographs from the Misiņš Library of the Academic Library of the University of Latvia.

 

Gustavs Klucis is one of the best known artists of Latvian origin in the world. Initially he was engaged in painting, but in 1918 he took to photomontage, made posters and designed agitation art objects, as well as monumental decorations for public holidays of Soviet Russia. He spent his creative life in Moscow, where the artist gained fame as an outstanding representative of Russian avant-garde art. After the tragic death of Gustavs Klucis during Stalin’s Great Purge, his name was literally erased from the history of art, and it took several decades for the artist’s works to return to exhibition halls.

 

Gustavs Klucis is the only Latvian artist whose works are exhibited in the world’s leading museums of modern art alongside his teacher Kazimir Malevich (1879–1935) and other giants of the 20^th century avant-garde art. The world’s largest and most substantial collection of the artist’s works is held in the Latvian National Museum of Art. 

 

The stamp block and the cover Gustavs Klucis – 125 will first be available for purchase in Riga post office No. 10 at 14/43 Elizabetes Street, Riga post office No. 50 in the shopping centre Origo at 2 Stacijas laukums, post centre Sakta at 32 Brīvības bulvāris, Riga, as well as in the e-shop of Latvijas Pasts https://veikals.pasts.lv/. 

 

The stamp series Outstanding Latvian Artists has been issued since 2016 and four stamp blocks dedicated to different Latvian artists have been released over this time: Janis Rozentāls (2016), Jānis Tīdemanis (2017), Ansis Cīrulis (2018) and Johans Valters (2019). All philatelic releases in this series can be viewed here. 

 

The new stamp block and the cover Gustavs Klucis – 125 can be seen here. 

 

The next philatelic release is scheduled for the 21^st of August.

 

 

Latvijas Pasts ensures the widest availability of postal services throughout Latvia by maintaining more than 600 post offices. The primary function of the company is provision of the universal postal service; Latvijas Pasts also provides commercial transport, express mail, payment, press subscription, retail and philatelic services. Latvijas Pasts is a wholly State-owned company with over 3,400 employees. The quality measurements of Latvijas Pasts domestic mail deliveries are regularly conducted by Kantar TNS, one of the leading market, social and media research agencies in Latvia. In turn, the quality measurements of the cross-border deliveries are provided within the framework of the International Post Corporation through the intermediary of the research companies Kantar TNS, Ipsos and Quotas.

 

 

Additional information:

Vineta Danielsone | Senior Public Relations Project Manager

E-mail: pr@pasts.lv, vineta.danielsone@pasts.lv 

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