Austria Post has joined other Postal Services and released a special Christmas 2020 stamp that is devoted to Christmas star. The design of this special item will get you in the Christmas spirit: a Christmas star shining above an idyllic mountain village. Hoping to create a traditional Christmas atmosphere, Roland Vorlaufer designed this great issue. For his work he used classic ink and gouache on blue paper.
The stamp depicts typical Austrian mountain village scene in winter: a narrow, pointed church tower; the roofs of the houses covered in snow; dim, crepuscular lighting, and lights burning behind the windows. In the background a mountain panorama can be seen. However, what immediately draws the attention is the bright, gleaming star with its comet’s tail directly above the village — a heavenly body that is exactly how most of us imagine the Star of Bethlehem. According to the Gospel of Matthew, this star led the three wise men from the East to the stable in which Jesus was born.
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