FRANCE LIBRE - GENERAL DE GAULLE'S ARRIVAL IN BRAZAVILLE, Middle Congo, French Equatorial Africa. Series of 4 commemorative stamps numbered 140 A / D overprinted "LIBRE 24-10-40". Issued stuck on postcards showing photos of the General's arrival in the new capital of Free France: General greeting the crowd & General reviewing the French troops - Very interesting period documents.

Christian Peschke, foundry worker Two men with bare upper bodies next to a sculpture, pouring red-hot liquid metal into a mould embedded in the floor, probably a scene from the ARA Kunstgießerei Altrandsberg, where the artist also had his own sculptures cast, Dr Helmut Bachmaier comments "... Christian Peschke is an artist in whose work life itself is brought into form and colour in a unique way. Vitality and joie de vivre play an eminent role as the driving force and message of his art. Added to this is the colour language of emotions: Feelings take on a special value through colour. He translates emotionality directly into a play of colours, so that the colour surfaces have the effect of vibrating sensations. ... His artistic consciousness is focussed on the figurative or on the essential things that happen to him in life. He does not lapse into a detailed or even photographic realism, but rather artistically seeks a re-creation, a re-creation of things and the body. An enemy of any aesthetic of representation, his aesthetic is committed to the idea of re-creation and the revitalisation of original forms and things. ... In his sense, the artist is someone who reinvents the world, who puts things in a new light ...", expressive painting in powerful colours, oil on plywood panel, c. 2000, indistinctly signed "C. Peschke" lower left, framed in a gilt stucco frame, folded dimensions approx. 120 x 90 cm. Artist info: German sculptor, painter and graphic artist. Sculptor, painter and graphic artist (1946 Bad Säckingen to 2017 Flintsbach), grew up in Spain, France and Stuttgart, attended the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Stuttgart under Gerhard Gollwitzer from 1958 with special permission, from 1962 apprenticeship as a painter and varnisher, from 1967 first sculptures and occupation with painting, 1976-80 training at the Blocherer School of Fine and Applied Arts Munich, settled in Spain as a freelance artist in 1982, lived in Italy for a time, worked temporarily in Aying-Großhelfendorf in the district of Munich, maintained artist friendships with Ernst Fuchs, Salvador Dali and Arno Breker, 2000-2002 lecturer at the Vulkaneifel Academy in Steffeln, 2015 opening of the "Peschke House" Flintsbach am Inn, source: Bütow "Europäisches Künstlerlexikon - Deutschland", homepage of the artist and Wikipedia.