Christmas - Organ Nativity Scene, Wagrain Parish Church

The Christmas stamp features a sculpture of the Holy Family: the so-called "Organ nativity scene" by Jakob Adlhart in the parish church of Wagrain.

The sculpture is located on a pillar in front of the gallery with the Joseph Mohr Memorial Organ: Joseph Mohr, who wrote the lyrics to the Christmas carol "Silent Night! Holy Night!", was the vicar of this church from 1837 until his death in 1848. The sculptor Jakob Adlhart (1898–1985), the creator of the "Organ nativity scene", produced numerous wooden sculptures for churches, primarily in Salzburg, Upper Austria, and southern Germany. In 1925, he created an expressionist crucifix for St. Peter's Abbey, the Adlhart Cross, which was the motif for the 2010 special stamp series "Sacred art". His works for the Kleine Festspielhaus (now known as the Haus für Mozart) in Salzburg are also very well known, particularly his marble mime masks from 1926 at the entrance. This Christmas stamp will also be issued as a maximum card.