Twenty-seven artists - all members of the Altamira Association, a collaboration of artists working to preserve nature - will show their paintings, graphic works and sculptures at the exhibition. Among them are Pál Kő, Miklós János Kádár, Líviusz Gyulai, István Orosz and Erzsébet Valaczkai.
Four of the association's members regularly design stamps, museum official Gabriella Nikodém told kultura.hu.
Minister of Environmental Protection and Water Management Miklós Persányi, speaking at the opening of the exhibition, praised the role the artists had taken on.
By focusing on nature in their work, they will save for posterity many species that may be extinct within a hundred years, Persányi said. At least half of animal species living in Europe today and eight hundred species of plants are endangered, he added.
The exhibition will remain open until October.
The Stamp Museum is located at Hársfa utca 47, in Budapest's District VII.
Author: Gabriella Valaczkay
