Simon Lehner – How far is a lightyear?, 2005–2019 24.06.2025

The young Austrian artist Simon Lehner creates hybrid artworks that engage with a wide range of themes.

Born in 1996, Simon Lehner studied Photography and Time-Based Media at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. While his artistic practice is rooted in photography, it expands into painting techniques and image processing. Using archival photographs as a starting point, he creates three-dimensional photographic objects and installations that are digitally altered and enriched with painterly elements. In his cycle "How far is a lightyear?", Lehner explores themes such as masculinity, trauma, and the development of identity within the family. Childhood photographs are digitally reworked and recomposed into new visual narratives and compositions.

Series: Photographic art in Austria
Value: 3.10 euros
Day of issue / available from: 29.08.2025
First day: 4810 Gmunden
Stamp size: 32.50 x 40.00 mm
Perforation measurement: 13 ½ x13 ½  
Graphic design: Theresa Radlingmaier
Printing: Joh. Enschedé Stamps B. V.
Printing technique: offset printing
Quantity: 180,000 stamps on sheets of 50 units each