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Fritz Lach was one of the more accomplished commercial artists working in Vienna during the Jugendstil period, and his involvement in Austrian Notgeld design was not unusual — many municipalities commissioning emergency small change during the post-WWI currency crisis turned to professional graphic artists rather than engravers. Klamm am Semmering is a small Lower Austrian resort community, and its Notgeld issues were among the decorative series that circulated between roughly 1920 and 1922, when the chronic shortage of small-denomination coins made locally issued paper unavoidable.

Lach contributed to multiple municipal Notgeld commissions during this period. Whether Klamm approached him directly or through a Vienna printer is unrecorded.