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20 Heller St. Georgen an der Gusen
| Issuer | Market Town of Sankt Georgen an der Gusen (Federal State of Upper Austria) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Printer | Klemens Brosch, Linz |
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| Reverse description | The reverse repeats the purple and black floral underprint of an unidentified flowering plant with the denomination at the lower left. A central white text panel, outlined in green and overlaid with green lettering, carries the place-name and edition inscriptions against a background echo of the same botanical motif. |
| Reverse lettering | St. Georgen, A.D. Gusen I. Auflage KLEMENS BROSCH LINZ 1920. ZWEITE FASSUNG, ERSTE AUFLAGE (Translation: Sankt Georgen an der Gusen First Edition KLEMENS BROSCH LINZ 1920. Second version, First Edition) |
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Klemens Brosch was a Linz-born artist who died by suicide in 1925 at thirty-one, leaving behind a body of work now considered among the most distinctive in early twentieth-century Austrian graphic art. His Notgeld commissions — small-town emergency currency issued during the postwar paper money shortage — are among the most collectible of the entire Austrian series precisely because his draughtsmanship was genuinely exceptional rather than decoratively adequate.
Sankt Georgen an der Gusen was a modest market town, and the Brosch connection is the reason this note exists in any serious collection at all.