20 Heller Weitersfelden

Klemens Brosch was one of the most gifted graphic artists working in Upper Austria in the early twentieth century, and his death by suicide in 1925 at age thirty-six cut short a career that had already produced striking work across poster art, illustration, and — briefly — Notgeld. This 20 Heller piece is among the small number of emergency currency issues he both designed and printed himself from his workshop in Urfahr, across the Danube from Linz.

Weitersfelden is a small market commune in the Mühlviertel uplands. That a village of its size commissioned Brosch directly is unusual; most comparable municipalities used regional print shops with no particular artistic ambition.