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50 Heller Atzbach
| Issuer | Gemeinde-Vorstehung Atzbach (Municipality of Atzbach) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Size | 88 × 62 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | ATZBACH 50 KLEMENS BROSCH-URFAHR A.D.DONAU ERSTE AUFLAGE. |
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| Reverse lettering | Gutschein der Gemeinde Atzbach 50 Dieser Gutschein verliert seine Giltigkeit einen Monat nach erfolgter Bekanntmachung .- Nachahmung wird gesetzlich bestraft. Gemeinde-Vorstehung Atzbach Der Bürgermeister: Johann Hummer |
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Klemens Brosch was a printmaker of genuine reputation — his woodcut work had been exhibited and collected before his death in 1926 — which makes his involvement in Austrian Notgeld design something of a footnote to a serious artistic career, though not an uncommon one for the period. The postwar collapse of the krone forced hundreds of Austrian municipalities to commission emergency scrip, and small printers and artists across Upper Austria found themselves filling that gap.
Atzbach itself is a small commune near Vöcklabruck. That a note bearing Johann Hummer's signature as municipal authority was designed and printed by a Urfahr-based artist rather than a Vienna or Graz house is entirely consistent with how localized Notgeld production became by 1920.