notgeld artists (specific people)

Several fairly ‘common’ notgeld were designed and drawn by Alfred Hanf (1890 – 1974). The set of 5 ‘Luther’ pieces from Erfurt, set of ...

Wilhelm Busch (1832 – 1908) was a famous German artist, poet, cartoonist and illustrator. He can be seen as one of the founders of ...

I am slowly trying to get a list together of all the notgeld artists. I stumbled upon this name ‘Georg Goldstein’ on some pieces ...

Oskar Herrfurth (1862-1934) is one of several 19th century German illustrators of ‘The Adventures of Baron Munchausen’. He illustrated many legendary stories from German ...

Koetschau, Georg. Painter, draftsman. Koetschau was the illegitimate son of a seamstress who moved to Jena with him in 1890. His ancestors were probably long-established free ...

Willi Lange, also known as Willi Otto Max Lange, was a German painter and graphic artist, born on June 8th, 1876 in Altona. He ...

Some collectors may have come across an artist’s initials of ‘WHL’ on some of their notgeld pieces – see below: Rathenow (‘Huzar’ set of ...

A few fairly common sets the collector will come across, have something very similar to their looks. The similarity is quite striking. Here is ...

Several of the verkehrsausgaben and serienscheine notgeld issues show the name or initials of the graphic artist ‘Heinz Schiestl‘ on them. Schiestl was one ...

Georg Schleinitz, born October 3, 1893 in Dresden – died 1969 in Marburg, was a graphic artist, book illustrator and painter. After his schooling, ...

I was recently able to acquire a very exciting piece of notgeld, I thought was from Neumeuhl. However, I couldn’t find it in the ...