100th birthday - Austria / II. Republic of Austria 1970 - 2 Shilling

Alfred Cossmann fell in love with the pure copper engraving, which had become unfashionable in his time, and with great energy and incredible diligence he learned this technique and soon became master in it. This led to the Vienna School of Copper Engraving in the first half of the 20th century, and Cossmann's works received recognition and recognition from graphic artists and art lovers throughout the world. Cossmann was born on October 2, 1870 in Graz, but spent most of his life in Vienna. At the beginning of the year 1886 the young man came to the "imperial city", in 1951 he died here. So he experienced the end of the "Ringstraßenzeit", the artistic awakening at the beginning of the 20th century, the distress during the World Wars, the transformation of Austria-Hungary into the Republic of Austria, until the new beginning of Austria after 1945. Vienna has no time for so much unrest Brought about changes and upheavals, such as the more than six decades that Cossmann lived in Vienna. The brand image shows a portrait of the engraver Alfred Cossmann.