50th anniversary of death - Austria / II. Republic of Austria 1968 - 2 Shilling

Koloman Moser is one of the most important and distinguished artists who worked in Vienna at the turn of the century. With his advocacy for a new "modern" art, for a new relationship to applied art, for a new Gesamtkunstwerk, in which from the architecture to the smallest decoration element all things of the daily life should be formed by artist hand, he determined a new style. Moser belonged with the architects Josef Hoffmann and Joseph Maria Olbrich to the founding members of the Vienna Secession, on whose design he took significant influence. Also with Josef Hoffmann founded Koloman Moser the artistic character of the Wiener Werkstätten, which he left, however, three years later. From the design of a single postage stamp developed a close collaboration with the postal directorate, so that his artistic conception determined almost the entire appearance of the post office. But Moser's main concern was painting. Here, too, he pursued a strict area principle. When he died on October 18, 1918, after a long illness, a few months after his fiftieth birthday, the epoch, whose artistic face he had helped to shape, was extinguished. The brand image shows a portrait of the artist.