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V&A South Kensington
Design 1900 to Now, Room 74

Artist/Maker

Bayer, Herbert (designer)

Banknote, colour lithographic print on paper

Object details

Categories	Currency Prints
Object type	Banknote
Materials and techniques	Colour lithograph on paper Ink Card Colour Lithography
Brief description	Emergency banknote for the Thüringische Staatsbank, 1923. Designed by Herbert Bayer. 1,000,000 Mark note, printed in red.
Physical description	Banknote, colour lithographic print on paper
Dimensions	Height: 74mm Width: 141mm
Gallery label	(2021) Banknotes worth millions Following the First World War, Germany suffered from hyperinflation as a result of having to pay war reparations. To cope, the government issued more money, leading to a drastic decline in the value of the German currency. As its value dropped, higher denominations needed to be designed urgently. Herbert Bayer, then a student at the Bauhaus art school, created these new notes, each with values of several million. As inflation continued to soar, these notes quickly became obsolete. Emergency money 1923 Designed by Herbert Bayer Issued by Thüringische Staatsbank, Germany Colour lithograph Museum nos. CIRC.385, 391-1969 The object sits in the 'Crisis and Conflict' section of the Design 1900-Now gallery opened in June 2021.
Associations	Germany Thuringen
Bibliographic reference	Taken from Departmental Circulation Register 1969
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	CIRC.385-1969

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Record created	June 30, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1035784/banknote-bayer-herbert/

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