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Zeke Turner
Women's Wear Daily.
New York Observer. DI. Studio 360.
German Newspapers.
Twitter. Facebook.
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Zeke Turner
Maybe because the euro design is so tame, it seems every European misses their old national currency. In Germany, the economic motor of Europe, there is still political and aesthetic nostalgia for the deutsche mark. An article published by Der Spiegel online in honor of the euro’s 10th anniversary referred to the bank note’s design as both “schnöde” (contemptible) and “lahm” (lame). Michel Prieur, a French numismatist, would prefer that European masters, great artists and thinkers, appear on the bank notes. “The people in Brussels are so stupid that they consider that if they would put Picasso or a painting by Picasso on a bank note of Europe, the other countries but France and Spain would be jealous,” he says. “This is an insanity. Picasso is from the European culture. You cannot say that he is a Spaniard or a French. He’s European! The guys in Brussels are so small that they cannot think big. They try to fight this nationalism, but it existed only in their narrow minds.”
