Robert Kalina (born 29 June 1955) is an Austrian designer. For the
National Bank of Austria he created the T 382 design, which was the winning design of the 1996 competition for the art shown on the
euro banknotes
Banknotes of the euro, the common currency of the eurozone (euro area members), have been in circulation since the first series (also called ''ES1'') was issued in 2002. They are issued by the national central banks of the Eurosystem or the Eur ...
. Kalina's design was chosen by the EMI Council (
European Monetary Institute) on 3 December 1996.
However, his initial designs were supposed to feature imaginary bridges, but were discovered to actually be based on real bridges taken from the book ''Bridges - 300 Years of Defying Nature'' and had to be redesigned.
Kalina also designed the banknotes for the
Azerbaijani manat
The manat (ISO 4217, ISO code: AZN; Currency symbol, sign: ₼; abbreviation: m) is the currency of Azerbaijan. It is subdivided into 100 ''gapiks''.
The first iteration of the currency emerged in the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic and its succ ...
, the 2010 series of the
Syrian pound
The Syrian pound or lira (; abbreviation: LS or SP in Latin alphabet, Latin, ل.س in Arabic script, Arabic, historically also Pound sign, £S, and £Syr; ISO 4217, ISO code: SYP) is the currency of Syria. It is issued by the Central Bank of S ...
and the highest-denomination banknote for
Bosnia and Herzegovina convertible mark
The convertible mark ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, konvertibilna marka, конвертибилна марка, separator=" / "; sign: KM; code: BAM) is the currency of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is divided into 100 pfenig or fening ( sh-Cyrl, пфениг or � ...
in 2002.
See also
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Luc Luycx
References
External links
Austrian designers
Currency designers
1955 births
Living people
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