Alraune
Eric Rohman, 1928
$150
Print check at 12 x 18 in: 163 dpi, good. Trimmed 5.8% to the shape of the print.
Shipping to a US address: $25.90 for this piece, from the print room in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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A Swedish release placard of 1928 for the German film Alraune, designed by Eric Rohman, the Stockholm artist who drew a large share of Sweden's cinema advertising between the wars. Henrik Galeen's Alraune is the German fantastic at full strength — the mandrake legend rebuilt as a story about laboratory creation and its consequences. The Swedish sheets for German horror imports are frequently bolder than the domestic German ones, and Rohman is the reason. Rohman worked in gouache at poster scale, and the surface holds a painterly, slightly liquid quality that lithographed German placards of the same year do not have. Something grown deliberately, and never once asked.
- Maker
- Eric Rohman
- Date
- 1928
- Medium of the original
- One-sheet poster
- Original held by
- Wikimedia Commons
- Credit
- Wikimedia Commons · via Wikimedia Commons
- Rights
- Cleared for print
- Catalogue number
- PA-00727
| Picture | 12 x 18 in |
|---|---|
| Outside size | 13.6 x 19.6 in |
| Depth | 0.9 in (22 mm) |
| Weight | [[REAL PROOF NEEDED: shipped weight per size and frame]] |
| Hanging | [[REAL PROOF NEEDED: hanging hardware Prodigi fits to this frame]] |
| Material | Enhanced matte art paper, 200 gsm; acrylic glazing |
| Made in | Charlotte, North Carolina, by Prodigi |
Before a size goes on sale, the file is measured against it: pixels per inch at that size, how much of the picture a crop would lose, tone and sharpness. A size that fails is not offered, so there is nothing to choose wrong.
| Size | dpi | Grade | How it fits |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 x 12 in | 244 | Excellent | Trimmed 5.8% |
| 11 x 14 in | 189 | Good | Trimmed 9.9% |
| 12 x 16 in | 173 | Good | Trimmed 5.6% |
| 12 x 18 in | 163 | Good | Trimmed 5.8% |
| Size | Why |
|---|---|
| 8 x 10 in | Wrong shape: a 12% crop |
| 16 x 20 in | Wrong shape: a 12% crop |
| 16 x 24 in | 122 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 18 x 24 in | 115 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 20 x 30 in | 97 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 24 x 30 in | Wrong shape: a 12% crop |
| 24 x 36 in | 81 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 30 x 40 in | 69 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 36 x 48 in | 57 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 40 x 60 in | 48 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 2,080 x 2,938 px, srgb, GIMP built-in sRGB
- Tone
- Darks 33, lights 252 of 255; 1.4% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
- Colour
- 6.9% vivid
- Sharpness
- 28.87
- Notes
- Vivid colour: canvas or luster paper shows it best
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