Bauhaus Exhibition Postcard — Farkas Molnár, 1923
Farkas Molnár, 1923
No print size passed the check for this piece: at 8 x 10 in, Wrong shape: a 22% crop. We would rather show it than sell a soft print.
See pieces like it you can buyFarkas Molnár’s typographic design for the same 1923 Bauhaus exhibition postcard series. The Bauhaus commissioned the same small, cheap format from multiple students and masters — a whole design philosophy tested at postcard scale before it scaled up. A different geometric logic than the Moholy-Nagy card alongside it — the same brief, genuinely different answers. One school, testing itself against itself.
- Maker
- Farkas Molnár
- Date
- 1923
- Medium of the original
- Exhibition poster
- Original held by
- Wikimedia Commons
- Credit
- Wikimedia Commons · via Wikimedia Commons
- Rights
- Cleared for print
- Catalogue number
- PA-00896
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 | Why |
|---|---|
| 8 x 10 in | Wrong shape: a 22% crop |
| 8 x 12 in | 110 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 11 x 14 in | Wrong shape: a 21% crop |
| 12 x 16 in | Wrong shape: a 17% crop |
| 12 x 18 in | 73 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 16 x 20 in | Wrong shape: a 22% crop |
| 16 x 24 in | 55 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 18 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 17% crop |
| 20 x 30 in | 44 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 24 x 30 in | Wrong shape: a 22% crop |
| 24 x 36 in | 36 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 30 x 40 in | Wrong shape: a 17% crop |
| 36 x 48 in | Wrong shape: a 17% crop |
| 40 x 60 in | 22 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 887 x 1,421 px, srgb, sRGB IEC61966-2.1
- Tone
- Darks 22, lights 245 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 29.51
The Poster Atlas
The national-parks series: the parks belonged to everyone, and so did the art.
All 46 pieces from The Poster Atlas
