Stuart Webbs: Das Rattenloch
Ludwig Hohlwein, 1921
No print size passed the check for this piece: at 8 x 10 in, 123 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged. We would rather show it than sell a soft print.
See pieces like it you can buyA small German film advertisement of 1921, measuring 29.5 by 21.5 centimetres, designed by Ludwig Hohlwein for an instalment of the long-running Stuart Webbs detective series. The Stuart Webbs films were Germany's home-grown answer to the imported detective serials and ran for years. That a designer of Hohlwein's commercial standing took work at this modest scale shows how much care the trade put into even its small-format paper. At barely larger than a sheet of writing paper this is a handbill or programme piece rather than a street placard, and Hohlwein has adjusted, tightening the composition for the hand rather than the hoarding. A master poster artist, working small.
- Maker
- Ludwig Hohlwein
- Date
- 1921
- Medium of the original
- Poster
- Original held by
- Wikimedia Commons
- Credit
- Wikimedia Commons · via Wikimedia Commons
- Rights
- Cleared for print
- Catalogue number
- PA-00733
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 | 123 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 8 x 12 in | 111 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 11 x 14 in | 89 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 12 x 16 in | 82 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 12 x 18 in | 74 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 16 x 20 in | 61 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 16 x 24 in | 55 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 18 x 24 in | 54 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 20 x 30 in | 44 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 24 x 30 in | 41 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 24 x 36 in | 37 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 30 x 40 in | 32 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 36 x 48 in | 27 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 40 x 60 in | 22 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 986 x 1,334 px, srgb
- Tone
- Darks 58, lights 191 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 20.84
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