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Der Eid des Stephan Huller

Name: Der Eid des Stephan Huller
Brand: The Picture Palace
SKU: PA-00732

Willy Dietrich, 1921

The Picture PalacePA-00732Tear sheet

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No print size passed the check for this piece: at 8 x 10 in, Wrong shape: a 19% crop. We would rather show it than sell a soft print.

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A German placard of 1921 for Der Eid des Stephan Huller, designed by Willy Dietrich. The fated-vow melodrama was one of Weimar's most reliable formats, and its moral machinery, a binding promise and an inescapable consequence, is the same machinery that drives the period's supernatural films with the supernatural taken out. Dietrich builds the sheet around a single upright figure against a dominant flat ground, the standard German solution of the moment for a picture sold on one character. Doom arranged by contract rather than by curse.

Maker: Willy Dietrich
Date: 1921
Medium of the original: One-sheet poster
Original held by: Wikimedia Commons
Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Rights: Cleared for print
Catalogue number: PA-00732

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Sizes withheld
Size	Why
8 x 10 in	Wrong shape: a 19% crop
8 x 12 in	137 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
11 x 14 in	Wrong shape: a 18% crop
12 x 16 in	Wrong shape: a 14% crop
12 x 18 in	91 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
16 x 20 in	Wrong shape: a 19% crop
16 x 24 in	68 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
18 x 24 in	Wrong shape: a 14% crop
20 x 30 in	54 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
24 x 30 in	Wrong shape: a 19% crop
24 x 36 in	45 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
30 x 40 in	Wrong shape: a 14% crop
36 x 48 in	Wrong shape: a 14% crop
40 x 60 in	27 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged