Der Pfarrer von Kirchfeld
Ludwig Hohlwein, 1926
No print size passed the check for this piece: at 8 x 10 in, Wrong shape: a 11% crop. We would rather show it than sell a soft print.
See pieces like it you can buyLudwig Hohlwein's 1926 German poster for Der Pfarrer von Kirchfeld, an adaptation of Ludwig Anzengruber's much-filmed peasant play. Hohlwein was the most imitated German poster designer of the century's first half, and his reductive, flat-planed style shaped commercial art across Europe. Film commissions from him are comparatively scarce, which makes any surviving cinema sheet worth keeping. The way form is built from adjacent flat shapes with almost no line — Hohlwein's signature method, and the reason his work reproduced so well at poster scale. A rural morality play, drawn by the coolest graphic hand in Munich.
- Maker
- Ludwig Hohlwein
- Date
- 1926
- Medium of the original
- One-sheet poster
- Original held by
- Wikimedia Commons
- Credit
- Wikimedia Commons
- Rights
- Cleared for print
- Catalogue number
- PA-00740
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 11% crop |
| 8 x 12 in | 141 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 11 x 14 in | 110 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 12 x 16 in | 101 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 12 x 18 in | 94 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 16 x 20 in | Wrong shape: a 11% crop |
| 16 x 24 in | 70 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 18 x 24 in | 67 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 20 x 30 in | 56 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 24 x 30 in | Wrong shape: a 11% crop |
| 24 x 36 in | 47 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 30 x 40 in | 40 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 36 x 48 in | 33 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 40 x 60 in | 28 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 1,216 x 1,700 px, srgb, sRGB
- Tone
- Darks 46, lights 246 of 255; 0.1% clipped light, 0.1% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 3.02
- Notes
- Neutrals lean warm (yellow): the paper and varnish of the original, kept as scanned
The Picture Palace
German Expressionism: shadow printed to the stone.
All 183 pieces from The Picture Palace
