Die Hochzeit von Valeni
Ludwig Hohlwein, 1913
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 buyA German lithographed film placard of 1913 for Die Hochzeit von Valeni, designed by Ludwig Hohlwein. The Commons record establishes the artist, the year and the sheet itself; it names no studio and no director, and neither will we. 1913 is the year German film advertising stopped being typography with a picture attached and started being poster design. Hohlwein was already the country's dominant commercial artist when he took this work, and his arrival in the film trade is a large part of why that shift happened when it did. The Hohlwein signature is visible in the construction: flat interlocking areas of colour meeting edge to edge, with no outline and no modelling doing the work between them. The year the film placard learned to be a poster.
- Maker
- Ludwig Hohlwein
- Date
- 1913
- 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-00735
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 | 116 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 11 x 14 in | 91 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 12 x 16 in | 83 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 12 x 18 in | 77 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 16 x 20 in | Wrong shape: a 11% crop |
| 16 x 24 in | 58 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 18 x 24 in | 55 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 20 x 30 in | 46 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 24 x 30 in | Wrong shape: a 11% crop |
| 24 x 36 in | 38 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 30 x 40 in | 33 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 36 x 48 in | 27 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 40 x 60 in | 23 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 1,001 x 1,400 px, srgb
- Tone
- Darks 9, lights 235 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0.1% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 9.09
- Notes
- Neutrals lean warm (yellow): the paper and varnish of the original, kept as scanned
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