Die Pagode
Willy Dietrich, 1923
No print size passed the check for this piece: at 8 x 10 in, Wrong shape: a 17% crop. We would rather show it than sell a soft print.
See pieces like it you can buyAn original German distribution placard of 1923 for Die Pagode, designed by Willy Dietrich. Weimar's appetite for invented Asias ran alongside its appetite for ghosts, and often through the same studios and the same designers. These orientalist fantasies are where the period's set-building imagination went when it was not building crooked streets. The Commons record identifies this as an original distribution poster rather than a later reissue — an uncommon thing to be able to say about German paper from this year. An architecture that existed only on a soundstage and a sheet of paper.
- Maker
- Willy Dietrich
- Date
- 1923
- 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-00725
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 17% crop |
| 8 x 12 in | 125 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 11 x 14 in | Wrong shape: a 16% crop |
| 12 x 16 in | Wrong shape: a 12% crop |
| 12 x 18 in | 83 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 16 x 20 in | Wrong shape: a 17% crop |
| 16 x 24 in | 62 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 18 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 12% crop |
| 20 x 30 in | 50 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 24 x 30 in | Wrong shape: a 17% crop |
| 24 x 36 in | 41 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 30 x 40 in | Wrong shape: a 12% crop |
| 36 x 48 in | Wrong shape: a 12% crop |
| 40 x 60 in | 25 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 1,000 x 1,512 px, srgb
- Tone
- Darks 0, lights 223 of 255; 0.2% clipped light, 9.6% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 7.67
- Notes
- Shadows clip on 10% of the image: the darkest areas print as solid black
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