Die Suffragette

Ernst Deutsch-Dryden's 1913 poster for Urban Gad's Die Suffragette, a German feature made while the British suffrage campaign was at its most militant. German cinema took the suffrage movement as contemporary subject matter within months of the events themselves. The poster is evidence of how quickly the new medium metabolised politics — and of how it preferred to package that politics as a portrait rather than a cause. The extreme vertical proportion, better than two to one, which forces the composition into a column and gives the dog a role it would not have in a wider format. A political movement, sold as a silhouette.

Maker

Ernst Deutsch-Dryden

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-00737