Faust
Unknown, 1926
No print size passed the check for this piece: at 8 x 10 in, Wrong shape: a 18% crop. We would rather show it than sell a soft print.
See pieces like it you can buyThe 1926 poster for F. W. Murnau's Faust, produced for the UFA / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer release. Murnau's last German film, a summit of studio Expressionism whose imagery of encroaching darkness became instantly iconic. Notice the enormous winged shadow bending down over the huddled rooftops below. Darkness cloaking a small world.
- Maker
- Unknown
- Date
- 1926
- Medium of the original
- One-sheet poster
- Original held by
- Wikimedia Commons
- Credit
- Wikimedia Commons
- Rights
- Cleared for print
- Catalogue number
- PA-00676
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 18% crop |
| 8 x 12 in | 139 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 | 93 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 16 x 20 in | Wrong shape: a 18% crop |
| 16 x 24 in | 69 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 18 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 12% crop |
| 20 x 30 in | 55 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 24 x 30 in | Wrong shape: a 18% crop |
| 24 x 36 in | 46 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 | 27 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 1,119 x 1,700 px, srgb, sRGB
- Tone
- Darks 37, lights 226 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0.1% vivid
- Sharpness
- 3.75
- Notes
- Neutrals lean warm (yellow): the paper and varnish of the original, kept as scanned
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