Fifth Vienna Secession Exhibition Poster — Koloman Moser, 1899
Koloman Moser, 1899
No print size passed the check for this piece: at 8 x 10 in, Wrong shape: a 15% crop. We would rather show it than sell a soft print.
See pieces like it you can buyMoser’s poster for the Secession’s fifth exhibition, three years before the XIII poster elsewhere in this collection. A second Moser exhibition poster lets the collection show his graphic language developing across the Secession’s early run, not just at one moment. Tighter, more symmetrical ornament than his later work — the Werkstätte geometry not yet fully arrived. A movement, still finding its own house style.
- Maker
- Koloman Moser
- Date
- 1899
- Medium of the original
- Exhibition poster
- Original held by
- Wikimedia Commons
- Credit
- Wikimedia Commons · via Wikimedia Commons
- Rights
- Cleared for print
- Catalogue number
- PA-00886
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 15% crop |
| 8 x 12 in | 50 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 11 x 14 in | Wrong shape: a 13% crop |
| 12 x 16 in | 34 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 12 x 18 in | 33 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 16 x 20 in | Wrong shape: a 15% crop |
| 16 x 24 in | 25 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 18 x 24 in | 22 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 20 x 30 in | 20 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 24 x 30 in | Wrong shape: a 15% crop |
| 24 x 36 in | 16 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 30 x 40 in | 13 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 36 x 48 in | 11 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 40 x 60 in | 10 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 409 x 600 px, srgb
- Tone
- Darks 8, lights 210 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0.3% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 91.1
- Notes
- Neutrals lean warm (yellow): the paper and varnish of the original, kept as scanned
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