Geheimnisse des Orients
Franz Theodor Würbel, 1928
No print size passed the check for this piece: at 8 x 10 in, Wrong shape: a 16% crop. We would rather show it than sell a soft print.
See pieces like it you can buyA 1928 German placard for the Ufa production Geheimnisse des Orients, designed by the Austrian-German painter Franz Theodor Würbel. Directed by Alexandre Volkoff and made largely by émigré Russians working in Berlin and Paris, this is one of the last great silent fantasy spectacles before sound closed the form down. Its production history is a map of interwar European exile. By 1928 the placard has become poised and pictorial — the jagged handmade urgency of 1920 has been smoothed into professional studio advertising. The fantastic, at the very end of its silence.
- Maker
- Franz Theodor Würbel
- Date
- 1928
- Medium of the original
- One-sheet poster
- Original held by
- Wikimedia Commons
- Credit
- Wikimedia Commons
- Rights
- Cleared for print
- Catalogue number
- PA-00726
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 16% crop |
| 8 x 12 in | 141 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 11 x 14 in | Wrong shape: a 14% crop |
| 12 x 16 in | Wrong shape: a 10% crop |
| 12 x 18 in | 94 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 16 x 20 in | Wrong shape: a 16% crop |
| 16 x 24 in | 70 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 18 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 10% crop |
| 20 x 30 in | 56 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 24 x 30 in | Wrong shape: a 16% crop |
| 24 x 36 in | 47 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 30 x 40 in | Wrong shape: a 10% crop |
| 36 x 48 in | Wrong shape: a 10% crop |
| 40 x 60 in | 28 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 1,146 x 1,700 px, srgb, sRGB
- Tone
- Darks 17, lights 233 of 255; 0.4% clipped light, 1.7% clipped dark
- Colour
- 4.7% vivid
- Sharpness
- 0.68
- Notes
- Soft fine detail at full resolution: smaller sizes print crisper
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