Laster der Menschheit
Mihály Bíró, 1927
$150
Print check at 12 x 18 in: 163 dpi, good. Trimmed 2.2% to the shape of the print.
Shipping to a US address: $25.90 for this piece, from the print room in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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Mihály Bíró's 1927 Austrian poster for Laster der Menschheit, a linen-backed sheet of about 125 by 185 centimetres. Bíró was the most consequential political poster designer in central Europe — his 'Red Man' images defined Hungarian social democracy — and after 1919 he worked in Vienna exile, applying the same graphic violence to commercial cinema. The scale of the forms. Bíró designed for people moving past at distance; nothing here is meant to be read close up. An agitator's vocabulary, rented out to the exploitation trade.
- Maker
- Mihály Bíró
- Date
- 1927
- 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-00825
| Picture | 12 x 18 in |
|---|---|
| Outside size | 13.6 x 19.6 in |
| Depth | 0.9 in (22 mm) |
| Weight | [[REAL PROOF NEEDED: shipped weight per size and frame]] |
| Hanging | [[REAL PROOF NEEDED: hanging hardware Prodigi fits to this frame]] |
| Material | Enhanced matte art paper, 200 gsm; acrylic glazing |
| Made in | Charlotte, North Carolina, by Prodigi |
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 | dpi | Grade | How it fits |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 x 12 in | 244 | Excellent | Trimmed 2.2% |
| 12 x 16 in | 166 | Good | Trimmed 9.1% |
| 12 x 18 in | 163 | Good | Trimmed 2.2% |
| Size | Why |
|---|---|
| 8 x 10 in | Wrong shape: a 15% crop |
| 11 x 14 in | Wrong shape: a 13% crop |
| 16 x 20 in | Wrong shape: a 15% crop |
| 16 x 24 in | 122 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 18 x 24 in | 111 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 20 x 30 in | 97 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 24 x 30 in | Wrong shape: a 15% crop |
| 24 x 36 in | 81 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 30 x 40 in | 66 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 36 x 48 in | 55 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 40 x 60 in | 48 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 2,003 x 2,938 px, srgb, GIMP built-in sRGB
- Tone
- Darks 5, lights 236 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0.5% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 15.01
- Notes
- Neutrals lean warm (yellow): the paper and varnish of the original, kept as scanned
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