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Mästerman

Name: Mästerman
Brand: The Picture Palace
SKU: PA-00722

Arthur Sjögren, 1920

The Picture PalacePA-00722Tear sheet

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No print size passed the check for this piece: at 8 x 10 in, Wrong shape: a 22% crop. We would rather show it than sell a soft print.

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A Swedish placard of 1920 for the Svenska Biografteatern production Mästerman, designed by the painter and book artist Arthur Sjögren. The Swedish golden age is the other root system of the haunted screen — Sjöström and Stiller taught the Germans that landscape and moral weather could do the work of a monster. Berlin was watching these films closely, and it shows. Sjögren was a book designer first, and the poster reads like a title page: ornament, type and image locked into one architecture. Dread built out of a debt and a doorway.

Maker: Arthur Sjögren
Date: 1920
Medium of the original: One-sheet poster
Original held by: Wikimedia Commons
Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Rights: Cleared for print
Catalogue number: PA-00722

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How the print check works

Sizes withheld
Size	Why
8 x 10 in	Wrong shape: a 22% crop
8 x 12 in	132 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
11 x 14 in	Wrong shape: a 20% crop
12 x 16 in	Wrong shape: a 17% crop
12 x 18 in	88 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
16 x 20 in	Wrong shape: a 22% crop
16 x 24 in	66 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
18 x 24 in	Wrong shape: a 17% crop
20 x 30 in	53 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
24 x 30 in	Wrong shape: a 22% crop
24 x 36 in	44 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
30 x 40 in	Wrong shape: a 17% crop
36 x 48 in	Wrong shape: a 17% crop
40 x 60 in	26 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged