General Exhibition of Polish Art in Lemberg — Józef Mehoffer, 1910
Józef Mehoffer, 1910
No print size passed the check for this piece: at 8 x 10 in, Wrong shape: a 19% crop. We would rather show it than sell a soft print.
See pieces like it you can buyMehoffer’s poster for the General Exhibition of Polish Art, held in Lemberg (now Lviv). Mehoffer worked alongside Wyspiański on Kraków’s stained glass and murals — this poster carries Young Poland’s decorative-symbolist language to a national, not just Kraków-local, showcase. Ornamental border patterning treated with the same seriousness as the central figure, the movement’s signature move. A national art, announcing itself in one shared visual language.
- Maker
- Józef Mehoffer
- Date
- 1910
- Medium of the original
- Exhibition poster
- Original held by
- Wikimedia Commons
- Credit
- Wikimedia Commons · via Wikimedia Commons
- Rights
- Cleared for print
- Catalogue number
- PA-00882
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 19% crop |
| 8 x 12 in | 146 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 11 x 14 in | Wrong shape: a 17% crop |
| 12 x 16 in | Wrong shape: a 13% crop |
| 12 x 18 in | 97 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 16 x 20 in | Wrong shape: a 19% crop |
| 16 x 24 in | 73 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 18 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 13% crop |
| 20 x 30 in | 58 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 24 x 30 in | Wrong shape: a 19% crop |
| 24 x 36 in | 48 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 30 x 40 in | Wrong shape: a 13% crop |
| 36 x 48 in | Wrong shape: a 13% crop |
| 40 x 60 in | 29 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 1,172 x 1,800 px, srgb, sRGB IEC61966-2.1
- Tone
- Darks 63, lights 244 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 142.53
- Notes
- Neutrals lean warm (yellow): the paper and varnish of the original, kept as scanned
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