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Das indische Grabmal
A maharaja builds a tomb for a woman who is not yet dead.
What
A 1921 German placard for the two-part May-Film epic, designed by Ludwig Hohlwein, the most commercially dominant German poster artist of the period.
Why
The script was written by Fritz Lang and Thea von Harbou, and Lang expected to direct it; losing the film to Joe May is one of the pivotal grievances of Weimar cinema. Its architecture of doom fed directly into everything Lang made afterward.
Notice
Hohlwein's trademark is the flat interlocking colour patch — no outline, no shading, the form built purely from adjacent tones.
“A monument commissioned early, for someone still breathing.”
Format
The full-resolution, color-managed file — restored honestly, yours to print and keep.
Sized to protect print quality — this scan supports sizes up to 18x24" cleanly.
Size
$29.00
Provenance
- Film
- Das indische Grabmal (1921), dir. Joe May
- Country / studio
- Germany · May-Film
- Designer
- Ludwig Hohlwein
- Format
- One-sheet (27 × 41 in.)
- Poster published
- German lithographed film placard, 1921
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons
Conservation note
Print produced from an AI-enhanced upscale (≈1.7×) of the surviving archival scan (original 1000×744px). The upscale raises resolution only — the design is unaltered, and the paper’s folds and age are the artifact’s own.
Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. 95-year rule (poster published 1930 or earlier). Gated by the poster’s own publication year, never the film’s. Cleared by registry on 2026-07-18.
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