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Der Bär von Baskerville
The German screen takes the moor-hound for its own and finds it was always a horror story.
What
A German lithographed placard for a wartime instalment of the long-running German Sherlock Holmes screen series, designed by the Viennese-born commercial artist Ernst Deutsch, later known as Ernst Dryden.
Why
Germany ran its own Holmes cycle in parallel with the British and American ones, and pulled it steadily toward the gothic. The Baskerville material was the natural hinge, and posters like this one advertised detection as something closer to dread.
Notice
Deutsch's poster style is poster-first rather than illustration-first — heavy contour, flat fields, lettering weighted as a design element rather than a caption.
“The detective story sold as a night on the moor.”
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
- Der Bär von Baskerville (1916)
- Country / studio
- Germany
- Designer
- Ernst Deutsch (Ernst Dryden)
- Format
- One-sheet (27 × 41 in.)
- Poster published
- German lithographed film placard, 1916
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons
Conservation note
Print produced from an AI-enhanced upscale (≈2.4×) of the surviving archival scan (original 466×700px). 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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