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Der Pfarrer von Kirchfeld
The master of the flat poster silhouette turns his hand to an Alpine village drama.
What
Ludwig Hohlwein's 1926 German poster for Der Pfarrer von Kirchfeld, an adaptation of Ludwig Anzengruber's much-filmed peasant play.
Why
Hohlwein was the most imitated German poster designer of the century's first half, and his reductive, flat-planed style shaped commercial art across Europe. Film commissions from him are comparatively scarce, which makes any surviving cinema sheet worth keeping.
Notice
The way form is built from adjacent flat shapes with almost no line — Hohlwein's signature method, and the reason his work reproduced so well at poster scale.
“A rural morality play, drawn by the coolest graphic hand in Munich.”
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 Pfarrer von Kirchfeld (1926)
- Country / studio
- Germany
- Designer
- Ludwig Hohlwein
- Format
- One-sheet (27 × 41 in.)
- Poster published
- German lithographed film poster, 1926
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons
Conservation note
Print produced from an AI-enhanced upscale (≈2.4×) of the surviving archival scan (original 515×720px). 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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