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Die Hochzeit von Valeni
A wedding somewhere east, drawn by the most commercially certain hand in Germany.
What
A German lithographed film placard of 1913 for Die Hochzeit von Valeni, designed by Ludwig Hohlwein. The Commons record establishes the artist, the year and the sheet itself; it names no studio and no director, and neither will we.
Why
1913 is the year German film advertising stopped being typography with a picture attached and started being poster design. Hohlwein was already the country's dominant commercial artist when he took this work, and his arrival in the film trade is a large part of why that shift happened when it did.
Notice
The Hohlwein signature is visible in the construction: flat interlocking areas of colour meeting edge to edge, with no outline and no modelling doing the work between them.
“The year the film placard learned to be a poster.”
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 11x17" cleanly.
Size
$29.00
Provenance
- Film
- Die Hochzeit von Valeni (1913)
- Country / studio
- Germany
- Designer
- Ludwig Hohlwein
- Format
- One-sheet (27 × 41 in.)
- Poster published
- German lithographed film placard, 1913
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons
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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