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In Treue stark
A naval loyalty drama given more than two metres of lithographed weather.
What
Fritz Gottfried Kirchbach's 1926 German poster for In Treue stark, a picture drawing on the memory of the Imperial German navy.
Why
Weimar cinema produced a steady run of pictures rehabilitating the wartime military, and their advertising is often more revealing than the films — it shows exactly which emotions the distributor thought were saleable eight years after the defeat.
Notice
The sheer scale of the sky against the vessel; the design withholds heroism and offers atmosphere instead.
“A lost war, repackaged as seamanship.”
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
- In Treue stark (1926)
- Country / studio
- Germany
- Designer
- Fritz Gottfried Kirchbach
- Format
- One-sheet (27 × 41 in.)
- Poster published
- German lithographed film poster, 1926
- 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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