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Laster der Menschheit
The man who drew the red hammer for Hungary's labour movement turns his poster arm on a vice film.
What
Mihály Bíró's 1927 Austrian poster for Laster der Menschheit, a linen-backed sheet of about 125 by 185 centimetres.
Why
Bíró was the most consequential political poster designer in central Europe — his 'Red Man' images defined Hungarian social democracy — and after 1919 he worked in Vienna exile, applying the same graphic violence to commercial cinema.
Notice
The scale of the forms. Bíró designed for people moving past at distance; nothing here is meant to be read close up.
“An agitator's vocabulary, rented out to the exploitation trade.”
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 24x36" cleanly.
Size
$29.00
Provenance
- Film
- Laster der Menschheit (1927)
- Country / studio
- Germany · International Film
- Designer
- Mihály Bíró
- Format
- One-sheet (27 × 41 in.)
- Poster published
- Austrian lithographed poster, 1927
- 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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