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Les mystères de Paris — Vienna sheet
A Viennese couturier's draughtsman takes on Eugène Sue, and the result is nearly three metres of graphic nerve.
What
Ernst Dryden's 1922 Austrian poster for the Phocéa Film adaptation of Les mystères de Paris, a linen-backed sheet of roughly 95 by 125 centimetres.
Why
Dryden came out of Vienna's poster and fashion world and would later design costumes in Hollywood. Austrian cinema advertising of the early 1920s pulled directly from the Secession and from couture graphics, and this is one of its most confident survivals.
Notice
The compression of a sprawling serial novel into one held gesture — Dryden refuses to itemise the plot.
“Vienna's design schools, briefly working for the box office.”
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
- Les mystères de Paris (1922)
- Country / studio
- France · Phocéa Film
- Designer
- Ernst Dryden
- Format
- One-sheet (27 × 41 in.)
- Poster published
- Austrian lithographed poster, 1922
- 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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