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Mästerman
A pawnbroker takes a girl as security on a debt, and the north goes very quiet.
What
A Swedish placard of 1920 for the Svenska Biografteatern production Mästerman, designed by the painter and book artist Arthur Sjögren.
Why
The Swedish golden age is the other root system of the haunted screen — Sjöström and Stiller taught the Germans that landscape and moral weather could do the work of a monster. Berlin was watching these films closely, and it shows.
Notice
Sjögren was a book designer first, and the poster reads like a title page: ornament, type and image locked into one architecture.
“Dread built out of a debt and a doorway.”
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
- Mästerman (1920), dir. Victor Sjöström
- Country / studio
- Sweden · Svenska Biografteatern
- Designer
- Arthur Sjögren
- Format
- One-sheet (27 × 41 in.)
- Poster published
- Swedish lithographed film placard, 1920
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons
Conservation note
Print produced from an AI-enhanced upscale (≈2×) of the surviving archival scan (original 535×856px). 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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The Double Bill
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