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Ein Sommernachtstraum (A Mid-Summer Night's Dream)

Ein Sommernachtstraum (A Mid-Summer Night's Dream)

Erno Metzner
German
1925
A 1925 lithograph poster by Erno Metzner for Ein Sommernachtstraum (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), designed to seize attention and advertise the theatrical/film event with a single, unforgettable image.
You’re confronted by a pale, mask-like face with unnervingly mechanical, glowing eyes set within dark, swirling green shapes and framed by bold, gold Gothic lettering, producing an uncanny, nocturnal glamour.
A striking example of Weimar-era graphic modernism, it shows how Expressionist imagery and dramatic typography were used in the 1920s to translate theatre and early cinema into powerful mass-market visuals.
Medium
Lithograph
Dimensions
27 1/2 × 37 1/2" (69.9 × 95.3 cm)
Classification
Credit
Given anonymously
Accession
85.1961
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