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Five Schools, Built to Deepen · Plakat — the Object Poster
Richard Strauss-Woche, festival poster
Ludwig Hohlwein · Richard Strauss-Woche, Munich, 23–28 June 1910, 1910
What it is
Made for the Richard Strauss week in Munich, 23–28 June 1910, and held by the Library of Congress as cph.3g12543.
Why it matters
Hohlwein gives the sheet a single standing figure with a tall staff — often read as Salome, whose opera had made Strauss notorious five years earlier — massed in flat silhouette against bare ground. This is the Hohlwein method at its most reduced: shape and edge doing the work that shading would do elsewhere.
What to notice
Hohlwein's Strauss festival poster: one robed figure, one tall staff, and almost nothing else.
One object, one word, and nothing wasted.
Provenance
- School
- Plakat — the Object Poster (Various)
- Designer
- Ludwig Hohlwein
- Format
- One-sheet
- Poster published
- Richard Strauss-Woche, Munich, 23–28 June 1910, 1910
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division · cph.3g12543
Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. 95-year rule (published 1930 or earlier). Gated by the poster’s own publication year. Cleared by registry on 2026-07-18.
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
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