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JOSEF FENNEKER (1895-1956) MARMORHAUS / DIE TRADGÖDIE / EINES GROSSEN. 1920. 28 1/8x37 1/4 inches, 71 1/2x95 cm. Dinse & Eckert, Berlin. Condition B+: repaired tears and creases in margins and image; restored losses along top left edge and corner. Japan. Within a decade afterhe settled in Berlin, in 1918, Josef Fenneker designed over 300 movie posters. He primarily worked for two movie houses, the Marmorhaus and the Mozartsaal, but also designed images for the large German movie producer UFA. From the beginning of his career, Fenneker developed his own personal style, which drew largely on German Expressionism combined with a flair of aesthetic decadence. He primarily depicted elongated and distorted figures emerging from dark backgrounds, and punctuated them with his unusual, hand-drawn typography. This poster advertises a silent movie, The Tragedy of a Great Man, the story of Rembrandt van Rijn. The atmospheric image, with its murky background offset by the wide, adoring eyes of Saskia (Rembrandt's wife) is a curious confluence of Old Master and German Expressionism.
