Weimar Posters and Art Prints
Description: Metropolis is a 1927 German expressionist science-fiction drama film directed by Fritz Lang and written by Thea von Harbou in collaboration with Lang from von Harbou's 1925 novel of the same name. Intentionally written as a treatment, it stars Gustav Fröhlich, Alfred Abel, Rudolf Klein-Rogge, and Brigitte Helm. Erich Pommer produced it in the Babelsberg Studios for Universum Film A.G. (UFA). The silent film is regarded as a pioneering science-fiction movie, being among the first feature-length movies of that genre. Filming took place over 17 months in 1925–26 at a cost of more than five million Reichsmarks, or the equivalent of about €21 million.
Description: Between the first and second world wars, the German Weimar government decided it could repay its war debts by printing money. This devalued the currency immensely and resulted in hyperinflation, leading to the release of billion and trillion mark notes. Image from the National Numismatic Collection at the National Museum of American History.
Description: The school of Bauhaus gave birth to a range of minimalist looking products in the 20th century. Architecture, furniture and graphic design among others have left elegant and austere looking creations that are esthetically working to this date. This is my take to recreate the Bauhaus style, seen on the posters from the 1920s.
