''The Wretched of the Isles'', 1951, movie poster painting by Boris Streimann
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''The Wretched of the Isles'', 1951, movie poster painting by Boris Streimann
Artist
Movie World Posters
Medium
Painting - Movie Posters
Description
Base painting of the vintage movie poster for ''The Wretched of the Isles'', 1953.
Base art is the poster artwork after the text has been digitally removed. It thereby closely recreates the original painting used for the poster. As practically all those original paintings have been lost, a recreation attempts to display the original art before the movie studios added descriptive text. See also our collection "Movie Poster Base Paintings."
About the artist:
Boris Streimann (1908 Riga - 1984 Friedberg) was a German painter of film posters and other subjects. He worked as a graphic and commercial artist during the 1920s and 1930s, doing artwork mainly for the UFA advertising service, along with Hegewald-Film, Deutsche Fox A.G., Tobis, and Bavaria.
From 1945 on, he produced film posters and advertisements for Union-Film, Deutsche London-Film, Eagle-Lion, and J. Arthur Rank. He also designed book covers, soap advertisements, and advertising posters for the industry.
He often signed his art as B. Namir. His film poster art has been noted for its dynamic use of fine brushwork, colors, and the energy expressed through his subjects. Like Hans Otto Wendt, he used hand-brushed lettering for many of his poster titles.
It's hard to remain indifferent to the haunting charm of Boris Streinmann's movie posters. Accomplice to a color palette of dark tones, characterized by deep reds, greens, and grayish blues, his posters appear mysterious and intriguing. The portraits are extremely expressive close-ups that almost look like cinematic flashbacks of the main scene. The compositions, made with fine brushwork and hand-brushed lettering, are always arranged on two temporal planes. Streinmann's achievement is an atmosphere of gloomy but never confusing hues.
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November 4th, 2022
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