Way back on 1 February 2017, Poster of the Week looked at Der Januskopf (1920), a lost movie by F.W. Murnau. At the end of the post there was this:

NOTE: There’ll be more from Josef Fenneker throughout February 2017.

The idea was to show off more of Fenneker’s distinctive work, and provide some very basic information about the movies themselves. There were meant to be four such posts, but somewhere along the way, what with all the lead-up to the Oscars, and it proving suprisingly difficult to pick out just four posters, the idea got pushed back and back until February was over and done with. But a good idea is still a good idea, even if it gets delayed, and a rethought idea is even better. So instead of four movie posters to admire (or not, Fenneker is something of an acquired taste), here are eight examples of his work, all startling in their own right, and all testaments to Fenneker’s skill as a graphic artist.

Nerves (1919) / D: Robert Reinert

The Dictatorship of Love Part 2: The World Without Love (1921) / D: Fred Sauer

The Burning Soil (1922) / D: F.W. Murnau

Alcohol (1920) / D: Ewald André Dupont, Alfred Lind

Nemesis (1920) / D: Carmine Gallone

Madame de La Pommeraye’s Intrigues (1922) / D: Fritz Wendhausen

A Debt of Honour (1921) / D: Paul L. Stein

The Devil and Circe (1921) / D: Adolf Gärtner

NOTE: If you’re wondering what “Marmorhaus” (literally “marble house”) refers to, it was a cinema built in Berlin in 1912-13. It was for Marmorhaus that Fenneker designed these and over two hundred and fifty more posters.