Vladimir Stenberg (1899–1982) and Georgii Stenberg (1900–1933) were Russian avant-garde Soviet artists and designers, best known for designing film posters for Sergei Eisenstein’s movies, Dziga Vertov’s documentaries and numerous imported films.
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| Movie posters in the 1920s by the Stenberg Brothers |
The pair worked in a constructivist and, later, productivist styles, in a range of media, initially sculpture, subsequently theater design, architecture, and drafting. Their design work spanned clothing, shoes, and rail carriages, but they are most notable for their frequent use of film stills and their innovative approach to composition, which replaced traditional styles with non-narrative collage or assemblage.
“Ours are eye-catching posters,” Vladimir explained, “designed to shock. We deal with the material in a free manner . . . disregarding actual proportions . . . turning figures upside-down; in short, we employ everything that can make a busy passerby stop in their tracks.” The inventive results included a distortion of perspective, elements from Dada photomontage, creative cropping, an exaggerated scale, a sense of movement, and a dynamic use of color and typography, all of which “created a revolutionary new art form: the film poster.”
Here below is a set of amazing movie posters designed by the Stenberg Brothers in the 1920s.
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| The Eyes of Love, the Stenberg Brothers, 1923 |
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| Countess-Shirvanskaya's Crime, the Stenberg Brothers, 1926 |
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| The Punch, the Stenberg Brothers, 1926 |
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| The Screw from Another Machine, the Stenberg Brothers, 1926 |
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| The Traitor, the Stenberg Brothers, 1926 |
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| Daddy's Boy, the Stenberg Brothers, circa 1927 |
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| In the Spring, the Stenberg Brothers, 1927 |
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| The Pounded Cutlet, the Stenberg Brothers, circa 1927 |
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| The Street Merchants Deed, the Stenberg Brothers, circa 1927 |
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| Which of the Two, the Stenberg Brothers, 1927 |
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| 6 Girls in Search of Shelter, the Stenberg Brothers, 1928 |
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| A Real Gentleman, the Stenberg Brothers, 1928 |
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| Gossip, the Stenberg Brothers, 1928 |
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| Sep, the Stenberg Brothers, 1928 |
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| Sep, the Stenberg Brothers, 1928 |
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| The Man from the Forest, the Stenberg Brothers, 1928 |
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| The Sold Appetite, the Stenberg Brothers, 1928 |
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| The Unvanquished, the Stenberg Brothers, 1928 |
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| Fragment of an Empire, the Stenberg Brothers, 1929 |
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| Jimmy Higgins, the Stenberg Brothers, 1929 |
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| Symphony of a Big City, the Stenberg Brothers, 1929 |
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| The General (Alternate Version), the Stenberg Brothers, 1929 |
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| The General, the Stenberg Brothers, 1929 |
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| The Last Flight, the Stenberg Brothers, 1929 |
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| The Man with the Movie Camera, the Stenberg Brothers, 1929 |
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| A Fearless Man, the Stenberg Brothers, circa 1920s |
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| Drano Stenberg Mash Up, the Stenberg Brothers, circa 1920s |
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| The-Pencil, the Stenberg Brothers, circa 1920s |
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