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Title: Hans-Otto Wendt
Post by: peckinpah on February 09, 2017, 05:37:12 PM
One of my favorites. I'll come back with some information on him I researched years ago, he was most active 1950 - 1959 for Warner Bros. I have a few nice ones...
Title: Re: Hans-Otto Wendt
Post by: eatbrie on February 09, 2017, 07:50:12 PM
Very, very nice.  Thanks for bringing it up.

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Title: Re: Hans-Otto Wendt
Post by: BruceH on February 09, 2017, 07:59:45 PM
Those are nearly impossible to find.

Just remarkable.
Title: Re: Hans-Otto Wendt
Post by: erik1925 on February 09, 2017, 08:10:43 PM
Wendt did some beautiful work. Those are fantastic, Mike.
Title: Re: Hans-Otto Wendt
Post by: peckinpah on February 10, 2017, 03:39:58 AM
I wish he had done more. Maybe he was a little old by then (he had already worked in the 30s). He did less than 100, while some German artists painted 500-1000!
His double panels for REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE & EAST OF EDEN I'D love to have. Also the 10,000.- to buy them both :).

Some others I have:
Title: Re: Hans-Otto Wendt
Post by: peckinpah on February 10, 2017, 03:47:13 AM
I would love to upload more stuff here at the forum. Maybe I'm the only one who has problems with this website, but uploading isn't much fun unfortunately, for me anyway: I have about 5000 image files of my posters in my computer, files between 200 - 800kb. When I try to upload I get the message "file too big" all the time. At least when I try to upload up to 5 or 8. Then I have to go back and do it all over again, but with maybe 2 or 3 attachments only. Suddenly it works for certain images (500 kb is too small. Up to 800 would be ok)... Takes too much time and I surely don't have the time to downsize 1000 posters images in my computer :).

Title: Re: Hans-Otto Wendt
Post by: martinc on February 10, 2017, 06:00:35 AM
The Prince and the Showgirl is really nice. I struggle with updating images too, thanks for putting these up - it was worth the effort!     
Title: Re: Hans-Otto Wendt
Post by: peckinpah on February 10, 2017, 11:05:12 AM
few more
Title: Re: Hans-Otto Wendt
Post by: brude on February 10, 2017, 11:51:15 AM
Hans Otto-Wendt.  Wow!
 clap clap clap clap
Title: Re: Hans-Otto Wendt
Post by: peckinpah on April 20, 2017, 03:31:14 AM
more
Title: Re: Hans-Otto Wendt
Post by: peckinpah on April 30, 2017, 03:51:59 AM
40 years of collecting, but I guess last week for the very first time I bought a poster
because of the artist. The film is nothing special, but is was cheap and I just love Wendt :).
Title: Re: Hans-Otto Wendt
Post by: peckinpah on January 24, 2018, 04:28:48 AM
Recently got one of my favorite posters ever...

(http://up.picr.de/31620788lp.jpg)
Title: Re: Hans-Otto Wendt
Post by: erik1925 on January 24, 2018, 09:06:49 AM
Awesome looking poster there, Mike. Congrats on the pickup.

 thumbup
Title: Re: Hans-Otto Wendt
Post by: Harry Caul on January 24, 2018, 10:15:28 AM
Recently got one of my favorite posters ever...

(http://up.picr.de/31620788lp.jpg)

Great poster!  What size is it? 
Title: Re: Hans-Otto Wendt
Post by: Tob on January 26, 2018, 05:07:31 AM
That's a great looking poster. I love how Natalie Wood is gazing at Dean. Very cool.
Title: Re: Hans-Otto Wendt
Post by: peckinpah on January 27, 2018, 07:50:14 AM
Harry, it is a "Din A0 quer" (German double panel, 46x33 inch)

I did get another Wendt I always wanted, being a serious Wayne-collector :). But the film is not important,
to say the least, and it used to be too expensive (for my money anyway, some $400-500), so I had to wait
for 30 years to finally get it "rather cheap" ($200.-):

(http://up.picr.de/31647290yc.jpg)
Title: Re: Hans-Otto Wendt
Post by: Tang Lung in Rome on January 30, 2018, 06:49:02 PM
Amazing posters......my friend would die if he had to wait for anything , much less 30 yrs :P
Title: Re: Hans-Otto Wendt
Post by: okiehawker on January 30, 2018, 11:44:35 PM
Great artist that I had not known about until seeing this thread.  Thanks for posting these great posters!
Title: Re: Hans-Otto Wendt
Post by: peckinpah on March 03, 2018, 08:59:02 AM
I had to buy another Wendt, couldn't resist the low price (in the 90s one couldn't find a Flynn - Wendt for less than $750.-). Great early one from 1951 ! 
(http://up.picr.de/31988378yj.jpg)
Title: Re: Hans-Otto Wendt
Post by: okiehawker on March 03, 2018, 10:56:01 AM
I had to buy another Wendt, couldn't resist the low price (in the 90s one couldn't find a Flynn - Wendt for less than $750.-). Great early one from 1951 ! 
(http://up.picr.de/31988378yj.jpg)
What amazing condition, Peckinpah! It looks like under Wendt's signature there is a "37".  So, it's original release, too?  Beautiful!  Okie
Title: Re: Hans-Otto Wendt
Post by: peckinpah on March 03, 2018, 01:09:42 PM
Well I restored it slightly... tiny paperloss and few damages due to pinholes...But still an A-/B+ :).
Most of Wendt's poster have the year he painted them printed along his signature.
This one states 1951 - which was the German first release (thanks to Adolf & Goebbels Warner Bros.
had not been not distributed in Germany for about ten years...)
Before restoration:
(http://up.picr.de/31991619kd.jpg)
Title: Re: Hans-Otto Wendt
Post by: peckinpah on September 25, 2018, 04:53:59 AM
"new" Wendt in the house... scarce double panel (119x84cm):
(http://up.picr.de/33909327ix.jpg)
Title: Re: Hans-Otto Wendt
Post by: okiehawker on September 25, 2018, 09:28:48 PM
The image of the guys fighting on your East of Eden poster is fantastic, Peckinpah!  Okie
Title: Re: Hans-Otto Wendt
Post by: erik1925 on September 26, 2018, 12:17:37 PM
Mike is a double panel the same size as an A0 poster?
Title: Re: Hans-Otto Wendt
Post by: peckinpah on September 27, 2018, 03:11:19 PM
Yes... I guess I picked up the term "double panel" in international forums.
Over here we never use that term (only "A1", A0"...)