1951 Belgisch Kongo
DESCRIPTION
This bright pictorial map by James Thiriar was created with the purpose of promoting travel to the Belgian Congo region, which, from 1908 to 1960, was a colony of Belgium. The image depicts indigenous peoples in their regional costumes, a wide variety of local flora and fauna. The border is formed by African face masks linked one to another.
Thiriar took some inspiration from the work of Lucian Boucher, who made posters for Air France. A native of Belgium, Thiriar was wounded in WWI and thereafter did drawings of soldiers at the front which were published in a number of periodicals. He started travelling to the Belgian Congo in 1932 to complete a series of illustrations of the area, and continued working on various such projects there for another twenty years.
CONDITION
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