Jaroslav Beza

  • pictorial map czech republic

    In December 1956, amid a European political climate fraught with tensions and upheavals for the Communist bloc, the state-run publishing house Orbis in Prague published a fascinating and monumental pictorial map, commissioned by the Ministry of Education and Culture of the Czechoslovak Republic. Designed by the artist Jaroslav Beza, the work represents not only a fine example of thematic and celebratory cartography from the post-World War II era, but a true visual ideological manifesto, aimed…

    • Author: Jaroslav Beza
    • Dimension: 63 x 108 cm
    • Place of publication: Praga
    • Year: 1956