Liozu, Jacques

Jacques Liozu (1910–1974) was a French painter & illustrator celebrated for his lively pictorial maps and instructional art. His father was a painter and the curator of the Toulouse-Lautrec Museum in Albi. Liozu worked with prominent French publishers such as Odé, Chantal de Toulouse, and Gründ, producing illustrated maps of many countries and regions. His playful and detailed - although sometimes stereotyped - illustrations of local customs, animals, and people made his maps both visually engaging and educational. He contributed pictorial maps to the Odé travel guides for Japan, Benelux, Scandinavia, Spain, France the USA, and the USSR. His whimsical educational posters were used in French schools during the 1950s and 60s. He produced a series of maps of the continents in 1951, some of which were later printed on the back of in-flight menus for Pan American. His work is increasingly collectible.