Poster for the 1929 elections, which criticizes cardinal Jozef Van Roey for demonizing the socialists in favor of the christian-democratic party.
Géo Dixel was an early-20th century Belgian illustrator and graphic artist, most notable for his socialist propaganda posters.
Life and career
Not much is known about Géo Dixel. During the 1920s and 1930s, he made election posters for the Belgian Worker's Party (BWP in Flemish, POB in Walloon). Some of these made use of sequentially illustrated narratives, mostly to contrast the miserable life of the common people with how much better they would be off if a socialist government stood up for their rights. These posters were lithographed both in Dutch and in French by the printer Vandezande. Despite Dixel's efforts, it would take until 1938 before Belgium received its first socialist Prime Minister, Paul-Henri Spaak.
Poster for the 1929 elections, explaining how the liberal banker and senator Maurice Despret and Prime Minister Henri Jaspar caused the Belgian franc to plummit, while the socialist politician Emile Vandervelde and Prime Minister Prosper Poullet stabilized the monetary unit.