Tshibumba Kanda Matulu

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Tshibumba Kanda Matulu (* 1947 in Lubumbashi , Democratic Republic of the Congo ; lost 1981 in Zaire ) was a Congolese painter .

life and work

Tshibumba Kanda Matulu worked as a painter in Lumbumbashi for many years, selling small figurative paintings to local customers. The anthropologist Johannes Fabian (* 1937), who lives in Lubumbashi, supported Kanda Matulu so that he was able to use his knowledge of the history of his country and his narrative talent for the series "101 Works" (acrylic on canvas).

Tshibumba Kanda Matulu shows the tumultuous history of the Democratic Republic of the Congo chronologically and in detail in a relatively simple, almost cartoon-like style, often with added explanatory text. In 2000 the Tropical Museum in Amsterdam dedicated an exhibition to Kanda Matulu, and in 2017 the series “101 Works” was shown at documenta 14 .

literature

  • Remembering the Present: Painting and Popular History in Zaire , by Johannes Fabian (Author), Tshibumba Kanda Matulu (Illustrator), University of California Press, 1996, (English), ISBN 978-0-52020-3-761
  • The Dramatic History of the Congo as Painted by Tshibumba Kanda Matulu , by Paul Faber, KIT Publishers (June 28, 2005), (English), ISBN 978-9-06832-1-913

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Smithsonian Libraries Tshibumba Kanda Matulu retrieved (English) on 16 June 2019
  2. ↑ Cafe Babel Painting Congolese history: Tshibumba Kanda Matulu , accessed on June 16, 2019. (English)
  3. ↑ Power of culture Congo in Cartoons in the Tropenmuseum , accessed on June 16, 2019.
  4. ↑ documenta 14, daybook Tshibumba Kanda Matulu , accessed on June 16, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Kanda Matulu, Tshibumba
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Congolese painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Lubumbashi
DATE OF DEATH after 1981