Gino
Boccasile
was
born in Bari, Italy, in 1901. Trained as
an illustrator he moved to Milan in 1925 and worked at the Mauzan-Morzenti
Agency. Over the next few years he produced posters and illustrated
fashion magazines.
A supporter of Benito
Mussolini,
Boccasile produced propaganda material for the government. This included
several racist and anti-semitic posters.
After the Second
World War Boccasile set up his own agency in Milan. Gino
Boccasile died
in 1952.
Gino Boccasile, Italian poster
(1940)
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