CIDNA Airline Poster

A poster by French artist Charles-Jean Hallo (1882-1969) for the French-Romanian air transport company CIDNA sometime during the late 1920s

The poster contains a limited color palette of Red blue black and yellow. A rounded window on a black rectangle contains a yellow airplane flying above a map of Europe in red. Across the map lies a forked yellow line showing thirteen city stops; the flight path. Underneath the window in the same red as the map 12 heraldic crests surround the company's name: CIDNA in all caps.

Charles-Jean Hallo also known as ALO was primarily known for his animal paintings and lithographic tourism posters done for Railways and airline companies throughout Europe. He studied under fine artists Charles Cottet and Jacques-Émile Blanche at the School of Fine Arts in Paris. Following his love of hunting and animals, in 1935 Hallo founded the Musée de la vénerie de Senlis (The Senlis Hunting Museum) Hallo was also quite patriotic, enlisting in the French military during both World War I and II.  After France's armistice with the Third Reich in June 1940, Hallo would continue fighting. He joined the Jade-Amicol Network, eventually leading to wartime imprisonment. After the war he was awarded with a Médaille de la Résistance française. Post-war he continued to make art. Throughout the 1950s and 60s Hallo's work was used for a series of scarves by French fashion house Hermès.

CIDNA (Compagnie internationale de navigation aérienne) was a French-Romanian air transport company. (1920-1933) Founded in 1920 under the name Compagnie franco-roumaine de navigation aérienne (CFRNA) Connecting from Paris to Bucharest (and further on to Istanbul.) CIDNA became the first Transcontinental airline open to passengers.  It would go on to be merged with Air France in 1933. Beyond this graphic being used as a poster it was also included as part of the cover design for the company's fall 1929 to spring 1930 timetable.