Tom Küsters was born in Groesbeek in 1943. Although he died in this same town in 2008, he was deeply involved in the world outside the Netherlands throughout his active life.
In the 1970s he participated in the Vietnam movement in Nijmegen and produced a series of posters on the subject. The Vietnam War intrigued him. He built a model landscape of Dien Bien Phoe, where French colonialism in Indochina collapsed. Armed with ordnance survey maps that now pertain to the archive corresponding with the model, he examined the situation on site.
Küsters was also interested in the rise and murder of Lumumba. The work of art, featuring 120 portraits of people involved in this case, is part of the collection. Non-political work of Tom Küsters, who was also a skilled marathon runner, is now at the Valkhof Museum in Nijmegen. The IISH collection consists of the scale model and related documentation, screen prints and printed materials.
See also posters by Tom Küsters in the IISH collection. More information on Tom Kusters on the website: tom-kusters.nl.