The painting, which is made by the street artist FKDL, is located in northeastern Paris and is, according to the artist, intended to symbolize freedom and resistance.
Josephine Baker has always been, for me, an iconic figure from that era. Both wild and open-minded, but also deeply rooted in music, musicals and dance. She was an extraordinary person, an incredible woman, says FKDL to AP.
Baker was born in Missouri in 1906 and became a megastar in the 1930s, especially in France where she moved in 1925 to escape racism and segregation in the USA.
Besides her stage career, Baker also spied on the Nazis for the French resistance movement and marched together with Martin Luther King Jr in Washington. She died in Paris in 1975.
Baker was the first black woman to be elected to France's Panthéon. In the mausoleum, she now rests together with, among others, the philosopher Voltaire, the scientist Marie Curie and the author Victor Hugo.
