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Charles Dellschau
Go here and read a little bit about Charles Dellschau.
His notebooks (like those above) were discovered in 1969 and have been exhibited as rather extraordinary folk art and also as a curious historical expression of the aspiration for human flight. Many of the thousands of illustrations involve imaginary aircraft and the rather heroic figures who are said to design and fly them.
Dellschau was born 1853 in Germany, and immigrated to the United States in 1878. He created most of these notebooks between 1899 and 1920. The linked article includes some atrociously speculative nonsense about Dellschau’s intent, but the images speak for him.
Charles Dellschau. Art Brut. Watercolor.
(vía forma es vacío, vacío es forma: Art Brut)
Charles Dellschau Drawings
Charles August Albert Dellschau was an American artist of Prussian birth. He is one of America's earliest known outsider artists. Twelve of Dellschau's scrapbooks surfaced in a junkyard in 1967, forty years after his death. From there they found their way into art museums. Then people began deciphering the coded writings he'd left with the pictures. And a strange story emerged. Dellschau had, it seems, belonged to a secret society that'd formed in the California gold-rush region around 1850 -- the Sonora Aero Club. One member was supposed to've known how to distill a green crystal called Supe from coal. Add water to Supe and you generate a gas that negates gravity. Of course, when that member of the Aero Club died, the recipe for making Supe died with him.But Dellschau's pictures kept pouring forth. Twelve notebooks survived, and Dellschau's numbering system suggests that twenty more have been lost. By now, UFO people have adopted Dellschau's pictures. Some think that mysterious sightings around Oakland, California, in the 1890s were actually airships built by the Sonora Aero Club and carried aloft by Supe.
read the amazing story here
Charles Dellschau
Found in a Junk Shop: Secrets of an Undiscovered Visionary Artist
Charles Dellschau - Men Who Did. ”Gianni” Caproni (1920)