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"Twilight of the Jagdflieger"
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S Anderson
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Registered: March 2004
Location: California
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Like Wagner’s musical masterpiece Gotterdammerung (“Twilight of the Gods”), the final months of air combat would attain heroic proportions for German pilots. Knowing that an overall victory was unattainable, the pilots of the “Blue Max” pushed themselves beyond the impossible.
Replacement pilots were as good as useless, so veteran pilots Lothar von Richthofen, Erich Lownhardt, and Ernst Udet, leaders of Jastas 11, 10, and 4, took to hunting together.
On the evening of August 8, 1918, von Richthofen, Lownehardt, and Udet open the ball with a flight of RAF SE5s of No. 84 Squadron. By the end of the patrol the deadly trio would bag nine enemy planes.
24x48 oil in canvas
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| · Date: Tue - 24 June 2008 · Views: 2801 · Filesize: 32.6kb, 574.6kb · Dimensions: 1750 x 750 ·
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Rating:  10.00
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Keywords: L. von Richthofen, Lowenhardt, Udet
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Russell Smith
Forum Ace
Registered: October 2003
Location: Charlotte, NC
Posts: 1,032
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Sun - 29 June 2008 8:37am
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Rating: 10.00
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Steve - having seen the original in person, I'll say that this is a great painting. Great use of color and shape gives it a really good underlying abstract quality. Super treatment on the lozenge, too!
Russ
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S Anderson
Observer
Registered: March 2004
Location: California
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Ricardo Reis
Two-seater Pilot
Registered: June 2008
Location: Lisboa
Posts: 123
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I can hear it. I think this is the best thing I can say about it. I can hear it.
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Thomas Trauner
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Registered: May 2007
Location: Nuernberg, Germany
Posts: 62
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Wed - 9 July 2008 11:14pm
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Rating: 10.00
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Great painting. The Fokkers look powerful and to the knowing eye deadly.
Just a little remark. The correct term is "Jagdflieger", No "s" in plural. The painting is so good, the title should match it.
Sorry for sounding like a teacher.
Thomas
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Gregvan
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Registered: August 2001
Location: St. Charles, Iowa
Posts: 2,124
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Mon - 4 August 2008 6:11pm
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Rating: 10.00
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Wow!! This is awesome, Steve, simply amazing. Exactly as I have pictured it in my head. Your title is especially appropriate in light of what happened to the veteran pilots within a few days of your painting. On 10 August, of course, Löwenhardt was killed (Berthold was WIA and Billik was POW the same day), and on 13 August Lothar was WIA and out of the war.
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S Anderson
Observer
Registered: March 2004
Location: California
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Tue - 12 August 2008 1:00pm
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Thanks Greg.
Thanks Thomas Trauner for the correction.
Cheers,
Steve Anderson
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Frederic Mason
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Registered: May 2005
Location: northern illinois
Posts: 74
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Sat - 6 September 2008 10:30am
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Rating: 10.00
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Totally Beautiful!
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Cruz Verras
Observer
Registered: July 2008
Location: Athens Greece
Posts: 17
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Sat - 27 September 2008 6:45am
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Rating: 10.00
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This painting is top five in the whole gallery.Magnificent.
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