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CHARLES ALBERT AUGUST DELLSCHAU Exhibitions include -
"FLIGHT" University of St. Thomas, Houston, Texas, 1969 "Wind In My Hair" American Visionary Museum 1996 "Aeronautical Notebooks" Ricco Maresca Gallery 1998 "Plots and Inventions" 2000 Ramapo College New Jersey "Visonary Dreamers" University of Syracuse New York 2002 "The Secret Life of Charles Dellschau" 2004 San Antonio Museum, Menilo Museum Eye of the World: Miniature and Microcosm in the Art of the Self Taught Addison Gallery of American Art, PA 2002 "American Self Taught from the High Museum", High Museum Annex 2005 Dopes, Dupes, and Demagogues: Viewed by Outsiders Louise Ross Gallery 2004 "Create and Be Recgonized: Photography on the Edge". Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA) 2005 "INNER WORLDS OUTSIDE" AT THE WHITECHAPEL GALLERY LONDON 2005 "FLIGHTS OF IMAGINATION" WITTE MUSEUM, San Antonio 2008 "MESSAGES AND MAGIC: COLLAGE AND ASSEMBLAGE IN AMERICAN ART" John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI 2008
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Charles
A. A. Dellschau (1830-1923), a German-born Texas butcher devoted his retirement
to making watercolor collages of beautifully striped flying machines.
First seen in New York at last year's Outsider Art Fair, his images define
a fleet of craft that, at their most recognizable, suggest eccentric balloons
or dirigibles, or flying carriages, and sometimes include pilots and passengers.
Framed by further stripes, as well as words, names and numbers, the drawings
intimate a universe almost as elaborate as Rizzoli's in a style reminiscent
of Monty Python.
....what
is still fascinating about some of the best outsider art is the feeling
you have that fantasy has become so powerful as to eclipse what most people
take for reality. Charles A. A. Dellschau, a butcher in Texas, created
thousands of wonderfully fanciful pictures of Jules Verne-style flying
machines.