Picture "Elly (Beinhorn) - against all odds" (2022)
Picture "Elly (Beinhorn) - against all odds" (2022)
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Acrylic, Chalk, Coloured Pencil | Canvas | Format 100 x 100 cm (H/W) | picture hang up | signed certificate of authenticity
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Picture "Elly (Beinhorn) - against all odds" (2022)
Elly Beinhorn - "one of the most daring women of the 20th century," according to the blurb of her autobiography "Alleinflug" - was born in Hanover in 1907. A lecture by ocean aviator Hermann Köhl in 1928 fascinated her so much that she applied for admission to the Sportfliegerschule in Berlin-Staaken and obtained her sport pilot's license in the spring of 1929 and her aerobatic license a short time later. In 1931, Elly Beinhorn took off on her first big ALLEIN flight to Africa, which took her over 7,000 km to what is now Guinea-Bissao. Just a few months later, the 24-year-old ventured on her next great flight, a circumnavigation of the globe. Elly Beinhorn has worked all these years for the recognition of women in aviation - a truly STRONG woman, who could not be missing in my picture series. The mixed media work consists of acrylic paint, graphite, oil pastels, tissue paper, plastic masses and paper, it has partly a textured surface.
