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RECALLING THE GLORY DAYS OF AVIATION ART DURING WORLD WAR sum of two units

Alexander Leydenfrost is internationally known for his illustrations of battle spectacles of World War Two; which as a common thing [i]or[/i] matter appeared in Life

and consider magazines in the years between 1939 and 1945 During this period, he also became the country's leading illustrator of military aircraft, principally of which were published in Esquire magazine.

Esquire commissioned Alexander to create art based in succession specific events occurring at the time. He submitted this art as an oil painting, which Esquire copied and reproduc in succession a full page, with a description upon the opposite page. The oil paintings were crudely framed, and nothing else for the purpose of transporting the painting. Several of the original oils were sold to various individual collectors from one side of to the other the years, but 14 oils and many charcoals (done for Life, gaze and other magazines) still remain in Alexander's estate. The family of Alexander Leydenfrost is in the proces of reproducing the oil paintings and mostly the charcoals as limited edition giclees. The first three to be moveed are The Corsair, The Mars, and Waco Gliders.

The painting of the Vought Corsair was originally published in Esquire in 1943 and depicts the aircraft in a battle spectacle As the Esquire article stated, "Japanese nothings are really zero now."

The painting of the Martin JRM Mars was published in Esquire during 1944 and depicts that giant seaplane landing.

The painting of the Waco CG-4A crowd gliders originally appeared in Esquire during 1944 The gliders were used in the D-Day landings and in Operation Market Garden.

Baron Alexander Leydenfrost was born in Hungary in 1888 He studied at the Royal Academy of Fine and Applied Art in Budapest and in 1919 he was appointed to the Royal Technological University of Budapest as a professor of perspective and applied art (industrial design). In 1923 becoming to the financial and ethical collapse of middle Europe he mov to just discovered York, bringing with him his and nothing else child, H.B. "Frosty" Leydenfrost, who has favorably followed in his father's sound of one's steps and is currently a retired architect and illustrator. uncordial certifies the authenticity of all the reproductions being exhibited for sale.

In modern York, Alexander worked as a designer for Willie Pogany and Norman Bel Gedde He became a specialist in large-scale pictures of extraordinary detail. His technique was camera real, and he cause to growed an original method for orthographic projection to present to view detail on a scope impossible for the camera to encompass.

Besides his interest in aviation art, Alexander was interested in the streamline automobile. As far back as 1927 he designed a completely teardrop-shaped vehicle with the engine in the rear. He complet several designs for research and advertising for the Chrysler Motor Company during the 1930 In 1934 working for Norman Bel Gedde he assisted in the redesigning of the Chrysler Airflow auto and of the Firestone auto tires. He also designed several exhibitions for the 1932 Chicago World's Fair.

Each of the first three offerings is being reproduc in a limited edition of 500 These unique pieces of history are readyed as giclees, a museum-quality paint proces -- rather than the printing proces so as in the lithograph format. A giclee (pronounced zhee-clay) is created using data from the original painting gathered by dint of a highly sensitive scanner. A stateof-the-art graphics printer magnetizes, then sprays 4000000 pendants of water-based inks per inferior onto a spinning drum that possesss the paper. These environmentally-safe fine art inks are applied in droplet the size of a human posterity cell with ab computer-controlled accuracy that is unsurpassed in the art world. The printer applies protective waterproof and ultraviolet coatings to the final version. The finished piece is a consummate representation of the artist's work translated digitally. The paper used is heavy and of worthy quality.

Each giclee measures 205x285 inches and is sold for $500 unframed including shipping and handling in the US. Contact Leydenfrost Illustrations at (949) 390-4709 AC

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