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Charles August Albert Dellschau (4 June 1830 Prussia – 20 April 1923 Texas) was an American artist of Prussian birth. He is one of America's earliest known outsider artists.〔(https://books.google.ca/books?id=BDvuAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA166&dq=Charles+Dellschau&hl=en&sa=X&ei=48prVcaVKNKXyAT22IDgBA&ved=0CEIQ6AEwBjgU#v=onepage&q=Charles%20Dellschau&f=false )〕 ==Life== Dellschau immigrated from Brandenburg, Prussia to Texas in 1853.〔(http://www.anomalistbooks.com/book.cfm?id=50 )〕 In 1861 he married Antonia Hilt in Richmond, Texas. Dellschau's earliest known work is a diary dated 1899, and the latest is an 80-page book dated 1921-1922, giving his career as an artist a 21-year span. His work was in large part a record of the activities of the Sonora Aero Club, of which he was a purported member.〔(https://books.google.ca/books?id=9tKGhO_BFtAC&pg=PT46&dq=Charles+Dellschau&hl=en&sa=X&ei=78lrVe69G4yhyATej4PICg&ved=0CDAQ6AEwAjgK#v=onepage&q=Charles%20Dellschau&f=false )〕 Dellschau's writings describe the club as a secret group of flight enthusiasts who met at Sonora, California in the mid-19th century. One of the members had discovered the formula for an anti-gravity fuel he called "NB Gas." Their mission was to design and build the first navigable aircraft using the NB Gas for lift and propulsion. Dellschau called these flying machines Aeros. Dellschau does not claim to be a pilot of any of the airships; he identifies himself only as a draftsman for the Sonora Aero Club. His collages incorporate newspaper clippings (called "press blooms") of then-current news articles about aeronautical advances and disasters.〔(The Secrets of Dellschau: The Sonora Aero Club & The Airships of the 1800s )〕 Despite exhaustive research, including searches of census records, voting rosters, and death records, nothing has been found to substantiate the existence of this group except for a few gravestones in the Columbia Cemetery where several of the surnames are found. It is speculated that, like Henry Darger's "Realms of the Unreal", the Sonora Aero Club is a fiction by Dellschau.〔(http://rawvision.com/articles/aeronautical-notebooks-charles-dellschau )〕 However, according to UFO writer Pete Navarro, a coded story is hidden throughout the drawings, which he interprets to mean that the Sonora Aero Club was a branch of a larger secret society known only as NYMZA. Dellschau is buried in the Washington cemetery in Houston.〔(https://books.google.ca/books?id=ZN3lAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA35&dq=Charles+Dellschau&hl=en&sa=X&ei=48prVcaVKNKXyAT22IDgBA&ved=0CDIQ6AEwAzgU#v=onepage&q=Charles%20Dellschau&f=false )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Charles Dellschau」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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