Type: Limited edition prints
Size: 48cm x 33cm
Tirage: 100 copies
A pencil drawing of Josef Thorak’s “Der Letzte Flug” (English : The Last Flight).
Created in 1940, depicting a dramatic, wartime scene featuring a German pilot, symbolizing aviation heroism, shown as a woman holding a dead soldier.
Showcased at the House of German Art (Haus der Deutschen Kunst).
This sculpture is remarkably similar to the Pennsylvania Railroad World War II Memorial sculpture, Angel of the Resurrection (1952), by Walker Kirtland Hancock (1901-1998) which stands in Philadelphia’s 30th Street Station. The plaster model for that sculpture is in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Hancock’s lifeless soldier is shirtless, with pants, and is being supported in the same way as Thorak’s, only by the Archangel Gabriel instead of a symbolic woman.
