STUKA by Robert Taylor

Today we take a closer look at this rare Robert Taylor print which is now at LOW INVENTORY...

2 September 2020

 STUKA

When dressed for war the Stuka was an awesome spectacle. Robert's outstanding piece depicts a formation of Ju87s bombed up and fitted with long range tanks heading out on a shipping strike over the Mediterranean in 1941.

 

Following its success in the Polish and French 'Blitzkrieg' campaigns, the Stuka was seen by the German High Command as the supreme new weapon to succeed long range artillery. With its banshee-like wailing siren the Stuka pilots would deliver destruction from the skies and create a devastating psychological effect upon all those below.

 

 

'Agreed, the Stuka was an extraordinary looking aeroplane, evil-looking perhaps, its cranked wings and spatted undercarriage giving it the appearance of some monstrous bird of prey, but the aircraft had an unmistakable and unique individualism that deserves some further evaluation.' 

An excerpt from Robert Taylor's Air Combat Paintings Volume II.

 

IN STOCK: 1 x ARTIST PROOF COPY

We're rarely able to offer this sought-after edition but now have this special Artist Proof in stock which has been personally signed by the artist and FOUR Luftwaffe Stuka pilots: 

 

  • Oberleutnant HELMUT FICKEL KC
  • Major FRANZ KIESLICH KC with Oak Leaves (pictured)
  • Oberst KURT KUHLMEY
  • Oberstleutnant HANS-KARL STEPP

FIND OUT MORE HERE!

 

 

You may also like this other Ju87 piece..

 

OPEN ASSAULT

Ju87 Stuka dive-bombers attack enemy vessels and port facilities in Dover Harbour during the Battle of Britain, July 1940.

 

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