Charles Dellschau's Paintings Predicting Trump

[Giddierone]

Perhaps 'Trump Prophesy' requires it's own thread, because even before the assasination attempt there have been other claims of the preordained nature of his place in American political life / culture.

One example would be the works of Charles Dellschau (1830-1923) - a mysterious artist whose works, made between 1908-1921, were discovered in the 1960s. (He's also believed to have been on the Confederate side during the civil war). His works are thought to depict flying machines of impossible design - some resemble "flying saucers" or "tic-tacs".

One painting appears to show a gaudy golden "Trump Train" complete with the number 45 (he was the 45th President) and a golden haired driver (not dissimilar to the image of Trump in the cab of a truck that was widely mocked a few years ago). Another simply includes the word Trump and the number 45 and a Tic-Tac shaped airship.

Obviously, all kinds of readings can be derived from these images.

 

[Mendel]

Perhahps 'Trump Prophesy' requires it's own thread, because even before the assasination attempt there have been other claims of the preordained nature of his place in American political life / culture.

One example would be the works of Charles Dellschau (1830-1923) - a mysterious artist whose works, made between 1908-1921, were discovered in the 1960s. (He's also believed to have been on the Confederate side during the civil war). His works are thought to depict flying machines of impossible design - some resemble "flying saucers" or "tic-tacs".

One painting appears to show a gaudy golden "Trump Train" complete with the number 45 (he was the 45th President) and a golden haired driver (not dissimilar to the image of Trump in the cab of a truck that was widely mocked a few years ago). Another simply includes the word Trump and the number 45 and a Tic-Tac shaped airship.

Obviously, all kinds of readings can be derived from these images.
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The number is 4599, and the moniker in the corner reads CAAD and not MAGA.

Article:

There are as many as 100 designs for airships with names like the Aero Mary, the Aero Trump and even an "Aero Jourdan".

Source: https://retrainyourbraintohappiness.blogspot.com/2014/02/charles-dellschau-secrets-of.html

Quite possible there's also an Aero Carter among them.

 

[Giddierone]

Quite possible there's also an Aero Carter among them.

No, but there's an obviously coded reference to Nixon...

If you look closely you can just make him out in the doorway...

Here's the other Trump image. It appears the use of Gold was just Dellschau's thing during that series as it runs throughout several pages of his illustrations.

 

[Ann K]

The number is 4599, and the moniker in the corner reads CAAD and not MAGA.

In @Giddierone 's post #11, photo number 3, the number is 4589. In the third figure of his post #14 is the number 4586. Are these merely the result of an artist who numbered his sketches consecutively?

 

[Giddierone]

Are these merely the result of an artist who numbered his sketches consecutively?

Yes, I think each plate was numbered sequentially.

For thirteen years (1908–1921) Dellshau worked on these Plates, binding them with shoestring into large book-like objects. Twelve of these "books" survived, but it seems, judging from the careful dating and numeration of each page, and large gaps in the numeration, that there were perhaps ten others of the same size and type whose whereabouts are unknown. The twelve books contained in all about two thousand pages produced at the rate of about one every two days.

Source: Charles A. A. Dellschau (2013). ISBN 978-1-935202-90-5

 

[FatPhil]

Yes, I think each plate was numbered sequentially.

Then how can a plate contain 3 different numbers?

Given the style of CAAD's artworks, one could suggest that the numbers are just the colours he was tasting whilst he was painting them.

 

[Giddierone]

Then how can a plate contain 3 different numbers?

Given the style of CAAD's artworks, one could suggest that the numbers are just the colours he was tasting whilst he was painting them.

Because they can?
As far as your suggestion goes you'd have to take that up with the people who have studied his work in detail. Here they offer their best theory about the numbering of the known works. [Book referenced in #5]. It seems reasonable to agree with their assesment, no?

The 1908–1921 Books of Drawings

Aside from the memoirs, the only other works by Dellschau known to exist are the twelve hand-boundbooks of double-sided drawings that date between 1908 and 1921. For the most part they are vivid,colorful renderings of the airships and bear comparatively scant inscriptional detail; some works incor-porate press clippings and some don't include Aeros at all. Each drawing, which he sometimes labeled "Plate," is meticulously dated and sequentially numbered, beginning with 1601 and ending with 5235*. Sometimes he included the date on which a particular airship design was proposed to the Sonora AeroClub in the 1850s, as well as the name of the proposer. Characters introduced in the memoirs recur inthese later works. Because of the gap of eight years after the last pages of Erinnerungen, and because of the high number of the first known Plate, it is possible that Dellschau created approximately 1,600 drawings prior to 1908, but their whereabouts are unknown. Other gaps in the sequence appear in 1910,1913, and 1917.

*Yes, some plates appear to have numbers higher than 5235.

As is characteristic of many self-taught artists, Dellschau did not operate in intermittent spurts but sustained a disciplined and regular output, numbering what he calls his Plates consecutively and signing and dating them with a keen sense of purpose. For long periods he was producing at the rate of a drawing every day or two.

 

[Mendel]

*Yes, some plates appear to have numbers higher than 5235.

I suspect Dellschau's digits "1" and "7" look very similar.

 

[FatPhil]

I suspect Dellschau's digits "1" and "7" look very similar.

Sure, I think all leading '7's are '1's. I also wonder if he's dyslexic, as I'm sure I saw some freaky misspellings of quite simple words.

 

[Giddierone]

I suspect Dellschau's digits "1" and "7" look very similar.

Yeap, they have that plate above as 1607 in that book mentioned above.