Heinz Krebs
Heinz Krebs was raised and lives in Southern Germany where he runs his commercial graphic arts studio during the day and spends most of his free time either flying or painting.
He is a passionate aviator, a commercial pilot, and flying instructor with nearly 10,000 hours of flying time and almost 20.000 landings to his credit. He has flown more than 50 different types of aircraft ranging from 35 different types of gliders to DC-2s and jet fighters.
But all his life he has had one other love besides his flying: Fine Arts: Especially painting in oils. What makes his aviation art so unique is that, being able to draw on his life-long experience of both subjects, Heinz is able to convey in his unique style, true portraits of flight full of romance, action, and drama.
Heinz Krebs Signed and Numbered Limited Edition Print "Through the Pass"
After combat with Luftwaffe fighters over southern Germany, a pair of 82nd FG P-38s return to their bases south of the Alps using the mountain passes for a low level route into Italy.
In the winter of 1944/45 the 15th U.S. Air Force fought its way further north into Germany from its bases in Italy over the Alps, a massive mountain range which separates the northern and the southern parts of Europe like a giant barrier, thus making an impressive natural wall of defense.
It was across these mountains that the pilots of the 82nd Fighter Group flew on a day-to-day basis in a succcessful effort to establish air superiority over the southern parts of the Reich, thus preparing the way for the Allied ground forces. These missions were extremely dangerous due to the alpine terrain. Often, when bad weather blocked the escape routes back to Italy, or particularly when the planes had been exposed to hostile fire resulting in a further reduction of the fighters´ performance at altitude, the only way for the pilot to survive was to bail out over enemy territory. Therefore it was considered crucial for the fighter pilots to familiarize themselves as best as they could with the geographical features of this mountain range in order to find their way back to base through the mountain passes should that situation arise.
27" by 19" Limited Edition, edition size 950, signed by the artist - $125
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