The Flight of Rudolf Hess (Signed) (Original)

Artist: Angus McBride
Medium: Pen & Ink Wash on Board
Size: 15" x 20" (381mm x 508mm)
Date: 1967
Signature: Signed by artist bottom left
Code: McBrideHess

This is the Signed unique original Pen & Ink Wash by Angus McBride.

This is the original artwork for illustration on p11 of Look and Learn issue no 270 (18 March 1967). Walter Richard Rudolf Hess (April 26, 1894 – August 17, 1987) was a prominent figure in Nazi Germany, acting as Adolf Hitler's deputy in the Nazi Party.

On the eve of war with the Soviet Union (1941), he flew to Scotland in an attempt to negotiate peace, but was arrested. He was tried at Nuremberg and sentenced to life internment at Spandau Prison, where he died in 1987.

• Artist Biography
  Angus McBride (1931 - 2007; UK & South Africa)
  Angus McBride is one of the world's most respected historical and fantasy illustrators, and contributed to numerous books, magazines and articles, including the classic Look & Learn, JRR Tolkein's Lord of the Rings, and more than 70 Osprey titles in the past three decades. Born in 1931 of Highland parents, but orphaned as a child, he was educated at Canterbury Cathedral Choir School. He worked in advertising agencies from 1947, and after National Service, emigrated to South Africa where he lived for several years, before relocating to Ireland before his sad demise in 2007.