Uwe Lütgen - Passagierschiff IMPERATOR der HAPAG, Hamburg
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Description
oil painting by Uwe Lütgen
Additional product information
- Item number
- 1005
- Painter
- Uwe Lütgen
- Biographical
- * 1944 in Hamburg
- Title
- Passagierschiff IMPERATOR der HAPAG, Hamburg, auslaufend vor St. Pauli um 1913 (passenger ship IMPERATOR of the HAPAG, Hamburg, outbound at St. Pauli around 1913)
- Year
- 2020
- Technique
- oil on canvas
- Width [cm]
- 80
- Height [cm]
- 60
- Width incl. frame [cm]
- 86
- Height incl. frame [cm]
- 66
- Frame
- handmade gold frame
- Special features
- The passenger ship IMPERATOR was built in 1913 as the biggest ship of the world at that time by the AG Vulcan Hamburg for the HAPAG, Hamburg. She was 276 meters long, 29.4 meters wide, the draught was 11 meters, she measured 57,117 GRT and the construction costs amounted to 40 million Marks. The ship was powered by steam turbines with 62,000 HP and had a crew of 1,200 people, 350 of them were firemen. In 1946 the ship was broken up in Scotland. Signed.