Eduard Edler (1887-1969) ship portrait Blohm and Voss shipping company full ship Susanna 1913 near Cape Horn around 1905

Oil painting by the Hamburg Maine painter Eduard Edler 1887-1969. Excellent representation of a 3-masted cargo sailor "Susanna" from the shipping company Blom and Voss in choppy seas. Sailors in the yards raising the sails to switch to storm sailing. In 1905, the Susanna sailed a full 99 days in a zigzag voyage around Cape Horn and thus achieved the record of the longest voyage around the South American coast until it finally reached its destination in Chile after a 189-day journey from England. The crew had to temporarily use snow water to drink and was In the end he was still affected by scurvy, but managed to reach the port in Chile mostly alive. E. also painted many ships from the Flying P-Liner series of the then Hamburg, later Rostock shipping company Ferdinand Laeisz. Edler worked as a ship portrait painter for several shipping companies. Oil on canvas. Dimensions: 70.5 x 98.5cm. Signed and dated lower right "on the wind" Ed Edler Hbg 13, work is in good condition, provenance: private collection Hamburg.

Susanna: Launched in 1892 by Blohm and Voss, Hamburg
L W D 80.77 12.80 6.20 m
BRT 1989, tdw 3080.