Charles Dellschau is remembered as an "outsider artist", working primarily in watercolor and ink drawings and compulsive about finishing every day, at least one of his fantasy paintings, usually of theoretical aircraft. Prior to his retirement, Dellschau was a butcher in Richmond, Texas until 1887 and then a saddle maker in Houston until 1900 when he retired.

Dellschau was born in Brandenburg, Prussia and came to the United States in 1850 and settled in Galveston, Texas. He evidently served in the Civil War and settled in Richmond, Texas following the war. He worked as a butcher until 1887 when he moved to Houston to work as a saddle maker.

Dellshau died in Houston, Texas.

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