{"product_id":"16559-willi-baumeistergilgamesch","title":"Willi BaumeisterGilgamesch","description":"\u003cFONT style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff\" size=4 face=Arial\u003e\u003cSPAN lang=EN-US style=\"FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US\"\u003e\u003cFONT size=2\u003e\u003cFONT face=TheSans\u003e\u003cSPAN lang=EN-US style=\"FONT-FAMILY: TheSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial\"\u003e\n\u003cP class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"\u003e\u003cSPAN lang=EN-US style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: TheSans; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial\"\u003eIn Urach in the Swabian Alps, between May and August 1943 Willi Baumeister (1889–1955) produced sixty-four drawings and another one hundred and fifty or so variations on \u003cI\u003eGilgamesh\u003c\/I\u003e\u003cI style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal\"\u003e,\u003c\/I\u003e one of the oldest surviving epic poems in world literature, which includes the tale of a great flood and which can be dated to about 2,600 BC. For his illustrations on colored rag paper, Baumeister used charcoal, oil pastels, pencil, and frottage techniques. The drawings were acquired in 1980 by the Friends of the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart.\u003c?xml:namespace prefix = \"o\" \/\u003e\u003co:p\u003e\u003c\/o:p\u003e\u003c\/SPAN\u003e\u003c\/P\u003e\n\u003cP class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"\u003e\u003cSPAN lang=EN-US style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: TheSans; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial\"\u003eOf all the series of illustrations that Baumeister produced during his period of “inner emigration,” \u003cI style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal\"\u003eGilgamesch\u003c\/I\u003e is the largest and probably the artist’s most personal.\u003cSPAN style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: bold\"\u003e “My illustrations came close to the old reliefs on the gigantic walls, to cuneiforms and hieroglyphics, to symbolic signs, to rites and rituals that retain their mysteries like the distant and high god, whose name is never uttered but only paraphrased.”\u003co:p\u003e\u003c\/o:p\u003e\u003c\/SPAN\u003e\u003c\/SPAN\u003e\u003c\/P\u003e\n\u003cP class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"\u003e\u003cSPAN lang=EN-US style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: TheSans; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold\"\u003e\u003co:p\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c\/o:p\u003e\u003c\/SPAN\u003e\u003c\/P\u003e\n\u003cP class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"\u003e\u003cSPAN lang=EN-US style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: TheSans; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold\"\u003eExhibition schedule: Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, December 11, 2010–May 1, 2011\u003co:p\u003e\u003c\/o:p\u003e\u003c\/SPAN\u003e\u003c\/P\u003e\n\u003cP class=MsoBodyText style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: left; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\" align=left\u003e\u003c\/SPAN\u003e\u003c\/P\u003e\n\u003cP class=MsoBodyText style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: left; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\" align=left\u003e\u003c\/FONT\u003e\u003c\/FONT\u003e\u003c\/SPAN\u003e\u003c\/P\u003e\u003c\/FONT\u003e\n","brand":"Hatje Cantz Verlag","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45056219119880,"sku":"9783775727747","price":25.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8948\/8049\/files\/odoo_9783775727747_d2355d7e-93c4-40d3-8c26-814efcf5d7cb.jpg?v=1744147216","url":"https:\/\/www.hatjecantz.de\/en\/products\/16559-willi-baumeistergilgamesch","provider":"Hatje Cantz Verlag","version":"1.0","type":"link"}