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Lot n° 16

Assmann, Jan.

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The Sun Hymn of Akhenaten. Ffm., Alpha Presse, 1991. imp. fol. 9 ll. Text on machine-made paper, loose in silk-screened cover, and 8 loose fol. and 3 double-page color lithographs and 2 double-page collages by Wol Müller on laid silk, and 2 original photographs, loose in chemise of straw paper with serigraph. Seal reprod., the seal repeated on orig. folder, serigraph. Motif on front inside cover. An artistic work on sun worship requires large format from the point of view of the planet earth: the original graph. Double sheets 65:96 cm. For the artistic design they make use of a text by the German Egyptologist Jan Assmann (b. 1938) and a handwriting of Albert Einstein. The 8 loose sheets repeat the hymn to the sun in a poem by Ralph Günther Mohnnau. The two col. No. 1 of 5 (total 35) Roman num. Ex. of the preferred edition E. A.; printer's note signed by Wol Müller u. R. G. Mohnnau.