Ivo Andrić - marquetry work Collage - Limited Edition of 3

IVO ANDRIĆ THROUGH THE EYES OF ZUKO DŽUMHUR This time, in the marquetry work of extreme minimalism, a tribute to two incredibly special and gifted people, people who marked a time for all time, a country that has long since disappeared. People born from the beautiful navel of that vanished land, from Bosnia. Homage to the writer and Nobel laureate, noble diplomat, Ivo Andrić and the writer and travel writer, painter, Zuko Džumhur. The Nobel Prize in Literature 1961 Ivo Andric was born in the village of Dolac, near Travnik, in 1892. After spending his youth in his native Bosnia, which was at the time part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, he studied philosophy at the Universities of Zagreb, Vienna, and Cracow. His studies were interrupted by the outbreak of the First World War, at the beginning of which he was jailed for his anti-Austrian activities. After receiving a doctorate in letters from the University of Graz in 1923, he entered the Yugoslav diplomatic service. The last diplomatic post he held was that of Yugoslav minister in Berlin. When Germany invaded Yugoslavia in 1941, Andric returned to Belgrade and lived there in seclusion throughout the Second World War. He has continued to reside in the Yugoslav capital. Andric takes his material from the life of Bosnia, but through this local material he presents universal human problems. During the Second World War, in the leisure imposed on him by the circumstances, Andric wrote his three large works, all of which were published in 1945: Na Drini cuprija (The Bridge on the Drina), Travnicka hronika (Bosnian Story), and Gospodjica (The Woman from Sarajevo). Veneers used - maple, walnut.