Ziguener Tarot
1980
Walter Wegmueller
Switzerland
Art Medium:
Watercolour without outlines.
Description:
Walter Wegmüller (born in 1937 in Bern) is a Swiss painter and musician. He is probably best known for the Krautrock album Tarot, which was released on the Cosmic Couriers label in 1973.Wegmüller himself comes from a gypsy background and was well acquainted with Sergius Golowin, the well-known representatives of the theory that the Tarot was brought to Europe by the Gypsies. Wegmueller's cards images, which are filled with gypsy folklore and a variety of occult symbols, were used to illustrate Sergius Golowin's 1975 book 'Die Welt des Tarot' (The World of Tarot). The cards were published by AG Mueller the same year under the title 'The Gypsy Tarot'. Later this larger sized version was issued.
