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    Viking Eggeling

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    Viking Eggeling (21 October 1880, Lund – 19 May 1925,


    Berlin) was a Swedish avant-garde artist and filmmaker Viking Eggeling
    connected to dadaism, Constructivism and abstract art and Born 21 October 1880
    was one of the pioneers in absolute film and visual music.[1] Lund, Sweden
    His 1924 film Diagonal-Symphonie is one of the seminal Died 19 May 1925 (aged 44)
    abstract films in the history of experimental cinema.
    Berlin, Germany
    Nationality Swedish

    Contents Occupation Artist, filmmaker


    Notable work Diagonal-Symphonie
    1 Biography
    1.1 Early career
    1.2 Zurich & Dada
    1.3 Berlin
    2 References
    3 External links

    Biography
    Early career Four frames from "Diagonal-
    Symphonie"
    At the age of sixteen, the orphaned Eggeling moved to Germany to
    pursue an artistic career. He studied art history in Milan from 1901 to
    1907, supporting himself with work as a bookkeeper. From 1907 to 1911, he taught Art at the Hochalpines
    Lyceum in Zuoz/Institut Engiadina (today Lyceum Alpinum Zuoz) in Switzerland. He lived in Paris from 1911
    to 1915, where he was acquainted with Amedeo Modigliani, Hans Arp, Léopold Survage and other artists of
    the time.[2] At this point his art was influenced by Cubism, but soon grew more abstract, and in the years 1915-
    1917, influenced more specifically by the Rythmes colorés of Survage, he started making sketches on scrolls, or
    "picture rolls" as he would call them, that he later made into his abstract films Horizontal-Vertikal Messe (now
    lost) and Diagonal-Symphonie.[3][4]

    Zurich & Dada

    In Zurich in 1918, he re-connected with Hans Arp and took part in


    several Dada activities, befriending Marcel Janco, Richard
    Huelsenbeck, Sophie Taeuber, and the other dadaists connected to the
    Cabaret Voltaire. In 1919 he also joined the group Das Neue Leben
    ("New Life"), that was based in Basel and featured Marcel Janco, Hans
    Arp, Sophie Taeuber, Augusto Giacometti, and others. The group
    supported an educational approach to modern art, coupled with socialist
    "Basse générale de la peinture.
    ideals and Constructivist aesthetics.[6] In its art manifesto, the group
    Extension" Lithography (1919)[5]
    declared its ideal of "rebuild[ing] the human community" in preparation
    for the end of capitalism.[7] In the same year Eggeling was co-founder
    of the similar group Artistes Radicaux ("Radical Artists"), a more political section of the Neue Leben group.[8]
    During this time, in 1918, Tristan Tzara introduced him to Hans Richter, with whom he would work intimately
    for a couple of years, and in 1919 the two of them left Switzerland for Germany. Richter later wrote that "The
    contrast between us, which was that between method and spontaneity, only served to strengthen our mutual
    attraction...for three years we marched side by side, although we fought on separate fronts."[9]

    Berlin

    In Germany his first stop was Berlin, where he met with Raoul
    Hausmann, Hannah Höch and other radical artists. He here also joined
    the Novembergruppe ("November Group"), a radical political group that
    featured many artists connected to Dada, Bauhaus and Constructivism.
    After moving to Klein-Kölzig with Richter, he continued his
    experiments with "picture rolls". These scrolls were sequences of
    painted images on long rolls of paper that investigate the transformation
    of geometrical forms and could be up to 15 meters in length. As they
    were to be "read" from left to right, this soon evolved into
    cinematographic experimentation on film stock. In 1920, Eggeling
    began producing his first film, Horizontal-Vertikal-Messe, based on a
    "picture roll" containing approximately 5000 images. In 1921, he ends "Basse générale de la peinture.
    his collaboration with Richter and postpones his work on Horizontal- Extension" Lithography (1919)[10]
    Vertikal-Messe. In 1923 he instead collaborates with Erna Niemeyer and
    works on Diagonal-Symphonie, a synthesis of image, rhythm,
    movement and music, created from series of black sheets of paper with cut-out geometrical shapes. This film
    was completed in 1924 and shown for the first time in November the same year. Its first public screening was in
    Berlin in May 1925, at the film program "Der absolute Film", arranged by the Novembergruppe. 16 days later,
    Eggeling died.

    References
    1. Louise O'Konor, Viking Eggeling, 1880–1925, Artist and Filmmaker: Life and W ork, translated by Catherine G.
    Sundström and Anne Libby, Stockholm, Almqvist and Wiksell, 1971.
    2. Timothy O. Benson et al.,Expressionist Utopias, Berkeley, University of California Press, 2001; pp. 198-9.
    3. Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe, European Culture in a Changing World: Between Nationalism and Globalism, Cambridge
    Scholars Press, 2004(https://books.google.com/books?id=9pCzyQ9yOrkC&pg=P A204&lpg=PA204&dq=survage,+%2
    2symphonies+en+couleur%22+%22Rythmes+colorés%22&source=bl&ots=lba4RuMarM& sig=cJHvCtlgdkmi_BP3BW
    PZhfP7ewg&hl=en#v=onepage&q=survage%2C%20%22symphonies%20en%20couleur%22%20%22R ythmes%20colo
    rés%22&f=false)
    4. Daniel Robbins, Grove Art Online, Oxford University Press, MoMA, 2009 (http://www.moma.org/collection/artist.php?
    artist_id=5735)
    5. Dada, Nr. 4/5 (15 May 1919): [p. 8].
    6. Sandqvist, p.95-97, 190, 264, 342-343; V an der Berg, p.139, 145-147. See also Cernat,Avangarda, p.130, 155, 160-161
    7. Sandqvist, p.96. See also Van der Berg, p.147
    8. Van der Berg, p.147-148. See also Cernat,Avangarda, p.160-161
    9. Hans Richter, Dada: Art and Anti-Art, translated by David Britt, London, Thames and Hudson, 1965.
    10. De Stijl, vol. 4, nr. 7 (July 1921): facing p. 112.

    External links
    Louise O'Konor, Viking Eggeling, 1880–1925, Artist and
    Wikimedia Commons has
    Filmmaker: Life and Work, translated by Catherine G. Sundström media related to Viking
    and Anne Libby, Stockholm, Almqvist and Wiksell, 1971 (pdf) Eggeling.
    Works by or about Viking Eggeling at Internet Archive
    Viking Eggeling on Internet Movie Database
    Watch "Diagonal Symphonie" online

    Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Viking_Eggeling&oldid=760886677"


    Categories: 1880 births 1925 deaths Swedish artists Swedish animators Dada Abstract animation
    Swedish experimental filmmakers

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