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