Viking Eggeling | |
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 Viking Eggeling by Amedeo Modigliani, 1918 | |
| Born | 21 October 1880 Lund, Sweden |
| Died | 19 May 1925 (aged 44) Berlin, Germany |
| 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.
- ^ Louise O'Konor, Viking Eggeling, 1880–1925, Artist and Filmmaker: Life and Work, translated by Catherine G. Sundström and Anne Libby, Stockholm, Almqvist and Wiksell, 1971.