Viking Eggeling

Viking Eggeling
Viking Eggeling by Amedeo Modigliani, 1918
Born(1880-10-21)21 October 1880
Lund, Sweden
Died19 May 1925(1925-05-19) (aged 44)
Berlin, Germany
Occupation(s)Artist, filmmaker
Notable workDiagonal-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. His 1924 film Diagonal-Symphonie is one of the seminal abstract films in the history of experimental cinema.

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