Viking Eggeling

Biography

Viking Eggeling 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. At the age of sixteen, the orphaned Eggeling moved to Germany to pursue an artistic career. He studied art history in Milan until 1907, supporting himself with work as a bookkeeper. He lived in Paris from 1911 …