Viking eggeling biography

Viking Eggeling by Amedeo Modigliani , Berlin , Germany. Biography [ edit ]. Early career [ edit ]. Berlin [ edit ]. Gallery [ edit ]. Diagonal-Symphonie Extension" Lithography [ 10 ]. References [ edit ]. For the next three years we were inseparable. In these years, we made our first development of a form theme — the growing and declining of single forms and a form group on long paper scrolls.

And from scrolls we finally got to the problem of film. I called my first ventures in film, Rhythms. Eggeling died at the Steglitz Hospital in Berlin on May 19, Fritz Schupp, his nephew, his last girl friend the dancer, Inge, and I were at his death bed. At his funeral were present twenty to thirty artists who had known and respected Eggeling during his lifetime and three of his girl friends.

I spoke at his grave and, after me, Raoul Hausmann. His memory is still alive today among us. Hans Richter by Hans Richter, edited by Cleve Gray in page 38, illustrated in a similar version. Day of issue: 9 September, Value: 3. Viking Eggeling — was born in Lund, but after emigrating from Sweden in he was active in Italy, France, Switzerland and Germany he died in Berlin.

Places of residence Berlin, Germany Places of residence Zurich, Switzerland Teacher of drawing and gymnastics - Places of residence , Germany works as a bookseller Born Lund, Sweden He had eleven siblings, the oldest born in His father immigrated to Sweden from Nieder-Sachsen, Germany, around , and opened a music shop [Eggelings musikhandel] in Lund and worked as a music teacher.

Viking was orphaned in and two years later in May he moved to Germany, where he began commercial training at Flensburg. He shortly worked as a bookkeeper at a watch-factory at Le Locle in Switzerland c , then moved to Milan c , where he was taking night classes at the Brera Academy and took up studying art history, determined to become an artist. In he worked as a drawing-master at the Lyceum Alpinum at Zuoz in Switzerland, briefly visiting Berlin in Over the whole decade he had supported himself with work as a bookkeeper.

Viking eggeling biography

From c to c he lived in Paris, probably after separating from his wife. Modigliani painted his portrait in At this point his art was influenced by Cubism, but soon grew more abstract. He never dated and only rarely signed his works. During this time, he started working on his 'universal language', a theory of harmony for painting which was to open up a way for meaningful communication between viewer and artist.

According to Claire Goll, the two also discussed the foundations of abstract film which Goll still called Kinomalerei [cinema-painting]. There he re-connected with Jean Arp and took part in several Dada activities, befriending Marcel Janco , Richard Huelsenbeck , Sophie Taeuber , and the other dadaists connected to the Cabaret Voltaire.

The group supported an educational approach to modern art, coupled with socialist ideals and Constructivist aesthetics. In its art manifesto, the group declared its ideal of "rebuild[ing] the human community" in preparation for the end of capitalism. Eggeling's major concern during this period was to find a medium for the metaphysical problems which obsessed him, to articulate his forms of "universelle Sprache" [universal language] in order that they should serve as 'communication signs'.

He was to give expression to these speculations in many hundreds of studies, until he finally gave shape to his form language in the large scroll drawings, which in their turn were to serve as models score for his later film experiments. Eggeling executed these scrolls during his years in Switzerland and showed them to his colleagues Arp, Tzara, Janco, and Richter.

Viking Eggeling , Drawing by Marcel Janco. Here he also joined the Novembergruppe [November Group], a radical political group that featured many artists connected to Dada, Bauhaus and Constructivism.