Viking Eggeling
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Viking Eggeling (1880, Lund – 1925, Berlin) 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.
- Literature
- Louise O'Konor, Viktor Eggeling: 1880-1925: Artist and film-maker: Life and work, Stockholm: Stockholm University, 1971, 299 pp. Doctoral thesis. [1]
- Jimmy Pettersson, Viking Eggeling och Diagonalsymfonin: en dematerialisering av konstobjektet, Södertörn University College, 2011. Thesis. (in Swedish)
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