Alfons Schilling

Alfons Schilling ( born May 20, 1934 in Basel, † June 19, 2013 in Vienna) was a Swiss artist, an early proponent of action painting and a pioneer of the Vienna activism.

Life

Schilling leaves 1954, Switzerland and hires in Rotterdam on a Norwegian cargo ship. From 1956 he studied at the Academy of Applied Arts in Vienna. Early 60s, he is in close contact with Günter Brus and developed an extremely gestural, informal painting.

1962 draws Schilling to Paris. He developed his idea of the motion picture further by painting on rotating circular image area of about 2 m in diameter (or color filled up and throws ). Over time, it increases the rotational speed of the painting machine up to 160/min. The twelve-minute b / w 8mm movie " Cosmos Action Painting / Desperate Motion", which his brother Niklaus Schilling 1962 on the creation of two three pictures, one of the most exciting and at the same time the least known documents of Action Painting.

Early June, leaving Schilling in a personal crisis Paris and moved to New York in October. He talks to various works on water, participates in the organization of numerous events at the interface between art and science, turns a film documentary about the 1966, in the meantime, the legendary event " 9 Evenings: Theatre and Engineering ". He learns many important New York artists know.

1968 Schilling experimented with the possibilities of holography and Lenticular Screen lenticular image stereoscopy. In addition to his interest in the pictorial representation of a synthesis of space and movement, he developed portable " seeing machines " ( apparatus for visual manipulation of the room).

He taught at several U.S. universities and art colleges. In 1986 he returned to Vienna, where he held until 1990, a visiting professor at the University of Applied Arts. In addition, he devoted himself to experiments with light and worked with composers such as Beat Furrer ( lighting design for the opera The blind, Vienna, 1989) and Karlheinz Essl (Music protocol, Graz 1990) together.

Schilling died in June 2013 at the age of 79 years after a serious illness in Vienna.