Rudolf Schwarzkogler, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Rudolf Schwarzkogler

Austrian artist

Date of Birth: 13-Nov-1940

Place of Birth: Vienna, Austria

Date of Death: 20-Jun-1969

Profession: photographer, artist, choreographer, film director

Nationality: Austria

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About Rudolf Schwarzkogler

  • Rudolf Schwarzkogler (13 November 1940 – 20 June 1969) was an Austrian performance artist closely associated with the Viennese Actionism group that included artists Günter Brus, Otto Mühl, and Hermann Nitsch.
  • He is best known today for photographs depicting his series of closely controlled "Aktionen" featuring such iconography as a dead fish, a dead chicken, bare light bulbs, colored liquids, bound objects, and a man wrapped in gauze.
  • The enduring themes of Schwarzkogler's works involved experience of pain and mutilation, often in an incongruous clinical context, such as 3rd Aktion (1965) in which a patient's head swathed in bandages is being pierced by what appears to be a corkscrew, producing a bloodstain under the bandages.
  • They reflect a message of despair at the disappointments and hurtfulness of the world. Chris Burden once remarked that a 1970s Newsweek article, which had mentioned himself and Schwarzkogler, had misreported that Schwarzkogler had died by slicing off his penis during a performance.
  • A scene in Schwarzkogler's foto-performances had been starry-eyed misinterpreted.
  • The castration theme in some of them — for example, in Aktion 2 he posed with a sliced open fish covering his groin — have additionally fueled this myth.
  • Additionally, the protagonist of the Aktion in which the cutting of a penis was simulated was not Schwarzkogler himself, but his friend and model, the renowned photographer Hans Cibulka.
  • When Schwarzkogler died, the series of performances had long been concluded.
  • He was found beneath a window from which he had fallen, seemingly the victim of an accident.
  • His death generated speculations and further myths.

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