Alfons Schilling

* 1934, Switzerland

Alfons Schilling (1934−2013)
Born in Basel in 1934, from 1956 enrolled at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, master class with Eduard Bäumer. Left the university in 1959. Travelled to Mallorca with Günter Brus in 1960; abandoned academic study and experimented with action painting. First exhibitions in 1961 with Brus at Galerie Junge Generation, Vienna. Five month visit to Paris in 1962, intensification of involvement with rotating pictures, painting on motor-driven rotating circular surfaces.

Moved to New York in autumn 1962. Intensive study of holography and stereoscopy, work with lenticular photography. Begining of friendship and...