While Schwarzkogler's peers have enjoyed longer, more prominent careers, Schwarzkogler's life is shrouded in mystery and obscurity, fueling rumors about his suicide, and creating a powerful discourse circulating around his lack of recorded history.
Schwarzkogler was the least outgoing of a group called the Viennese Actionists, whose orgiastic, bloody Happenings have become legendary.
Schwarzkogler's photographs from the 1960s, of the human body bandaged, gagged and seemingly bleeding, are easily assimilated into this "subcultural" lineage, although I think his intentions are much different.
RudolfSchwarzkogler was a rather marginal figure of Wiener Aktionismus.
Schwarzkogler used this technique as an artistic form of expression, preferring it, in fact, to Actions attended by an audience.
While Schwarzkogler, a marginal figure of Wiener Aktionismus, removed the performative element from his work by means of photographic reproductions, some of Gironcoli's installations of that time appeared like the three-dimensional implementations of a comparable artistic approach.
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