Wolfgang Stoerchle

Wolfgang Stoerchle (1944, Neustadt, Germany - 1976 Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA) was a conceptual artist known for influential performance and video works made in Southern California in the 1970s.[1]

Early Life and Education

Stoerchle was born in Germany but moved with his family to Toronto, Canada as a teenager in 1959. In 1962, he spent ten months riding through the United States on horseback with his brother, Peter, arriving in Los Angeles and living there in 1963-64.[2] He went to college at the University of Oklahoma from 1964-68 and began graduate work at the University of California, Santa Barbara, earning an M.F.A. in 1968.[2]

Career

In 1970, he began teaching in the Post-Studio Art program at California Institute of the Arts, where his fellow instructors included Allan Kaprow and Nam June Paik.[2] His teaching assistant was Jack Goldstein.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Phillips, Glenn. California Video: Artists and Histories. Los Angeles: The Getty Research Institute. p. 214. ISBN 978-0-89236-922-5.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 ""PRELIMINARY INVENTORY OF THE WOLFGANG STOERCHLE PAPERS, 1952-2007, bulk 1968-1998"". Online Archive of California. Retrieved 30 October 2014.
  3. ↑ Hertz, Richard (2003). Jack Goldstein and the CalArts Mafia. Ojai, California: Minneola Press. p. 70.