Wolfgang Stoerchle
Wolfgang Stoerchle (1944, Neustadt,[which?] 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] During this time he performed in California with fellow artists Miles Varner and Daniel Lentz in a group called California Time Machine.[3]
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.[4]
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