A collection of 29 pieces recorded 1980-84 by Dominik Steiger. Outsider art home-recordings using voice, acoustic guitar, accordion and bontempi organ.
Edition of 370 copies.
Dominik Steiger, born 1940 in Vienna. University drop out. Joins the French foreign legion 1959 but was dismissed a year later for psychiatric reasons. 1961 first poems and beginning of a bohemian life. 1961-64 vagabondage through Europe and Asia. Published several books of poetry and prose since 1961. First drawings published 1972 by
Günter Brus in his periodical “Schastrommel”. Exhibitions of graphic works since 1975 in galleries throughout Europe. Ad hoc musician. First LP of songs “Wiener Lieder und Gemischte Waisen” published 1979 in
Dieter Roth's Verlag. He cooperated repeatedly with more or less renowned artists in concerts graphic team works, literary events etc. In 2004 he received the honorary literature prize of the Republic of Austria and in 2008 the fine arts prize of the City of Vienna.
Dominik Steiger lives and works in Vienna.
