Wolfgang Eberhard Stoerchle[1] (born Störchle; January 17, 1944 – March 14, 1976) was a German-American conceptual artist known for influential performance and video works made in Southern California in the 1970s.
[2] Stoerchle was born in Titisee-Neustadt, Germany, during World War II.
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.
[5] In 1972, Stoerchle made a controversial performance at the Pomona College Museum of Art in which he urinated on a rug in the gallery.
[6] Backlash to the performance from the college's more socially conservative administration led to a mass resignation of the art faculty.